“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
John Greenleaf Whittier My Psalm
My Psalm, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
"Something Good This Way Comes"
Seeing Things (2008)
Context: Got my window open wide
Got a good woman by my side
I got a good woman by my side 'Cause I know
Something good this way comes.
“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
John Greenleaf Whittier My Psalm
My Psalm, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
Half of My Heart
Song lyrics, Battle Studies (2009)
Source: John Mayer - Battle Studies
Context: I was born in the arms of imaginary friends,
Free to roam, made a home out of everywhere I've been.
Then you come crashing in, like the realest thing,
Trying my best to understand all that your love can bring.Oh half of my heart's got a grip on the situation;
Half of my heart takes time.
Half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you
That I can't keep loving you (can't keep loving you)
Oh, with half of my heart.
“I often got a belt from my mother with a wet dish cloth for kicking a ball through a window.”
Colm O'Rourke (1957) Irish Gaelic football player, journalist and businessman
A disagreement with Oisín McConville over the best gifts to give loved ones at half-time during the 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. Quoted in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/tv-view-dublin-look-towards-seventh-heaven-as-mayo-s-hell-lingers-on-1.4441949 in December 2020
“I see you standing on the other side.
I don't know how the river got so wide.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
" Tower Of Song http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/leonard+cohen/tower+of+song_20082815.html" - Tower of Song with U2, Video http://vimeo.com/13286028 <br class="br">I'm Your Man (1988) <br class="br">Context: p>I see you standing on the other side.<br>I don't know how the river got so wide.<br>I loved you, baby, way back when.<br>And all the bridges are burning that<br>We might have crossed and I feel so close to everything that we've lost.<br>We'll never, we'll never have to lose it again.Now I bid You farewell, I don't when I'll be back.<br>They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track.<br>But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone.<br>I'll speaking to you sweetly<br>From a window in the Tower Of Song</p
Boris Karloff (1887–1969) English actor
This is your Life Boris Karloff https://archive.org/details/TIYL_Boris_Karloff (1957)
“I got a woman way over town,
That's good to me, Oh yeah!”
Ray Charles (1930–2004) American musician
"I Got a Woman", written with Renald Richard (1954)
Wei Wu Wei (1895–1986) writer
Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)