Best hundred & window Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You know, I think the novel keeps redefining the world we live in. What you should look for in a novel is a window nobody else is looking out of, that nobody else can look through. What you look for is a voice. You pick up a novel by someone such as Faulkner or Hemingway and you just read three pages and you know who wrote it. And that's what one should demand of a novelist.”

People Thinking Knows World Should Years Wells Looks Has Beens Two Happens Three Voice Wonder Novel Demand Pages Picks Hundred Window Novelists Redefining

Author:Mordecai Richler

“If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.”

Ifs Men Firsts Humans Opinion Five Genius Conversation Hundred First Time Window League Naples

Author:Madame de Stael

“Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.”

Source: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

“The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.”

Ifs Years Night Sides Rooms Numbers Greater Hundred Window Shining Palaces

Book:Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

“One has, you know, a window of opportunity somewhere between zip and a hundred to solve, or understand, or penetrate, or appreciate, or come to terms with the conundrum of being, this amazing circumstance in which we find ourselves, both individually and collectively.”

Knows Opportunity Term Circumstances Hundred Appreciate Window Solve Penetrate Zips Window Of Opportunity Conundrums

Author:Terence McKenna

“I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?”

Littles Moving Walks Thousand Six Hundred Window Towns Little Towns Suvs

Author:Kelly Reichardt

“He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself. A hundred miles of it, so suddenly. Solitude, even among the meshes of this war, can when it wishes so take him by the blind gut and touch, as now, possessively. Pirate's again some other side of a window, watching strangers eat breakfast.”

War Lost Wish Sides Morning Solitude Hundred Window Blind Hunger Stranger Miles Guts Breakfast Thick Sunlight Pirate Bananas Mesh Wallowing Plenitude

Book:Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.”

Ideas Fun Five Feet Arms Hundred Window Wings Ducks Jumping Bronze Flapping

Author:Rick Riordan

“The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.”

Men Want Giving Trying Looks Ideas Next Bits Walks Half Sea Fields Six Hundred Window Size Miles No Idea Thirty Fifty Far Away Heels Yards High Heels Giving Directions

Author:Marian Keyes

“Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dhampir. Why are you reading Tolkien?' I shrugged, then had to dodge the potted geranium he threw at me. 'After five hundred years, you've read just about everything. Besides, he had hella world-building skills.”

World Years Eye Reading Five Building Couple Skills Hundred Window Thirds Golden Dodge Fudge Ledges Golden Eye

Author:Karen Chance

“Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.”

Littles Different Seems Together Pieces Color Fit Hundred Window Glasses Mood Thoughtful Different Colors Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Book:Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

“And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.”

Hands Faces Vision Streets Hundred Window Murder Smoke Tea Lifts Yellow Plates Slides Toasts Indecision Revision Window Panes

Book:The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

Source: The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

“I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.”

Children Silence Knowing Minutes Arms Hundred Red Window Twenties Glasses Tiny Odd Knees Halls Curtains Crowded Velvet Only Child

Book:Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

Source: Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

“...she still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if there is no sound, the weight of a hundred seconds always turns her head.”

Ifs Stills Turns Causes Sound Minutes Couple Hundred Window Weight Passing Passings Seconds Glances Truck

Book:Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

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