Window Quotes - page 2

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. (Ani DiFranco)
I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window. View quote
Alice Munro
The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now. View quote
Don DeLillo
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. View quote
John Cheever
Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, 'Are you full inside' Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, 'I am quite full inside that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.' View quote
Charles Lamb
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. View quote
Arthur Rimbaud
If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first. View quote
Dan Abnett
Old habits can't be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxeddown the stairs one step at a time. View quote
Mark Twain
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. View quote
Benjamin Jowett
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. (Franz Kafka)
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. View quote
Franz Kafka
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. View quote
Bela Lugosi
To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color. View quote
Ken Follett
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. View quote
Grandma Moses
At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there. View quote
Donald Pleasence
Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it. View quote
Anthony Anderson
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window. View quote
Ajay Naidu
One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world. View quote
Ron Chernow
But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest! (Camille Claudel)
And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company. View quote
Paulo Coelho
It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark. View quote
Ayn Rand
He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done. View quote
Ayn Rand
I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research--I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories... View quote
Ozzy Osbourne