“The White House comes out and says it's going to do a major study of the effects on preschool-age children using Ritalin, Prozac and other drugs. I know in advance what the study's going to say. The results are in before they even start. They're going to do a window-dressing control while praising the overall need for the drugs. In the end they're going to try to peddle more drugs than before while making us think they're clamping down; that's my guess.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsTryingChildrenEndsAgeHouseWhiteResultsStudyEffectsDrugMajorsWindowPraiseWhite HouseDressingsProzacPreschoolRitalinWindow Dressing Author:Michael Savage
“I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.” IfsSawsWindow Author:Jesse Ball
“Don't you guys, like when you're driving at night and you're like, and you can kind of see through the window and you think, oh that looks so cozy in there. I wish I could like get a free pass. Yeah, so that's probably the one I'd pick. I'd be a total creeper but.” ThinkingLooksKindNightGuyWishPicksWindowYeahDrivingCozyCreepers Author:Rachel McAdams
“Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.” WorldNeedsFeelsYearsFirstsIdeasWarGovernmentRunningCertainVoiceEconomyGoneEconomicCenturyColdOrdinaryAspectStonesWindowBillsClintonConservativeSurfaceLibertarianArguingPlanningSocialismRollingDominantCold War20th CenturyRolling StonesMarket EconomyBlahDissidentsCentralization Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.” PeopleIdeasForceDoorsMaterialsShapesWindowWindows And Doors Author:Werner Herzog
“Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders were not widely available. There was no cassette tape back then. It was a Sears Roebuck tape machine. I put a microphone in the window and recorded the ambience.” IdeasWindowMachinesAvailableAccessMotivatedTapeInitialsMicrophonesRecordersCassettesSearsAmbienceCassette Tapes Author:Pauline Oliveros
“There have been times I thought that when I got a certain point in the story, a certain character was going to do a certain thing, only to get to that point and have the character make clear that he or she doesn't want to do that at all. That long phone conversation I thought the character was going to have? He hangs up the phone before the other person answers, and twenty pages of dialog I had half written in my head go out the window.” WantPersonsLongHas BeensCharacterStoriesCertainAnswersHalfClearWrittenConversationPagesWindowTwentiesPhonesHang Ups Author:Steve Erickson
“It's just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don't even leave that apartment. I have just enough: a little bed, a little kitchen with two pots. I make some tea and I look out the window or just lay down.” LooksLittlesTwoEnoughMiddleBedWindowLaysBoxesTeaKitchenPotApartmentBrooklynForts Author:Erykah Badu
“Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a church links to a story, brands have the potential to build holistic identities.” StoriesChurchReligiousPracticeAliveIdentityWindowGlassesDrivenStorytellingBrandsLinksIconsHymnsHolisticStained GlassReligious PracticesStained Glass Windows Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon.” IfsStillsAbleSoundReligiousPiecesImagineColorPagesUniqueSingingRootsWindowGlassesPatternsSmellBrandsDevicesBottlesTornIconsCoca ColaStained GlassStained Glass WindowsShards Of Glass Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere.” FactsRoomsSecurityTypeWindowCornersAbsenceHotelLockedLocksFairytaleHotel RoomsStorylinePasswords Author:Martin Lindstrom
“It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.” AirWindowLuxuryEmpiresConditioningBarbariansRoman EmpireAir ConditioningRoman Civilization Author:Garrison Keillor
“I put out my hand to shake hands with Zero Mostel, and he took my hand [and] he pulled me up to his face, and he gave me a kiss on the lips. And all my nervousness went out the window.” HandsFacesKissingWindowLipsShakesZeroNervousness Author:Gene Wilder
“I used to stay at my hotel... I remember looking out of the window once and I saw (GB boxers) Tom Stalker and Kal Yafai skipping out of the Premier Inn and they jumped into a Range Rover to go to training.” RememberUsedSawsTrainingWindowRangeHotelTomsBoxersInnsRange Rover Author:Anthony Joshua
“Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers in a rush-hour train which has stopped between stations for three centuries. And they all hate one another. And they're all crushed together waving their national flags, clanking their national chains, jabbering their national language.” LittlesCountryTogetherHateThreeLanguageHoursSeaCenturyEuropeStandingWindowTrainShouldersChainsStationsFlagsCrushedPassengersRush HourNational Language Author:Quentin Crisp
“We're creating a TV show of Scrooge, starring Jamie Farr, with Buddy Hackett as Scrooge. We're shooting in this Victorian set for weeks, and Hackett is pissed all the time, angry that he's not the center of attention, and finally we get to the scene where we've gotta shoot him at the window, saying, "Go get my boots," or whatever. The set is stocked with Victorian extras and little children in Oliver kind of outfits, and the director says, "All right, Bud - just give it whatever you want." And Hackett goes off on a rant. Unbelievably obscene.” WantGivingKindChildrenLittlesShowsAttentionWeekTvsSceneDirectorsCreatingWindowAngryShootingExtrasBootsTv ShowsBuddyBudVictorianObsceneOutfitsJamieRantScroogeCenter Of Attention Author:Bill Murray
“I didn't want [actress] just to be a woman standing at the window, waving hello and goodbye to men as they came and went in the world that they were struggling through. I wanted her to have a true function.” MenWorldWantWantedStruggleStandingWindowFunctionActressesGoodbyeHello Author:Sergio Leone
“The only reason I would call the police is if someone is getting aggressed in the street and I'm behind a window.” IfsReasonBehindsStreetsWindowPolice Author:Gaspar Noe
“Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.” Has BeensJobsPoliticalGivenWhiteWindowMachinesFunctionDressingsWindow Dressing Author:Malcolm X
“All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.” WantFeelsMindKindPlayNiceDoorsWindowStormMonstersBe KindBeing Nice Author:Regina Spektor
“Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as evidence now exists, perhaps within a window of 50-100,000 years ago, a flick of an eye in evolutionary time.” YearsHumansEyeFoundModernEvidenceYears AgoWindow Author:Noam Chomsky
“On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.” WayMayHandsAbleDoorsWindowPotWindows And Doors Author:George Carlin
“I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.” WayTryingYearsTwoFormWatchesGraceMonthsPeriodsSceneLosingMy FriendsWindowMachinesSellsEightLabelsFasterParisTwo YearsMechanismPunkPrimitiveSixtyRefinedClumsySeattleRunway Author:William Gibson
“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?” IfsChildrenWomenWatchesHistoryGenerationsWindowMemorableMy GenerationRaindropsWindow Panes Author:Jackie Kennedy
“You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.” IfsWindow Author:Julie Taymor
“I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.” ThinkingI CanCareWindowDislikeTacticsMarketplaceMicrosoftOperating Systems Author:Linus Torvalds
“I'll remember the view out this window [from Oval Cabinet], because this is where we had our - the playground that we put in when Malia and Sasha came in. Being able every once in awhile to look out the window and see your daughters during the summer, swinging on that swing set, that made the presidency a little bit sweeter.” LooksLittlesMadeAbleRememberBitsViewsSummerLittle BitDaughterWindowSwingsPresidencyCabinetsPlaygroundsOur DaughterYour DaughterOvalSwing Sets Author:Barack Obama
“Something like Windows is still an unbelievable asset but because the world is somewhat phone-centric, it's an asset that has to be managed very carefully to make sure that it's extended, and there are very interesting things that are being done with that.” WorldStillsDoneInterestingWindowPhonesAssetsUnbelievableVery InterestingInteresting ThingsBeing Done Author:Bill Gates
“Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.” MenLoveMayLongHomeHouseMarriageLong TimeWindowDatingMemorableBuyingShopsWeddingFunny MarriageMarryingFunny LoveAdmiringWedding MarriageWedding SpeechFunny WeddingGreat WeddingMarriage JokesFunny Marriage AdviceFunny Wedding AdviceInspirational WeddingShop WindowsLong MarriageWedding PhrasesBuying SomethingBuying In Book:The Snake Has All the Lines Source: The Snake Has All the Lines
“If you and I took a walk down a shopping street in Jo'burg or Cape Town or London, we see two guys looking in a shop window, we think, "Oh, they're wondering what they're going to buy." A cop looks at them and thinks, "Why are they standing there? Are they doing a drug deal? Are they going to mug someone? Are they going to rob the shop?"” IfsThinkingLooksTwoGuyWalksDealsWonderStreetsDrugStandingWindowTownsLondonShopsShoppingCopStanding ThereCapesMugTwo GuysCape TownShop Windows Author:Peter James
