Window Quotes - Page 37

• Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they don’t rattle your windows and nerves with indiscriminate sonic booms just because they can?

  Rabih Alameddine

  Needs, Nerves, Bombs

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• Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

  Andy Warhol

  Happiness, Beautiful, White

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

  Carol Burnett

  Women, People, Dinner

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• There’s a window of opportunity with every girl and once that passes it becomes impossible to bang.

  Roosh V

  Girl, Opportunity, Bangs

  "30 Bangs: The Shaping Of One Man's Game From Patient Mouse To Rabid Wolf". Book by Roosh V, March 7, 2012.

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• Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.

  David Fincher

  Psychology, Cameras, Actors

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• My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.

  Katha Pollitt

  Daughter, Block, War

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time”, p.46, Random House

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• Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?

  Tom Waits

  Clothes, Jumping, Stills

  Song: Who Are You, Album: Bone Machine

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• Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

  Alan Sokal

  Believe, Science, Law

  Alan D. Sokal (2008). “Beyond the hoax: science, philosophy and culture”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sister, Mother, Sleep

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• The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.

  David Miliband

  Change, Opportunity, Climate

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• A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Christmas, Phones, Doubt

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.132, Verso

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• Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the windows of a room and that belongs to the room. The sun does not realize how beautiful it is until after a room is made. A man’s creation, the making of a room, is nothing short of a miracle. Just think, that a man can claim a slice of the sun.

  Louis Kahn

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

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• Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing.

  Laozi

  Yoga, Heaven, May

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

  Rumi

  Loyalty, Yoga, Doors

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing individual inside and it's the universal code for "I'm O. K. - You're O. K., too!"

  Denis Waitley

  Smile, Caring, Light

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• In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Teacher, School

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• When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mother, Daughter, Dad

  Frederick Buechner (1988). “Whistling in the dark: an ABC theologized”, Harpercollins

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• Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Mirrors, Wealth, Materials

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2015). “Heirs of the King: Living the Beatitudes”, p.33, Discovery House

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• If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

  Ronnie Barker

  Sides, Cleaning, Wealth

  Ronnie Barker (2013). “Fork Handles: The Bery Vest of Ronnie Barker”, p.127, Random House

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• And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is buring?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Wind, Lamps

  Gustave Flaubert (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)”, p.147, Delphi Classics

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• It has passed over mountain ranges and
  The waters of the seven seas.
  It has shown upon laborers in the fields,
  Into the windows of homes,
  And shops, and factories.
  
  It has beheld cities with gleaming towers,
  And also the hovels of the poor.
  It has been witness to both good and evil,
  The works of honest men and women and
  The conspiracy of knaves.
  
  It has seen marching armies, bomb-blasted villages
  And "the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
  Now, unsullied from its tireless journey,
  It comes to us,
  Messenger of the morning.
  Harbinger of a new day.

  Clinton Lee Scott

  Morning, Home, Army

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• Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Boredom, Trying, Infinity

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• O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
  Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn
  Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
  Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!
  
  The hills tell each other, and the listening
  Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned
  Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth,
  And let thy holy feet visit our clime.
  
  Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds
  Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste
  Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls
  Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

  William Blake

  Morning, Spring, Eye

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.18, Delphi Classics

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• The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

  Arthur Miller

  Carpe Diem, Bombs, Tick

  1964 Quentin. After the Fall, act1.

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• The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that it is quiet. Its quietness makes it seem perfect. The ripples are like the slates of a blind of a shutter through which we see imperfectly what is perfect. Though that other world can be seen only momentarily, it looks everlasting. As the ripples become more agitated, the window darkens and the other world is hidden.the surface of the river is like a living soul, which is easy to disturb, is often disturbed, but, growing calm, shows what it was, is, and will be.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Other Worlds, Rivers

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