
“I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.”
From her obituary in Century Magazine
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.”
From her obituary in Century Magazine
“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.”
Source: How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004), Ch. 1 : It All Started with a Boy, p. 16
Context: I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life — drama, pathos and humor.
The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
Context: Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
“I’ve always looked at life through the lens of a non-Filipino.”
Yahoo! News Philippines Interview (2020)
Herschel Browning Chip (1968, p. 271).
1930s, "Conversations avec Picasso," 1934–35
“The Bible is a window in this prison-world, through which we may look into eternity.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 29.