Best window & building Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.”

Firsts Past Doors Building Broken Proud Window Empty Plates Renewal New Day Gleam Tiles Each New Day

Book:I explain a few things: selected poems

Source: I explain a few things: selected poems

“I like doing this stuff [stunts] though, it's kind of the whole reason that you want to do the movie. When you're reading it you're like, "Oh, I get to dive out a window? Cool! I get to jump off a building? Great!" So I love doing that stuff, it's like the stuff we used to do in high school to be stupid and fun.”

Want Kind Reason Whole School Used Reading Fun Stuff Stupid Building High School Window

Author:Channing Tatum

“A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.”

World Kind Earth Girl Rooms Numbers Building Creatures Window Wave Seeking Forests Ships Prisoner Void Towers Frail Tapestry Slits Fill The Void

Book:The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“When HSBC took the painting out of their building, they had to block the road and use a crane to bring the painting out from the window. They spent about 20,000 dollars just to get the painting out of the building! They said not to bring it back, and told Sotheby's to sell it immediately!”

Said Use Building Painting Window Sells Dollars Block They Said Cranes

Author:Liu Dan

“Microsoft and Dell have been building, implementing and operating massive cloud operations for years. Now we are extending our longstanding partnership to help usher in the new era of cloud computing, by giving customers and partners the ability to deploy the Windows Azure platform in their own datacenters.”

“[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.”

Knows Might Interest Building Window Hello Cemetery Overlooked Mgm

Author:Dorothy Parker

“When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power see things happen of which they disapprove, they smash store windows, blow themselves up in crowded places, and fly planes into buildings. The fact that both methods have proved remarkably unsuccessful at changing things doesn't stop people from going on in the same way.”

People Way Facts Happens Building Window Method Blow Stores Things Happen Planes Bombs Tanks Crowded Unsuccessful Crowded Places

Author:N. T. Wright

“When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.”

Want Light Nice Building Window West East Coast Bricks Glowing Daylight East Coast Some Nice

Author:Ian Frazier

“I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.”

People Thinking Littles Helping Building Window Mirrors Raises Everyday Hotel Architect Angle Cheerful Bathroom Shaving Everyday Living

Author:David Chipperfield

“From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.”

Writing Children I Can Sound Voice Laughing Fronts Cry Building Window Distance Speed Innocent Sunset Sunrise Yelling Playgrounds Children Playing Sunrise And Sunset

Author:Andrea Hirata

“It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.”

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

“For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.”

Trying Hands Night Doors Building Wind Window Rounds Seeking Tricks Wander Unseen Spooky Moaning Crevice

Book:The Chimes

Source: The Chimes

“I love New York. It's given me so much as a designer. When I moved here, I wanted to tap into the glamour of the city immediately. More than anywhere else, New York offers itself up - you arrive and get a rush in a flash. It's dazzling. Everywhere you look, there is decoration, from a pair of jewel-encrusted shoes in the window in Bergdorf Goodman to the Chrysler Building. And New York is incredibly democratic. Everyone is packed into this tiny space. You are confronted with all manner of people, and I love that.”

“It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.”

Ifs Easy Company Building Tasks Window Motorcycle Bikers Easy Tasks Hiccups

Author:Robert Evans

“This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.”

People Ifs Sometimes House Water Doors Sky Building Flower Masters Moon Window Leaving Delusion Locks Zen Master

Book:Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China

Source: Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China

“Window washers increase the vision in the windows of the buildings; wisdom quotes do the same thing in the eyes of the people!”

People Eye Vision Building Window Increase

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.”

Next Challenges Technology Building Window Rewards Financial Seeking New Technology Shortage

Author:Bill Gates

“I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window one time. I forgot to set back a brick and I just kept going - there I was singing 'There's no business like show business'.”

World I Can Shows Worst Building Singing Window One Time Bricks Show Business Hazards Bricklayers

Author:Pat Cooper

“Sound... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even see a bat head towards a building and swerve away, but you'll see a bird that doesn't... you know smash right into a glass window. It's very funny.”

Ifs Knows Looks Sound Building Like You Bird Window Glasses Bats Precise Navigate Swerve

Author:DJ Spooky

“The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building and into a car. You look out of the window. You arrive at the venue. You sit in the chair; you wait; you step out onto the stage. Every movement is simple. There is only that.”