“The Republican establishment, the Democrat establishment agree and accept that the media is an equal player in the ruling class. Trump has blown all of that out the window. As such, the normal ways that people in politics are controlled, the normal way that people are contained - the ways people are promoted, punished, destroyed, what have you - are all out the window where Trump is concerned. And therefore the media is considered by the ruling class to be one of the great leveling factors.” PeopleWayAcceptingClassPlayerMediaTrumpRepublicanEqualNormalConcernedWindowAgreeDemocratFactorsDestroyedControlledEstablishmentRuling Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You have to shout in the kitchen to deliver the orders, to drive the troops, to get the food out. When you have a table of eight courses and everyone's having something different, you have a 15-second window to get it all together so no one at the table waits.” DifferentTogetherOrderCoursesWaitingWindowTablesEightKitchenTroops Author:Marco Pierre White
“Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsArtFormActorsGivenActingRolesLuckyMajorsPercentWindowProfessionCraftsAwardsBroadwayPercentagesAcademyUnemployedNominationsAcademy Awards Author:Viola Davis
“I am a Leo. I was born in August and I love the sunshine. I'm like a cat. We live in a very contemporary house with windows all around it. Wherever a sunspot is, I go to it with my yellow pad and my fountain pen and I write there.” WritingHouseBornCatWindowContemporarySunshinePensYellowFountainAugustPadsFountain PensSunspots Author:Mary Ann Hoberman
“I think that honesty in presenting the gospel goes out the window when you want people to respond to the message, but you are prepared to accept any sort of response. Of course, the only true response is heartfelt repentance and faith. However, if you don't feel the need to be honest in your presentation, then you will calibrate your presentation of the gospel to whatever gets the response you want.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsFeelsCoursesAcceptingHonestHonestyMessagesWindowPreparedResponseBeing HonestRepentancePresentationPresentingHeartfelt Author:Mark Dever
“No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low bone density, so I don't know if anyone really wants to put me in a cape and chuck me out a window. But a lot of my friends, who are great actors and who come from film, are doing TV because that's where the opportunities are. For us, it does feel like it's similar to making the movies that we used to make.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsDoeWould BeFilmUsedActorsOpportunityKnow HowDoorsTvsLowsMy FriendsWindowBonesSuperheroChuckGreat ActorsBangingCapesDensity Author:Winona Ryder
“I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever, just like everybody thought Newton had all the answers. And you probably read that, in the last of the 19th century, Harvard and others were discouraging people from going into physics because we have all the answers. And right after that, of course - we have - all this stuff is thrown out the window. And now we have whole new answers.” PeopleTryingFirstsWholeLastsCoursesStuffAnswersPrinciplesForeverCenturyWindowPhysicsThrownHarvardDiscouragingNewton19th Century Author:Charles Koch
“The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the script, you describe imagined scenes, but it's all suspended in mid-air. Often, an actor viewed against a wall or a landscape, or seen through a window, is much more eloquent than the lines you've given him. So then you take out the lines. This happens often to me and I end up saying what I want with a movement or a gesture.” IfsWantLooksEndsHappensActorsGivenLinesWrittenAirMovementWallScenePagesWindowCamerasStartingScriptsLandscapeFixedGesturesHighwaysEloquentStarting PointSuspended Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Sometimes storms come through with wind and blow the features off or sometimes they come in heavy and grow the features to the point where we have to shovel them off again. Leading up to the window for our event we try to get everything lined up and safe for the riders.” TryingSometimesGrowsEventsWindSafeWindowBlowHeavyStormFeaturesRidersShovels Author:Travis Rice
