Best window & behinds Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.”

Feels Behinds Youth Football Window Deny Insane Celebration Manchester

Author:Eric Cantona

“The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.”

Suffering Love Is Behinds Sun Tree Eating Window Horse Green Mere Innocent Opening Banality Auden

Book:In Sierra Leone

Source: In Sierra Leone

“When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.”

“The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything youve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.”

Giving Looks Earth Stars White Behinds Existence Known Moon Normal Perception Window Balls Blue Edges Flight Galaxy Thumbs Thumbs Up Blue And White

Author:Jim Lovell

“The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.”

“What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?”

Ifs Christian Religious Behinds Liberty Window Glasses Sunday Religious Liberty Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.”

Sometimes Behinds Wall Window Sticks Nursery Rhymes

Book:Summer and Bird

Source: Summer and Bird

“People want everything to come out of a drive thru window. They want it instant and they want it fast. I succumb to that, we all succumb to that. We're in it. That's the culture. So the enemy, the powers that be, the manipulators behind the scenes play to our natural weaknesses.”

People Want Play Culture Natural Behinds Enemy Scene Weakness Window Instant Behind The Scenes Manipulator Drive Thru

Author:Alex Jones

“He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.”

Source: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

“UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.”

Thinking Way Years Kind Philosophy Home Used Evil Behinds Design Grew Normal Window Clean Strive Core Users Strife Microsoft Programmers Operating Systems Unix

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I get really irritated with crap drivers, so the last time I got cross was probably behind the wheel. I'll shout from the safety of my car, with the window up, but if anyone ever got out and challenged me I'd be terrified.”

Ifs Lasts Behinds Car Crosses Window Safety Wheels Drivers Crap Last Time Terrified Get Real Irritated

Author:Nikki Sanderson

“Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.”

People Thinking Looks Force Behinds Regret Window Mirrors Appeals Escapists Open Road

Author:Gavin Rossdale

“I'm convinced we all are voyeurs. It's part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know what goes on behind those windows. And not in a way that we would use to hurt anyone. There's an entertainment value to it, but at the same time we want to know: What do humans do? Do they do the same things as I do? It's a gaining of some sort of knowledge, I think.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Humans Use Values Hurt Secret Behinds Goes On Window Entertainment Convinced Detectives

Author:David Lynch

“As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons”

Thinking Way Artist Pay Behinds Rich Five Rocks Band Window Selling Producers Managers Mates Splits Drummer Cds Rock Bands Platinum Drive Thru

Author:Steven Page

“Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.”

Thinking Want Trying Years Wells Home Kids Wanted Used Certain Bits Sound Behinds Ten Window Sells Curtains Pizza Ambience

Author:Robert Plant

“The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was a young FBI agent at his first or second posting - we're all from New York. He was posted in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he put the family in a brand new red-brick apartment. It was in a C-shape and behind it was a small hill that led up to the woods. There was a white-washed brick wall that was a perfect theatre! There were windows and all the ladies behind the windows in their apartments. I would go out there after lunch every day and sing opera.”

“People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.”

People Kind Book Lines Behinds Window Phones Receiving Publishers Phone Calls

Author:Salman Rushdie

“When we woke up every morning, one of our things was, "Let's go put a new sign in the back window of the van." Those are the different signs we had up in the back of our van, so that the people behind us could have something enjoyable to look at.”

People Looks Different Behinds Morning Window Every Morning Vans Enjoyable

Author:David Pajo

“The only reason I would call the police is if someone is getting aggressed in the street and I'm behind a window.”

Ifs Reason Behinds Streets Window Police

Author:Gaspar Noe

“So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.”

Littles Made Two Play Bigs House Behinds Tree Window Green Mary Roof Fence Oaks Summertime Shutters Laura Oak Tree

Book:The Little House Book of Memories

Source: The Little House Book of Memories

“So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.”

Way Feels Littles Doe Ideas Together Reading Sound Behinds Fire Imagine Wind Keys Sorrow Pages Window Green Dare Woods Melody Ecstasy Curtains Pouring Snapping Pages Turning

Book:The King in the Tree

Source: The King in the Tree

“I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window." "You what?" "Fell out the window. That one over there." She [Edwina] gestured to the curtain behind her. "I broke my back. My spine is all wobbly now, but it doesn't hurt.”

