Window Quotes

• The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was "Deeds not Words," and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.

  

  Sarah Gavron
  • House
  • Action
  • Film

• Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example -- it is the world's best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem. That means at times we'll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.

  

  Satya Nadella
  • World
  • Party
  • Mean

• A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Fire
  • Tree
  • Pity

• Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All these strangers have more money than you do All the good riffs have been taken And everyone is so scared Murder is commonplace I don't even flinch at the gunshots outside my window I feel lonely without them

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Long
  • Taken
  • Lonely

• I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.

  

  William Gibson
  • Trying
  • Grace
  • Scene

• It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Window
  • Boundaries
  • Unpredictability

• People make things happen. All the rest is just window dressing.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Rest
  • Happen

• A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

  

  Stewart Brand
  • Need
  • Library
  • Window

• There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Soul
  • Black
  • Energy

• I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Today
  • Funny
  • Humor

• We all know how cats feel about traveling in a car. You never see a cat with his head out the window, fur flying in the breeze. A cat is never anyone's designated driver.

  

  Nicole Hollander
  • Cat
  • Window
  • Traveling

• Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • inspirational
  • Intelligent
  • Invisible

• Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Answers
  • Argument
  • Irresponsible

• I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Together
  • Management
  • Window

• The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse.

  

  Charles Lever
  • Book
  • College
  • Party

• The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Situation
  • Common
  • Speed

• Don't all morals go out the window if they're hot enough?

  

  Natalie
  • Moral
  • Enough
  • Hot

• Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

  

  Katherine Catmull
  • Sometimes
  • See
  • Right

• I'm just trying to get a window seat on the way to Hell.

  

  Willam Belli
  • Trying
  • Window
  • Seats

• The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.

  

  Chris Bachelder
  • Enjoy
  • Window
  • Extraordinary

• When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Believe
  • Sound
  • Window

• Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Sleep
  • Cat
  • Piano

• In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry.

  

  Ray Dandridge
  • Three
  • Weekends
  • Someplace

• Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.

  

  Delia Smith
  • Memories
  • Window
  • Fallible

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