Window Quotes - Page 13

• I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Crazy, Moving, Past

  "Seriously...I'm Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, 2011.

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• When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Halloween, Kids, Rocks

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• It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Clothes, Addiction, Dresses

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

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• 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

  Dad, World, Care

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

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• Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

  Celine Dion

  Dream, People, Details

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• Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Writing, Eight, Ideas

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• Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

  Roger Ebert

  Hangover, Drunk, Trying

  Roger Ebert's review of "Smashed", www.rogerebert.com. October 17, 2012.

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• Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

  Dave Eggers

  Tree, Yards, Bathroom

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.1, Pan Macmillan

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• I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

  Rupert Everett

  Thinking, Microsoft, Firsts

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• I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

  Edie Falco

  Women, Together, Dirt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

  Frances Farmer

  Lying, Dark, Night

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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• I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.

  Megan Fox

  Car, Looks, Truck

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

  Stephen Fry

  World, Tvs

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• Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

  Paul Fussell

  Native American, College, People

  Paul Fussell (1984). “Class”

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• Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Journey, Other Worlds

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

  Frank Gehry

  Father, Creativity, Stuff

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• I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else.

  Al Gore

  Light, Pumps, Heat

  "What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?". Interview With John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Back Alleys, Egypt, Tv Shows

  "Gilbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus, I'll look out the window and say, 'OK, there's the Tower of London, there's Buckingham Palace, there's Big Ben,' and if it all takes about five minutes, perfect. I've seen all of it and I can go home.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Country, Home, People

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• I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

  Kathy Griffin

  Party, Tickets, World

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• Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Moving, Garden, Trying

  "The joy of simply faffing around" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2008.

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• There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Impulse Control, Childhood, Bipolar

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• As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

  Douglas Horton

  Fear, Doors, Heaven

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• Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

  Douglas Horton

  Evil, Spirit, Curtains

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• I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Dog, Teenage

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