Hurt Behinds Terrible Window Broke Curtains Spine Headache

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.”

“Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.”

Ifs Knows Feels Today Past Film Water Behinds Seeing Feet Walking Window Pressure Edges Stores Ice Usual Peers Floats Blades Tense Freeze Skates Cement Eagerness Present Tense

Book:Bluebeard's Egg

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

“You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked its wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. But who among you was first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? Who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was?”

Firsts Remember Left Behinds Existence Saws Blood Dying Bird Shadow Negative Window Wings Fingers Proof Spots Remember When Left Behind

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.”

World Writing Bigs Light Lasts White Behinds Sun Cold Late Window Pops Setting Snow Settings Hills Colour Seats Where You Are Yellow Afternoon Towers Violet Corn Flakes Late Afternoon

Author:Jean Webster

“Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.”

Lying Behinds Path Window Opening Portal

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).”

“every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.”

World Love Behinds Wall Healthy Heartbreak Aspect Window Barriers Gaps Family And Friends Fidelity Healthy Marriage

Book:Committed: A Love Story

Source: Committed: A Love Story

“Then her eyes narrowed. The sun was spilling in the window behind her and Dageus's eyes were golden, dappled with darker flecks. Smoky and sensual, fringed by thick dark lashes, but gold nonetheless. "What is with your eyes?" she exclaimed. "Is it part of being a Druid?" "What color are they?" he asked warily. "Gold." He flashed her another unguarded smile. It was like basking in the sun, she thought, tracing her fingers over his beard-shadowed jaw, smiling helplessly back.”

Eye Dark Behinds Sun Color Window Gold Fingers Golden Sensual Thick Her Eyes Beard Lashes Spilling Tracing Druids Basking

Book:The Dark Highlander

Source: The Dark Highlander

“Ian Kabra rolled up his window. "My god, what's that smell?" Behind the wheel, Sinead laughed. "It's called fresh air. Growing up in London, you've probably never breathed it before." "And I hope I never breathe it again.”

Behinds Growing Up Growing Air Window Smell Breathe London Wheels Laughed Fresh Air Ian Kabra

Book:The Medusa Plot

Source: The Medusa Plot

“At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.”

Looks Littles Lying Behinds Understood Rivers Window Woods Brown Wilderness Ducks Hens Musings Paddling

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.”

Source: Trilogy; an experiment in multimedia

“And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate will to die, to finish, not to see more light over any city, not to think, not to feel, to leave behind like wrapping paper the course of the sun and the days, to rid myself, at the edge of the grand bed, as of a heavy suit, of the involuntary effort to be.”

Thinking Feels Soul Light Dies Courses Enjoy Effort Cities Behinds Sun Bed Paper Window Edges Heavy Suits My Soul Intimate Volume Involuntary Wrapping Wrapping Paper

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art.”

Source: Beauty Queens

“The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.”

“I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.”

Thinking Way Giving Should Mean Littles Persons Beautiful Used Song Hours Behinds Tree Mets Reflection Window Decided Glasses Staring Bedroom Just Listen

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“Then he crouches down behind it, motions for Tess and me to sit down, and begins unbuttoning his vest. I blush scarlet and thank every god in the world for the darkness surrounding us. “I’m not cold and I’m not bleeding,” I say to him. “Keep your clothes on.” The boy looks at me. I would’ve expected his bright eyes to look dimmer in the night, but instead they seem to reflect the light coming from the windows above us. He’s amused. “Who said anything about you , sweetheart?”

World Looks Said Light Seems Eye Night Behinds Boys Darkness Cold Clothes Window Down And Expected Look At Me Bleeding Amused Sweetheart Scarlet Vests Tess Bright Eyes

Author:Marie Lu

“The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.”

Ifs Thinking Children Sometimes Stories Voice Behinds Wonder Hair Becoming Window Neighborhood Witch Curtains Old Woman Boulders

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“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

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