“For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsBelieveRealityWalksFictionFantasyAliveMysteryStreetsWindowScience FictionScaredMythologyVersionsBlockGenreTwilightClosestLampsMistSilhouettes Author:Brit Marling
“I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.” PeopleWindowDresses Author:Patti Smith
“Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.” LooksAmericaSpaceModernJudgingWindowAskingAstronautSpace Shuttle Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“You don't always get lucky enough to have songs that can breathe and shift meaning. But every once in a while you open up a window and something passes through. It's really nice for me when I discover those songs in my catalogue. It's one of the reasons I try not to get too specific about what my songs mean.” TryingMeanReasonEnoughSongNiceLuckyWindowBreatheReally NiceCatalogues Author:Denison Witmer
“Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden the pressure is off and they just bring themselves to the table.” WritingDoeKidsReadingExpressionWindowPressureTablesIndividualityDramaticReading And Writing Author:Emma Walton Hamilton
“We can open up our computers and Skype with someone, and we see them. It's like looking through a window. And we can surf the internet through our phones, and it's like our consciousness is far away. Or we can step through a airplane door and be in another continent a few hours away. So technology feels, to me, like the doors sort of already exist, at least emotionally.” FeelsHoursConsciousnessStepsTechnologyDoorsInternetComputerWindowPhonesAirplaneFar AwayContinentsSurfSkype Author:Mohsin Hamid
“On the whole, you can have a private life and be famous. But when milestones happen in your life like having children or getting married, privacy goes out of the window.” ChildrenWholeHappensMarriedWindowPrivacyPrivate LifeGetting MarriedHaving ChildrenMilestone Author:Jo Brand
“If [Pope's Francis] media-generated popularity, fragile as that may turn out to be when the world discovers that the pope is really a Catholic, opens windows of possibility for explaining that divine mercy leads us to the truths God revealed to us (and inscribed into the world and into us), then his reanimation of the papacy will advance the "Church in permanent mission" for which he called in Evangelii Gaudium, which is the grand strategy document of his pontificate.” IfsWorldMayTurnsChurchMediaPossibilityDivineWindowMercyCatholicStrategyMissionsPermanentFragilePopularityDocumentsPopeExplainingDivine Mercy Author:George Weigel
“The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a shop window display is a work of art. Just the way they make all kinds of things out of bamboo that are so ingenious. Just the way this little bamboo drain or latch is so beautiful. The masonry around the streams to hold the bank are beautiful - and not all one kind and not just cement.” WayKindLittlesArtBeautifulDifferencesWindowAll KindsStreamsShopsWorks Of ArtDisplayAccentsDrainsIngeniousCementMasonryBambooLatchesShop Windows Author:Jane Jacobs
“I've always felt like the most improvement you can make is from year 1 to year 2, much like a college freshman who the most improvement he can make in an entire one year of college football is going from year 1 freshman year to his sophomore year. Like a pro football player going from his rookie season to his second season. There's a window there that will never come again that you have a chance to making your biggest strides.” YearsFeltChancePlayerFootballCollegeWindowSeasonsImprovementStrideFootball PlayerFreshmanCollege FootballPro FootballSophomoreRookiesFreshman YearSophomore YearCollege Freshmen Author:Jim Harbaugh
“Hey, folks, look at all the damage that Bill Clinton has done to feminism. First, oral sex is not sex now. You got a Lewinsky, it isn't sex. And sexual harassment, you know what it used to be? All you had to have for sexual harassment was for a superior in your office to use his power to have his way with you, no matter whether you wanted it or not. Now that's out the window. Because we can't, of course, have Bill Clinton said to have engaged in sexual harassment. No way. Not gonna happen.” KnowsWayFirstsLooksSaidMatterDoneUseHappensWantedUsedCoursesSexFeminismOfficeWindowBillsClintonFolksSuperiorsUsed To BeHeyEngagedDamageHarassment Author:Rush Limbaugh