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“Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.”

World Real Creativity Creative Seeing Doors This World Keys Window Senses Wellspring Unlocking

Author:Jean Houston

“I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.”

Thinking Used Window Glasses Plates Bricks Begging

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.”

Ifs Wells Opportunity Boys Gone Doors Window Luck Good Luck My Boys

Book:Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus

“If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.”

Ifs Way I Can Opportunity Doors Window Down And My Way

Author:Rosie Perez

“Microsoft made a big deal about Windows NT getting a C2 security rating. They were much less forthcoming with the fact that this rating only applied if the computer was not attached to a network and had no network card, and had its floppy drive epoxied shut, and was running on a Compaq 386. Solaris's C2 rating was just as silly.”

Ifs Made Facts Bigs Running Deals Security Computer Window Silly Cards Big Deal Microsoft Rating Forthcoming Solaris

Author:Bruce Schneier

“There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don't want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation.”

Ifs Want America Night Certain Middle Tvs Drug Window Bars Injury Middle Of The Night Self Injury Mutilation Middle America

Author:Ani DiFranco

“We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive-through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?”

“To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.”

Facts Science House Wall Keys Window Rounds Wander Now And Then Peeping Wandering Aimlessly

Author:Julian Huxley

“...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.”

Humans Art I Can Bits Habit Window Human Life

Author:John French Sloan

“I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad.”

Long Politics Fear Church Sun Atheism Singing Window Towns Mad Rage Evening Slums Looking Down Canals

Book:Poesía reunida

Source: Poesía reunida

“Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse of the minds of the sages - a glimpse of course. It will open a window so you can see the faraway distant Himalayas. And then an urge arises in you, and you start travelling.”

Needs Giving Mind Real Helping Spiritual Moving Courses Meditation Window Arise Urges Sage Glimpse Himalayas Real Music

Author:Rajneesh

“Learn to love the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.”

Fall Rain Window Winter Snow Gentle Sunset Roof Sunrise Winter Days Sunrise And Sunset

Author:Lowell L. Bennion

“It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.”

Whole Earth Lying Nations Christianity Support Building Bears Stones Window Weight Glorious Unseen Despised Gargoyles

Author:John Owen

“Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.”

Summer Window Coats Fur Fur Coats

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?”

Thinking Long Ends Water Sky Car Summer Window Flying Afternoon Burned Jet Dose Whim

Book:The Fortress of Solitude

Source: The Fortress of Solitude

“The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.”

Culture House Church Modern Stones Window Glasses Eyeglasses Modern Culture Stained Glass Glass Houses

Book:THE SIGNIFIANCE OF THE CHURCH

Source: THE SIGNIFIANCE OF THE CHURCH

“I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.”

Seems Form Lines Painting Consequence Window Prison Bars Abstract Composition

Book:Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial

Source: Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial

“Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted.”

Trying Jobs Environment Security Window Abuse Smoking Internals Factories Platforms Fireworks

Author:Gene Spafford

“I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes through the coil. The result was spectacular-a deafening explosion, the apparatus disappeared, all windows were blown in or out, a wall caved in, and thus ended my pioneering experiment on liquid hydrogen cooled coils!”

Science Results Wall Late Expectations Built Window Currents Experiments Evening Biographies Explosions Spectacular Liquid Hydrogen Great Expectations Pioneering

Author:Nicholas Kurti

“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.”

Should Important Science Window Importance Experiments Unforeseen

Author:Frederic Joliot-Curie

“I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.”

Thinking Art Ends Artist Environment Window

Author:Susan Rothenberg

“Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the law of tithing.”

Inspirational Spiritual Law Heaven Our Lives Perspective Honor Window Illumination Tithing

Author:David A. Bednar

“Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.”

Knows Way Inspirational I Can Earth Heaven Doors All Things Window Going Out

Author:George Harrison

“There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.”

Way Ideas Opportunity Gratitude Flow Window Grateful Entrepreneur Be Grateful Thanksgiving Thankfulness Being Thankful Window Of Opportunity

Author:Jim Rohn

“My daily Nespresso coffee, an unexpected shaft of sunlight through the window on a winter's day, my bargain Missoni sunglasses (70 percent off!)”

