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“Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.”

Love Said Soul Body Sex Five Window Prison Senses Mystical Blake Five Senses

Author:Jim Morrison

“I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.”

Looks Different Sometimes Eye Imagine Tree Color Ready Scene Shadow Window Paint

Author:Grandma Moses

“When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.”

Done Motivational Moving Opportunity Window Crisis Compelling Momentum Window Of Opportunity

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.”

People Writing I Can Play Window Admire Bridges Tennis

Author:Alice Munro

“It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.”

Should Years Firsts Long Important Earth Sides Four Long Time First Time Window Billions Hopefully Caution Short Time

Author:Elon Musk

“The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.”

Ifs Want Feels Moving Memories Loneliness Like You Picks Window Embrace

Author:Ajay Naidu

“Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.”

Art Might Literature Darkness Window Criticism Unseen Chandeliers

Book:The Critic and the Drama

Source: The Critic and the Drama

“Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.”

Writing Looks Book Hard Shows Fun Hours Couple Jokes Window Bus Here And There Writing A Book

Author:Willie Nelson

“There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.”

Persons Play Character Film Window Interiors Exterior

Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”

Ifs Love Joy Peace Morning Sun Fire Bird Tasks Window Coffee Rays Leafs Good Morning Fire Escapes

Author:Anais Nin

“I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.”

Needs Might Broken Grew Grew Up Tools Window Flats Farmers Tire Illinois Flat Tires Broken Windows

Author:Nick Offerman

“If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.”

Ifs Use Body Window Staring Out The Window

Author:Samuel Beckett

“When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.”

People Stills Scene Eating Window Seats Sunday Afternoon Hobbies Broadway Manhattan Starbucks Sunday Afternoons

Author:Susan Orlean

“They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.”

Half Married Window Divorced

Author:Suze Orman

“Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.”

World Stills Amount Fairs Window Curiosity Despite Insatiable

Author:Michael Palin

“I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.”

Needs Soul Eye Window Quotations Dictionary Window To The Soul

Book:Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story

Source: Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story

“I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.”

Said Enough Shows Wanted Moving Song Brother Tvs Window Chocolate Tv Shows Orange Washing County Orange County

Author:Pat Paulsen

“Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.”

Want Mean Doe Desire Opportunity Poverty Economy Wind Ocean Window Democratic Israel Improvement Islands Neighbour Affluence Life Means Neighbourhoods Window Of Opportunity Winds Of Change

Author:Shimon Peres

“I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.”

Soul Realizing Window Musical Diaries

Author:Joe Perry

“If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.”

Ifs Inspirational Success Opportunity Achievement Window Shade Take A Chance Window Of Opportunity

Book:The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

Source: The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

“Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.”

World Humans Language Human Nature Window Wounds Exposed

Author:Steven Pinker

“For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.”

Time Evil Nations Waiting Lines Justice Fronts Amount Standing Window Enormous Reputation Bustle

Book:Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

Source: Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

“I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.”

People Looks Found Losing Window Online Greatest Fear

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.”

Earth Window Looking Down

Author:Sally Ride

“When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.”

Firsts Earth Remember Chance Space Views Cutting Planets Window Seats Engines Floating Our Planet Spectacular Orbit Space Shuttle

Author:Sally Ride

“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.”

Inspirational Stars Window Dance Golden Chains Rope Garlands Steeples

Book:Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems

Source: Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems

“Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.”

“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?”

Men Said Order Fire Risk Window Suicide Every Man Guilty Preserves Taking Risks Risk It Risk-taking Great Risk Risk And Failure Chance And Risk Risking Your Life Risk And Success

Book:The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.”

Night Literature Destiny Worry Strange Wind Window Wings Blow Strange Things My Destiny

Book:Ever the Winds of Chance

Source: Ever the Winds of Chance

“Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.”

Trying Looks Answers Nice Sky Window Blue Math Starting Over Try Again Arithmetic Blue Sky

Book:Carl Sandburg

Source: Carl Sandburg

“Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.”

Knows Literature Know How Doors Movement Window Weather Humidity

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.”

Ifs Hands Tvs Wall Mom Window My Mom Warm One Time Cords

Author:Akiva Schaffer

“Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.”

Ifs Whole Feelings Window Pace Relaxed Drummer Conductor

Author:Steven Adler

“My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.”

Way Giving Ideas Next Forget Minutes Window No Idea Indifference Resolution Reckless Waiter Disgraceful Spendthrift

Book:The Letters of Robert Schumann

Source: The Letters of Robert Schumann

“Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.”

Ifs Way Writing Years Mind Firsts Heart Pain Loses Hurt Crazy Car Broken My Heart Window Tire Impetus Writing Poems So Hurt

Author:Jill Scott

“I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.”

Kind Home Kids Views Millions Window Bucks

Author:Joe Biden

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”

Men Funny Sleep Marriage Humorous Window Witty Engagement Alliances Husband And Wife Anniversary Love And Marriage Can't Sleep Positive Marriage Good Marriage Marriage Love Engagement Day Funny Husband And Wife

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.”

“Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.”

Firsts Sometimes Enjoy Dark Novel Comfortable Window Train Speed Narrative Attractive Seats Chapters Passengers Framed Carriages

Author:Jane Smiley

“I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.”

Thinking Knows Trying Ends Opportunity Window Athlete Solo Window Of Opportunity

Author:Hope Solo

“I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.”

Ifs Children Wanted School Saws Bird Window Ambitious Adventurous

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.”

Looks Lying Sky Bed Window Airplane Immense Virginia Skylines

Author:Ben Stein

“The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.”

Body House Sadness Loneliness Cry Tears Sad Window And Love Body Temperature

Book:The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

“Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.”

Facts Light Black Lines Sky Broken Conscious Window Horse Drivers Tall Rays Pulling Ruined Castles Rays Of Light

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.”

Men Together Literature Men And Women Window Weather Thunder Stormy Marry Me Stormy Weather

Author:Jonathan Swift

“An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.”

Persons Light Evil Window Shining Dirty Nasty Naughty

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'”

People Humor Funny Economy Program Window Hey Staring Microsoft Linux Blank Stares

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.”

Trying Different Goal Window Competition Threat Setting Goals Microsoft Linux

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.”

Looks Used Interesting Economy Window Traditional Used To Be Kernel

Author:Linus Torvalds