Giving Looks Moments Reality Waiting Simple Steps Stage Car Movement Building Window Chairs Present Moment Venues

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“My grandmother told a story that when they used to leave from Southampton to go into the City, because he had apartment buildings in Queens - I was born in Astoria, Queens - they had apartment buildings in Queens and Manhattan, different businesses, and she wanted to pick blueberries on the side of the road and he wouldn't stop, so my grandma used to throw her purse out the window. She never had less than $4,000 cash, back in the 20s, and he would then stop the car and she would pick blueberries. And, he never had a record.”

Different Stories Wanted Used Sides Born Cities Records Car Building Picks Window Queens Grandmother Cash Apartment My Grandmother Grandma Purses Manhattan My Grandma Blueberries Southampton

Author:Robert Davi

“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.”

Thinking Giving Together Beautiful Church Environment Building Worship Music Is Window Strive Contemplation

Author:Dave Brubeck

“Walks are never as good during the day. At night, when everyone's apartments are lit up and you can see inside, that's where the action is. Everything about this fascinates me. Windows, lampposts, building facades. Looking into other people's lives. The way it all comes together, this entity greater than the sum of its parts. I feel inspired. I'm excited about my future life.”

People Way Feels Action Together Night Walks Greater Building Window Inspired Excited Apartment Entity Lit My Future Facade Future Life

Book:Take Me There

Source: Take Me There

“Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass - -a blend of stock car racing and the never ending building of a gothic cathedral. Through the windows of my speeding car I see all that I love falling away: books unread, jokes untold, landscapes unvisited.”

Way I Can Book Fall Can Do Car Building Jokes Window Landscape Racing Gothic Never Ending Cathedrals Can Do Something Speeding Car Racing Speeding Cars Stock Car Racing

Author:Stephen Dobyns

“As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Margo rolled down the window, and I felt the thick air blow across my face, warmer than night ought to be. I glanced over and saw strands of her hair blowing all around her face. Even though I could see her there, I felt entirely alone among these big and empty buildings, like I'd survived the apocalypse and the world had been given to me, this whole and amazing and endless world, mine for the exploring.”

Source: Paper Towns

“Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dhampir. Why are you reading Tolkien?' I shrugged, then had to dodge the potted geranium he threw at me. 'After five hundred years, you've read just about everything. Besides, he had hella world-building skills.”

World Years Eye Reading Five Building Couple Skills Hundred Window Thirds Golden Dodge Fudge Ledges Golden Eye

Author:Karen Chance

“Darius didn't have any trouble finding the Street Cats building. It was a cozy-looking square brick building with big front windows crowded with cat stuff. I made a mental note to pick up a little something for Nala from their gift shop. My cat was grumpy enough without her thinking that I'd been cheating on her (translation: I would smell like a zillion other cats) and hadn't even brought her a present.”

Source: Untamed: A House of Night Novel

“With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.”

Hands Dark Rooms Building Window Wide Apartment Living Room

Book:The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.”

Littles Has Beens Made House Saws Building Window Bread Code Cake Sugar Strict Transparent Cottages Hansel And Gretel

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.”

People Country America Belief Honest Building Window Catholic Structure Curious Odd Temples Loyal Impressive Avenues Lifelong Columns Marble Grandeur Hardworking Connecticut Spires

Book:Clear and Present Danger

Source: Clear and Present Danger

“This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't just telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.”

Source: Fight Club: A Novel

“I've never been in this part of Trenton before. I don't feel comfortable driving around buildings that haven't got gang slogans sprayed on them. Look at this place. No boarded-up windows. No garbage in the gutter. No brothers selling goods on the street. Don't know how people can live like this.”

People Knows Feels Looks Know How Streets Havens Building Brother Comfortable Window Driving Selling Goods Garbage Gang Slogans Gutters

Book:Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

Source: Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

“Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake, standing by the window, leaning against it as against everything. I search in myself for the sensations I feel before these falling threads of darkly luminous water that stand out from the grimy building facades and especially from the open windows. And I don’t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don’t know what to think or where I am.”

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.”

Sides Building Window East Chicago Apartment Suicidal Not Alone East Side

Book:The spiral of memory: interviews

Source: The spiral of memory: interviews

“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

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