“Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.” WayMayHandsKidsAbleCertainEasyHurtPiecesDoorsMaterialsWindowCleverGrassPotPerformersIt HurtsMediocreHurt MeWindows And Doors Author:George Carlin
“There are people who say that if you are told that your house has fallen you don't ask what about the ceiling or what about the windows. The main thing is that this house, Africa, has fallen. Literature is just one aspect, pick any aspect of the situation.” PeopleIfsAsksLiteratureHouseSituationPicksAspectWindowFallenJust OneCeilings Author:Chinua Achebe
“I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.” WorldNeedsBelieveOrderOughtWindowMyopic Author:Maya Soetoro-Ng
“Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.” Has BeensAmericaFeltMy OwnStruggleChildhoodConflictWindowChiefsStrainMy Own Life Author:John Updike
“I want to create music that you can just vibe to. Put in your car and just you know like you roll all the windows up and you're like dancing and you just don't know why you're dancing but the music just makes you move.” KnowsWantMovingCarLike YouWindowDancing Author:Kerry James Marshall
“You hate evil, but you don't hate the people that do evil. So, hate has to go out the window.” PeopleHateEvilWindowDon't Hate Author:Alveda King
“Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.” NeedsBelieveCareUsedWorrySacrificePrayingWindowGreedTake CareBelieve In GodPersonal Needs Author:Alveda King
“For a lot of people, me included, abortion is murder. And it just becomes clearer and clearer the closer you get to birth. I mean, it's just so - I think if you had a womb with a window, it would never happen.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanHappensBirthWindowMurderAbortionWomb Author:Glenn Beck
“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingKindLongMadeHardStatesBodyKidsFeltDifficultSunCrazyConditionsObjectsStudentsWindPeriodsWindowSeasonsSickUniversityObservationGrandfatherFillingMy GrandfatherKoreanCrazy PeopleFilling UpUniversity StudentsSick Kids Author:Kim Hyesoon
“I don't understand people who say they're bored. Look out your window.” PeopleWindowBored Author:Karin Slaughter
“Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban farming.” WindowPlantUrbanFarming Author:Novella Carpenter
“I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a beautiful altar, artwork, and stained-glass windows. Together they create an environment conducive to worship and contemplation. We are not in church for entertainment, but to worship.” ThinkingGivingTogetherBeautifulChurchEnvironmentBuildingWorshipMusic IsWindowStriveContemplation Author:Dave Brubeck
“The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essentially say there is no difference between information operations, public affairs and psychological operations. They have a new name for that too, it's called Information Engagement. What I hope people take away from this is that it's a window into a larger phenomenon. After a decade of Iraq war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.” PeopleTryingWarRunningEffortOpinionTearsWallWindowAffairPsychologicalPropagandaPhenomenonFrighteningManipulateIraq War Author:Michael Hastings
“My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.” MenKindRealArtistFallFailingWindow Author:Edward Sorel
“Everything is up for grabs, everything is relative. Except nothing is if you are serious about it because the moment you become serious about answering a question you have a stake in it. Relatively goes out of the window, in one sense because you're putting your a** out there - you are depending on the answer, you need the answer.” MomentsSeriousWindowRelative Author:John Edgar Wideman
“Thanks to the Internet, I think, a lot of hate has moved to more anonymous venues. A lot of people get their aggression out that way. Or they do some drive-by hating—you know, where they’re in a car and they yell something stupid out the window at a stoplight and then take off. It’s just not as involved and laborious to be a hater as it used to be. There’s not as much face-to-face interaction. Facebook’s made ’em lazy.” PeopleThinkingHateCarStupidInternetWindowMovedThanksLazyAggressionHate You Author:Negin Farsad
“My mother was wonderfully out about her dementia. She would sort of - she would say to me, I came out to the window cleaner about having dementia. You know, I love the way that verb for coming out of the closet has now become so socially useful for all sorts of situations, like when you need to explain to the window cleaner that you don't know if you paid him or not.” MotherSituationWindowDementia Author:Emma Donoghue
