Quotes with window

  • Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
  • There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
  • George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The vision, determination, stamina, hope, relentlessness, and sheer work that are involved in staying afloat, much less succeeding, are the same whether you are running a window on 47th Street or Miramax Films or Microsoft.
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  • Mark Twain A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde A gentleman never looks out of the window.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anais Nin A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked…
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Denis Waitley A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Walt Whitman A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Walt Whitman A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Carlo Collodi A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Billy Wilder An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
    The Bright Side of Billy Wilder (1970)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Carl Sandburg Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Doug Horton As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Doug Horton Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Brooke Shields Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Shashi Tharoor Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.
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    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Mark Twain Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry James He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Alice Munro 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.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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