Percent Window Grateful Winter Coffee Unexpected Sunlight Bargains Sunglasses

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.”

Light Faith Imagine Glory Standing Window Harmony Rays Without You Splendor Cathedrals Unspeakable Rays Of Light

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain.”

World Needs May Made Said Wisdom Pain Hours Clear This World Window Prophet Islamic Remedy

Author:Rumi

“I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.”

Said I Can Lasts Remember Sports Training Window Spokes Hospitals Last Words Inspirational Sports Crawling

Author:Dawn Fraser

“Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.”

Window Clarity Mates Abstinence

Author:Lance Morrow

“The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take specific bold actions which they ordinarily believe would not otherwise be possible or politically acceptable...In effect, envisaged solutions can become rapidly translated into practical options for action following a major disaster or near-miss.”

“We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer...So we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day of record in Washington, or close to it...we went in the night before and opened all the windows...so that the air conditioning wasn't working inside the room.”

Night Found Energy Rooms Records Environment Air Summer Window Climate Change Hearing Weather Conditioning Hottest Air Conditioning Bingo

Author:Tim Wirth

“Oprah is rich; Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out of a window and slit his throat on the way down saying, 'I can't even put gas in my plane!'”

Ifs Way I Can Money Rich Tomorrow Window Bills Planes Gas Gates Wealthy Throat Slits

Author:Chris Rock

“She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.”

Years Looks Lasts Opportunity Waiting Views Existence Possibility Couple Window Bored Instant Boredom Thrown Curtains Marvellous

Book:The Shell Seekers

Source: The Shell Seekers

“Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.”

Trying Window Property Wide Contrary Bored Boredom Infinity Peril Equilibrium

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I arrive at my office at 8:37. I stay in the office until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I get in my Porsche and I'm home at 2:03 because the one-way streets make it faster for me to drive. And between 8:36 am and 2 pm, I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.”

Way Writing Home Three House Morning Streets Office Window Let Me Get Up One Way Faster Clock Staring Afternoon Three Things Pms Porsche Staring Out The Window

Author:Thomas Harris

“It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.”

Thinking Easy Differences Window Entrepreneur

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror!”

Life Looks Motivational Games Window Mirrors Blame Blame Game

Author:Eric Thomas

“I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade.”

Looks Jokes Window Shade Toms Getting Dressed Peeping

Author:Joan Rivers

“I think someone follows me. They do the most random stuff. I get a photo taken through a burger drive-through window and it's like, 'What?'. They always seem like they're six feet away. I don't understand. I'm walking around and I don't see anybody.”

Thinking Seems Stuff Taken Feet Walking Fame Six Window Follow Me Burgers Random Stuff Most Random

Author:Robert Pattinson

“When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school. Plates are full and store windows are glittering. But at the same time the great majority of the world's children and women stand - no - shiver on the precipice”

Knows World Children School Parent Morning Safe Window Wake Up Majority Stores My Children Breakfast Hug Plates Shiver Precipice

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe.”

Looks Country Safe Window Memorable Fence Palaces

Author:Alexander Lukashenko

“What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.”

Writing Wife Window Staring Great Writing Editing And Writing Staring Out The Window

Author:Burton Rascoe

“You shouldn't be pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. They know that if we see an outfit on a mannequin in a shop window we will love it and want to buy it whatever size we are. That's why they have size zero models - they want to sell clothes. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Being size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.”

“Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.”

World Looks Photography Window Mirrors Photographer

Author:David Alan Harvey

“The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to look at the thing, you're supposed to look through it. It's a window.”

Looks Beautiful Materials Photography Window Photograph Oil Canvas Ivory Tapestry Bronze

Author:John Szarkowski

“As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked.”

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

“I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.”

World Should Enough Hands Hurt Animal This World Window Wide Opening Thee Rising Pet Should I Uncles Insects Spiders Toby

Author:Laurence Sterne

“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.”

Age Boys Window Mary Virgins Altars Masturbation Choir Virgin Mary

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.”

“Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.”

Ifs Want Looks Democracy Fate Progress Window

Author:House Peters, Jr.