“My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and his life and history were very formative to myself and my family. The almost unimaginable dichotomy between the different eras of his life always crushed my brain on some level. That this guy who was shoveling carob chips out of a barrel and restocking yogurt popsicles could also have those numbers on his arm. It was an inconceivable juxtaposition. His experience was the main window for our family into any kind of social consciousness, or sense of history, or politics, even though a lot of it went unsaid.” KindDifferentGuyBrainConsciousnessWindowMy FamilyOur FamilySurvivorHolocaustGrandfatherCrushedMy GrandfatherDichotomy Author:Jonathan Raymond
“Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.” RunningParentWindowIndependenceSound Of Music Author:Christina Aguilera
“The time came around where the label was like, "Well, if you want something to come out in early 2017, it's going to have to be done by, like, so-and-so." So I plucked some of the old songs and wrote some new ones. Everybody keeps asking me, "Is this your L.A. record?" I was doing songs in a bedroom in New York, I was doing it in a bedroom in L.A. The only difference is when I look out the window, there's palm trees instead of snow.” DoneSongTreeWindowSnowBedroomOld Song Author:Mac DeMarco
“I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot of them are books for children but I feel like childhood reading is this magic window and there's something that you sort of carry for the rest of your life when a book has really changed you as a kid, or affected you, or even made you recognize something about yourself.” ThinkingChildrenBookKidsReadingMagicChildhoodChangedWindowAbout Yourself Author:Rebecca Stead
“It became very important for me to stand up and design with a conscience for environment, you know? Just because you like clothes doesn't mean that you have to throw your principles out the window.” MeanImportantEnvironmentDesignConscienceWindow Author:Maria Cornejo
“Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.” BehaviorCatWindowUnpredictable Author:Michael Showalter
“Part of the failure of the corporate media is that they don't dig out stories anymore. They are looking down from the top floors. Media work used to be something that was down on the ground level. Now they are looking out of the windows in the top suites, and they don't know what's going on out there. And then there are the corporate owners who don't want this stuff reported because if one town learns that the next town has defeated Wal-Mart or stopped sweatshop goods, then other towns are going to want to do the same thing.” WindowDefeated Author:Jim Hightower
“I travel alone so much, and the first thought is to grab the damn phone. In airports, just look around. Nobody looks at anybody, or even out the window. It's obvious we can't live without it anymore, and as a comic on the road the phone is an essential tool. It's probably doing more good than bad for me, but it does make me sad that those of us who grew up without mobile phones, we know what we're missing.” MissingWindowObviousComic Author:Demetri Martin
“I grew up with the motto of "they can't kill you and eat you," and I still think that's right. You sure as hell can't! When it comes to speaking about my body makes other people uncomfortable but it doesn't make me uncomfortable. It makes them think more about themselves than it makes them judge me. I've always had this body and had to live with it. I've never been a little thing. I've been smaller but I've never been small, even as a baby. I've never had that window into that kind of world where people only talk to you because you're conventionally sexy.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindHellJudgingBabyWindowSexyUncomfortableLittle ThingsMottoJudge Me Author:Beth Ditto
“The idea is not to get to a conclusion if the Democrats and the media have their way. Now, arguing against - other than common sense. Arguing against a relatively quick conclusion here is that this investigation will include whatever has been done or not done by Michael Flynn. And if the special counsel decides that there need to be indictments, well, then you can forget about a quick wrap-up to anything. If there are indictments, subpoenas, investigations, if there's gonna be trials, then you can throw rapidity out the window.” DoneForgetCommonSpecialWindowDemocratArguingCommon SenseConclusion Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.” WorldGivingDifferentUniverseWindow Author:Freeman Dyson
“When you are writing, you have to love all your characters. If you're writing something from a minor character's point of view, you really need to stop and say the purpose of this character isn't to be somebody's sidekick or to come in and put the horse in the stable. The purpose of this character is you're getting a little window into that character's life and that character's day. You have to write them as if they're not a minor character, because they do have their own things going on.” WritingCharacterPurposeWindowHorsePoint Of View Author:Robin Hobb
