Quotes with window-panes

Quotes 21 till 40 of 66.

  • Arthur Rimbaud I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Ben Lovett I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas J. Peters If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Buster Keaton If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
    As Calveros Partner in Limelight (1952)
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  • Bela Lugosi In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Raymond Chandler It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Carol Shields Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Bruce Dickinson Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ogden Nash Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Jean Kerr Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • Franz Kafka May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Bill Walton Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Henry Miller No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Billy Wilder Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Marcel Proust Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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