Window famous quotes
05-01-2025
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
-- A. A. Gill -
I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.
-- A. J. McLean -
Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
-- Alan Ball -
I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.
-- Alan Ball -
If we build more windows and fewer walls, we will have more friends.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
-- Alexander Smith -
When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.
-- Alfred Austin -
The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.
-- Ally Carter -
As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.
-- Andre Benjamin -
I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
-- Andrea Gibson -
Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.
-- Angelina Jolie -
Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.
-- Anthony Anderson -
Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.
-- Anya Seton -
All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
-- Archie Shepp -
I could never throw Love out of the window.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
We found the future, like birds fly into windows.
-- Austin Kleon -
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
-- Barry Bonds -
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
-- Bela Lugosi -
Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows.
-- Bernard Nathanson -
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
-- Bill Joy -
You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.
-- Bill Vaughan -
And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches...
-- Billy Collins -
When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.
-- Billy Ocean -
Microsoft unapologetically will make sure ActiveX works best on Windows
-- Bob Muglia -
Janetty tried to dive through the window to escape, what an act of cowardice.
-- Bobby Heenan -
I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.
-- Boomer Esiason -
Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done.
-- Brad Pitt -
Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.
-- Bradley Cooper -
Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
Twitter is your window to relevance , but Facebook is your home page for the Social Web
-- Brian Solis -
Lord, let me write, leave me autistic and typing until my windows bust into a thousand silver doves and I know the poem is done.
-- Buddy Wakefield -
Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!
-- Burt Ward -
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
-- Burton Rascoe -
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
-- Buster Keaton -
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
-- C. F. Powell -
I mean . . . who was it that said if the door is locked, find a window. If the windows locked, well . . . break it. If it won't break then find a freaking sledgehammer and make a new one.
-- C.C. Hunter -
Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.
-- Carol Grace -
You know,†Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window.
-- Cassandra Clare -
A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.
-- Cesar Millan -
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.
-- Charles Dance -
The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new things.
-- Charles Duhigg -
That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
-- Dani Shapiro -
Why am I always looking at life through a window?
-- Daniel Keyes -
One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.
-- Daniil Kharms -
In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight...
-- David Rakoff -
Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors.
-- David Wolpe -
A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!
-- Dev Patel -
Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.
-- Dianne Wiest -
Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.
-- Dick Francis -
Cartoons are windows into the human condition,
-- Doug Marlette -
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing.
-- Douglas Adams -
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
-- Douglas Horton -
Players get a window of opportunity. Quarterbacks, specifically, usually get one.
-- Drew Henson -
The heart can only be broken / once, like a window.
-- Eduardo C. Corral -
Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.
-- Eduardo Saverin -
My favorite journey is looking out the window.
-- Edward Gorey -
When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.
-- Elin Hilderbrand -
Please come back soon. The window is always open.
-- Elizabeth Wein -
You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.
-- Ellsworth Kelly -
But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.
-- Eminem -
I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.
-- Emma Lazarus -
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
My favorite...continues to be Kevin Zraly's 'Windows on the World'...
-- Frank J. Prial -
I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.
-- Frederic Joliot-Curie -
Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The trouble with the transfer window is it creates a window where transfers have to be done
-- Gary Neville -
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
-- George Edward Moore -
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
-- George Orwell -
I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.
-- Geraldine Laybourne -
My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
-- Gloria Swanson -
You’re unbelievable,’ said Rosie. ‘Look at me when I’m talking.’ I kept looking out the window. I was already over-stimulated. ‘I know what you look like.
-- Graeme Simsion -
Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.
-- Gregory Corso -
I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.
-- Guillermo del Toro -
The window of heaven is what all truth seekers are trying to open.
-- Harold Klemp -
The book should act as a window to the word.
-- Harry Duncan -
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.
-- Haruki Murakami -
When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window.
-- Helen Rowland -
The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.
-- Herb Kelleher -
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
-- Isaac Asimov -
To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.
-- Ivan Panin -
The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.
-- Jack Johnson -
Maybe 50 or 60 percent of all divorces are predicated on someone's being physically unfit. Who wants to live with negativism? Love goes out the window.
-- Jack LaLanne -
I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.
-- Jamelia -
I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.
-- James Badge Dale -
I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.
-- James Richardson -
Your website is the window of your business. Keep it fresh, keep it exciting.
-- Jay Conrad Levinson -
If there isn't a parking space out front or I can't see my car from the window, we're eating somewhere else.
-- Jay Leno
