Window Quotes - Page 40

• To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.

  Julian Huxley

  Wall, Science, Keys

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• ...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Habit, Human Life

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• I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad.

  Philip Larkin

  Fear, Long, Mad

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Poesía reunida”, p.279, LUMEN

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• Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse of the minds of the sages - a glimpse of course. It will open a window so you can see the faraway distant Himalayas. And then an urge arises in you, and you start travelling.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Real, Moving

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• This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.

  Satya Nadella

  Running, Powerful, Opportunity

  "Satya Nadella: WPC 2014 Keynote". news.microsoft.com. July 16, 2014.

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• Learn to love the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.

  Lowell L. Bennion

  Rain, Fall, Sunset

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• Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Electric Shock, Discipline

  "The PWOT Bill Gates Interview". Interview with Andrew Lephter, slated.org. April 5, 2008.

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• I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

  Gareth Bale

  Football, Thinking, Play

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• How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?

  Jonathan Lethem

  Summer, Thinking, Sky

  Jonathan Lethem (2003). “The Fortress of Solitude”, Large Print Press

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• The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Glasses, House, Church

  ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN (1956). “THE SIGNIFIANCE OF THE CHURCH”

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• I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.

  Yves Klein

  Bars, Lines, Painting

  Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted.

  Gene Spafford

  Jobs, Smoking, Abuse

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• I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes through the coil. The result was spectacular-a deafening explosion, the apparatus disappeared, all windows were blown in or out, a wall caved in, and thus ended my pioneering experiment on liquid hydrogen cooled coils!

  Nicholas Kurti

  Wall, Science, Expectations

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• I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

  Frederic Joliot-Curie

  Science, Important, Should

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• I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

  Susan Rothenberg

  Art, Thinking, Environment

  "The Studio". The ART21 Interview, art21.org. 2005.

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• Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the law of tithing.

  David A. Bednar

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Illumination

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• The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.

  Eileen Myles

  Sex, Mean, Past

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• They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

  Henry Bromell

  Dream, Window To The Soul, Nuts

  "Northern Exposure". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990 - 1995.

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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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• My daily Nespresso coffee, an unexpected shaft of sunlight through the window on a winter's day, my bargain Missoni sunglasses (70 percent off!)

  Sophie Kinsella

  Grateful, Coffee, Winter

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• We've got something special going here. We want to keep it going. You don't have many opportunities like this, and the window of opportunity for us is now.

  Drew Brees

  Football, Inspiration, Opportunity

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• I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.

  Dawn Fraser

  Sports, Training, Lasts

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• Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

  Lance Morrow

  Clarity, Abstinence, Mates

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• The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take specific bold actions which they ordinarily believe would not otherwise be possible or politically acceptable...In effect, envisaged solutions can become rapidly translated into practical options for action following a major disaster or near-miss.

  John Beddington

  Believe, Opportunity, Impact

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• We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer...So we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day of record in Washington, or close to it...we went in the night before and opened all the windows...so that the air conditioning wasn't working inside the room.

  Tim Wirth

  Summer, Night, Weather

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