“As you start the company, you start spending spending spending ahead of revenue but then you come out of it and very quickly you should become a company that spends less than it makes. And what I mean by very quickly, is that window of time should be in that 6 to 8 year time frame. And the reason is because if you build your business model correctly it's almost unavoidable.” MeanReasonWindow Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of opportunity when you leave your childhood behind and have this chance to become what you always wanted to be. For me, that was a time when I could have gone many different ways. I was in flux and deciding what kind of person I would become. There's something interesting about the vision of what that will be and the reality of making that happen, and how you really are what you are. Unless you're "in character," it's impossible to get around that.” KindDifferentCharacterRealityAgeOpportunityChanceInterestingVisionImpossibleChildhoodPossibilityWindowYour ChildrenSomething InterestingWindow Of Opportunity Author:Daniel Clowes
“The way Trump talks about Obama: presidents don't do that! What we're seeing now is a whole new level of vulgarity. I'm really hoping that it's not the rule from here on out. It's really distressing for me to witness this. I really hope we don't have to throw all decency out the window, just because Trump's president.” PresidentWindowWitnessDecencyVulgarity Author:David Sedaris
“My parents told me they were going to kill me at least a thousand times growing up. "I'm gonna kill you," and then they'd whack me on the side of the head or whatever. And "What's wrong with you?" And "I'm gonna lock you up," and "I'm gonna throw you out the window," and "I'm gonna kill you." You know, all these things that you say in the heat of a normal chaotic household.” ParentGrowing UpWindowKill MeChaotic Author:Dave Eggers
“The fun part, I will admit this much, there is a period when listening to my music is fun, and that's when I'm making it. There's a tiny little window before something gets old, but after it's come to fruition. There's a little window there where I can listen to a song probably about five times, and I'll really think it's awesome. That's kind of the period that lets me know when I - 99 percent of the time, that period is right about whether a song is going to be a keeper for an album or just a throwaway track that never gets - in that little window.” ThinkingKindSongFunListeningMusic IsWindowLet MeTrack Author:RJD2
“My view is, in between environmental determinism and personal responsibility, we say, "where there's a will there's a way." It's not true. You really need both and they're somewhat independent. We must both cultivate will and pave the way. If you inspire an impassioned people so that they have the will but there's no way, all around them are walls with no doors or windows. It's terribly frustrating. On the other hand, if you put a very nice way at their feet and they have no will to follow it, that doesn't produce anything very good either. Will is not way. You need both.” PeopleResponsibilityNiceInspireWallWindowIndependentEnvironmentalVery GoodFrustratingPersonal ResponsibilityVery NiceDeterminism Author:David Katz
“When you're a kid, you think you can jump out the window and be okay. But when you get older, you think, "Wait a minute - I can't fly!"” ThinkingKidsWaitingWindowOkay Author:Ralph Lauren
“My main influences - I loved art. I sounds a little pretentious to say I was into art but I liked drawing. I liked music; music was my outlet from day one. I was giving you an image of Ireland being this dull, grey, massive unemployment, not much going on and the future was the dull queue or - and, for me, the window of hope was music and books. So I fell in love with sort of T-Rex and David Bowie very young. They sort of said, "Hey. You don't have to live in this north side of Dublin that's all grey and depressed. You can be a spider and go to Mars."” GivingArtBookInfluenceWindowIrelandPretentiousHey You Author:Gavin Friday
“Getting into a space suit and going outside, to me, getting your peripheral vision involved and looking at the Earth was a whole different experience than looking through the window. And it's kind of the same on earth. If you're driving in a car and you see like a beautiful sunset or landscape, it looks so much better if you stop and get out and kind of take it all in and that's kind of what it's like doing a spacewalk.” KindDifferentEarthBeautifulVisionCarWindowDrivingSunsetBeautiful Sunset Author:Leroy Chiao
