Window Quotes - Page 12

• For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

  Mitch Albom

  Book, Years, Office

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• I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

  Alan Ball

  Thinking, Soul, Sexuality

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• Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

  Alan Ball

  World, Environment, Artificial

  "American Ball: 'Beauty' screenwriter mining his past". Interview with Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. October 8, 1999.

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• Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Lying, Player

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Music, Cat, Glasses

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire”

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• There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Character, Play, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  Samuel Beckett

  Use, Body, Ifs

  Malone Dies (1958) p. 44

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• I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

  Max Beerbohm

  Eye, Window To The Soul, Needs

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

  Robert Benchley

  Time, Evil, Justice

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

  John Berger

  Art, Italian, Space

  "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

  Joe Biden

  Home, Kids, Views

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• When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Book, Secret, Usual

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

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• There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

  Dan Brown

  Stress, Car, Stressed

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• When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Tattoo, New York, Stars

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• The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

  Billy Campbell

  New York, Real, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Pistols, Strange, Influence

  Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health.

  Richard Carmona

  Children, Father, Heart

  "Childhood Obesity: Fighting for the Future Health of America’s Youth" by Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2010.

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• The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.

  Margaret Chan

  Opportunity, Community, Preparedness

  "Influenza A(H1N1)". www.who.int. April 29, 2009.

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• I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

  Margaret Cho

  Reflection, Mirrors, Trying

  "You Are Not Ugly, So Don’t Make Those ‘Am I Ugly?’ Videos" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2012.

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• I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

  Gail Collins

  Optimistic, Past, Flying Cars

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• Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

  Marie Corelli

  Summer, Sunshine, Two

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• The dogs did bark, the children screamed,
  Up flew the windows all;
  And every soul bawled out, Well done!
  As loud as he could bawl.

  William Cowper

  Dog, Children, Soul

  William Cowper, “The Diverting History Of John Gilpin, Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, And Came Safe Home Again”

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• I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. 'I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on... ' And I've got blinds in my flat!

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Home, Opposites, Shirts

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• I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

  Louis C. K.

  Past, Thinking, People

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• It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.

  Jonathan Davis

  Want, Might, Poison

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