“As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.”
Book I, Ch. 14
Essais (1595), Book I
“Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.”
Part 1, 1919 - 1968 The Road to 24 Sussex Drive, p. 39
Memoirs (1993)
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Source: The Cream of the Jest (1917), Ch. 40 : Which Mr. Flaherty Does Not Quite Explain
Context: The Wardens of Earth sometimes unbar strange windows, I suspect — windows which face on other worlds than ours: and They permit this-or-that man to peer out fleetingly, perhaps, just for the joke's sake; since always They humorously contrive matters so this man shall never be able to convince his fellows of what he has seen or of the fact that he was granted any peep at all. The Wardens without fail arrange what we call — gravely, too — "some natural explanation."
Source: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
“The Bible is a window in this prison-world, through which we may look into eternity.”
Timothy Dwight IV
(1752–1817) American historian
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 29.
“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”
Source: Message in a Bottle
Paul Thurrott
(1966) American podcaster, author, and blogger
Welcome To Windows 8 http://web.archive.org/web/20120923004037/http://www.winsupersite.com:80/content1/topic/welcome-windows-8-144141/catpath/windows8/page/2 in Paul Thurrott's Supersite For Windows (20 September 2012)