“In The Shining, you love Shelley Duvall. You love Jack Nicholson. You're let into the intimacy of that violence and it's emotional and it's physical. We're let in very close. So I think a good horror film has to pull you in very deeply inside. Halloween is a good horror film because we love Jamie Lee Curtis, we're brought very deeply in right when she's babysitting the kids. She's going from house to house, all those houses have windows that you can look in. We're a very vulnerable and exposed audience.” ThinkingKidsFilmHouseAudienceViolenceEmotionalHorrorWindowShiningVulnerableIntimacyHalloweenVery DeepHorror FilmNicholsonShelleyBabysitting Author:Kimberly Peirce
“When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.” FantasyWindowTheatre Author:Bertrand Bonello
“I think most people get hit by the music first and you can be singing along and realize a song has this melancholy feel. As Swedes, I think we see a beauty in melancholy. You're heartbroken, you're looking out the window and you feel really at ease in the pain. I have so many memories as a teenager with music, sad music, but I was just so into it.” PeopleThinkingPainSongRealizingMemoriesSingingWindowTeenagerMelancholyHeartbroken Author:Yukimi Nagano
“I think the essence of fashion is lightness, frivolity, and I'm very nostalgic for the time when Bérard was doing the windows, Cocteau was writing a play, Chanel did the costumes, Bérard did the sets. I don't have to tell you this, because Colette was the first to have revived the Rue St.-Honoré by precisely doing windows that attract people. And I really like that spontaneous spirit. And so, you're lucky to be with Colette, because it's a magic word.” PeopleThinkingWritingSpiritMagicFashionLuckyWindowSpontaneousNostalgicFrivolity Author:Ines de La Fressange
“Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago. "The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel. A little more than a hundred years ago, "Tel Aviv" was not a city. It was a title of another novel written by the same author. The "Return to Zion" was a name of another novel. There was a bookshelf. There was no state. There was no nation. All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.” DifferentCountryDreamNovelWindowJewFulfillmentFuturistic Author:Amos Oz
“To foster creativity, I think a little pressure can be good, but stress isn't good. Knowing that you have a defined window of time and you're going to dedicate your attention to it is a positive - but you can't think of it as needing a track that's going to change your life.” ThinkingAttentionCreativityWindowStressTrackBe GoodChanging Your Life Author:Yukimi Nagano
“When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused on the minutiae. You're focused on the overall feel, and that's the stuff that I get from the demos. First impressions are always the most important. When you start getting into a full-band, democratic context the little things almost immediately get thrown out the window because you don't think they're important.” ThinkingImportantMomentsSongWindowDemocraticFocusedImpressionLittle ThingsFirst Impression Author:Adam Granduciel
“I do think that taking these sort of natural mind-opening and altering drugs does have an effect. Doors and windows that you didn't even know were in the house are open and you're seeing views you've never noticed before. Even though, when you come down, the world sort of goes back to the way it was, an inkling of that transformed vision and experience of the world remains. I think it's a little bit medicinal, and over time it sort of builds up a new experience of the world. That's when I think smoking pot and doing drugs is really good for you, spiritually speaking.” ThinkingWorldHouseNaturalVisionDrugWindowSmokingPot Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“Having everyone get exposed to brainstorming, prototyping, thinking about a problem, that's a best practice. One of the things I love seeing is how genius people are. You'll be thinking about some area that needs improving, and then someone just comes in and gives you that little bit of energy. Free online education doesn't solve everything, but you open the window and you build on each other.” PeopleThinkingGivingProblemEnergyGeniusWindowOnline Author:Megan Smith
“I find that my touchstones go out the window, the routines, the things that you do to keep you grounded. Then when I'm out of work I have too much time. The trick is not to get lost surfing the Internet.” InternetWindowSurfing Author:Rosemarie DeWitt
“It's true that the biggest value of life is that it's going to stop. I was thinking when I was in New York the last time that all that we see that has importance is man-made. It isn't nature-made. And when I was looking through the window, looking at New York, I was so moved by humanity's desire for immortality-because that's what it is.” ThinkingDesireValuesWindowImportanceMovedLast TimeValue Of Life Author:Lou Doillon
“When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.” PeopleGivingTryingOpportunityWaitingWorryHard WorkWindowThings HappenNot InterestedWork Harder Author:Noel Clarke