Quotes about window
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Source: Speak
“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.”
Source: Jayber Crow
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
“A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.”
Source: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 13
Source: Gone with the Wind
Source: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
“Let me fall out of the window/
With confetti in my hair”
Source: Lyrics of Tom Waits: The Early Years, 1971-1983
“I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train…”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see, —painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke; afterwards, when they come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they understand them, and are willing to let the words go; for, at any time, they can use words as good when occasion comes. If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak. When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish. When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
“Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.”
Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World
Source: Collected Poems, 1943-2004
Context: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys,
And spirited from sleep, the astounded soul
Hangs for a moment bodiless and simple
As false dawn.
Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.
Source: All the Pretty Horses (1992)
Context: He thought he'd be an object of some curiosity but the people he saw only nodded gravely to him and passed on. He carried the bucket back into the store and went down the street to where there was a small cafe and he entered and sat at one of the three small wooden tables. The floor of the cafe was packed mud newly swept and he was the only customer. He stood the rifle against the wall and ordered huevos revueltos and a cup of chocolate and he sat and waited for it to come and then he ate very slowly. The food was rich to his taste and the chocolate was made with canela and he drank it and ordered another and folded a tortilla and ate and watched the horses standing in the square across the street and watched the girls. They'd hung the gazebo with crepe and it looked like a festooned brush-pile. The proprietor showed him great courtesy and brought him fresh tortillas hot from the comal and told him that there was to be a wedding and that it would be a pity if it rained. He inquired where he might be from and showed surprise he'd come so far. He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
Source: The Miracle of Forgiveness
Source: Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Source: The Blind Assassin
“I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.”
“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows”
“You know,” Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
Source: Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven”
Clary and Luke, pg. 415
Variant: "Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out of the car window if you feel like it."
Luke laughed. "I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever."
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
"Vesalius in Zante (1564)" http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/whartpoe2.htm#Vesalius%20in%20Zante.%20(1564), in North American Review (November 1902), p. 625
Source: Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
Source: Looking for Jake and Other Stories
“They say the eyes are the window to the soul.”
Source: A Mango-Shaped Space
“When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.”
Source: Lighthousekeeping (2004)
Context: You say we are not one, you say truly there are two of us. Yes, there were two of us, but we were one. As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.
“One person sees the beautiful view and the other sees the dirty window”
Source: Being Happy!
Source: Catch-22 (1961)
Context: Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably.... It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.
Source: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you”
Source: Lyrics: 1962-2001
“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
~ Ogden Nash”
“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”
Source: Message in a Bottle
Source: Clockwork Angel
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Source: Lush
Source: The Gift
“God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.”
Source: Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Source: Girl, Interrupted
Source: Magic Rises
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Variant: But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.'
Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.
Source: Mockingjay
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Preface, 1928
The Story of San Michele (1929)
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“Each window like a pill'ry appears,
With heads thrust thro' nail'd by the ears.”
Canto III, line 391
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
Variant: It’s a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, "Momma, do we believe in winter?
Along Came a Dog (1958)
Quotes, 1881 - 1890, Letter to Maurice Beaubourg', August 1890
As quoted in: 'The artist, his life and his epoch' (excerpt), Ionel Jianou, 1964; for the Zadkine Research Center https://www.zadkine.com/writing
1960 - 1968
December “A ROOST FOR CHICKENS”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)