Best window & glasses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.”

Knows Years Lasts Parent Pieces Losing Window Glasses Driving Plates Shattered Splinters Losing A Parent

Book:Saul Bellow: Letters

Source: Saul Bellow: Letters

“I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.”

Men Cost Window Glasses Sheets Furnaces Heating

Author:Amory Lovins

“Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.”

Mean House Divine Window Eternity Glasses Treasure Mortals Preparing

Book:Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

Source: Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

“We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.”

Believe Looks Death Window Glasses Flesh Monsters Flawed Cracked

Author:James Russell Lowell

“If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.”

Ifs Body Window Glasses Temples Tattoo Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows Body Is A Temple

Author:Sylvia Plath

“Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Writing Hard Reason Faces Found Social Bits Careers Media New York Couple Window Pressure Glasses Social Media Plates Rumor Pins Respectable Once Upon A Time Exterior

Author:Margaret Atwood

“All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.”

Character Kids Childhood Brother Paper Draws Adults Window Glasses Drawing My Brother Tracing Drawing Pictures

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.”

Should Littles Style Window Glasses Preaching Transparent

Author:Nathanael Emmons

“A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.”

Light Universe Space Creation Window Photograph Glasses Awe Evoke Cathedrals Telescopes Streaming Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows Hubble Hubble Space Telescope

Author:Michael Shermer

“They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.”

Light Wanted Black Steps Support Broken Mass Window Casts Glasses Patterns Heavy Strikes Shade Roof Moonlight Lanes Pillars Spooky Rugged Lanterns

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

“The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.”

Father House Water Grew Grew Up Bird Window Shoes Glasses Boxes Tiny Hospitals Plates Dishes Rags

Author:Patti Davis

“Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.”

Eye Faces Stuff Half Figures Wall Window India Glasses Hungry Naked Golden Chinese Iron Pale Sheets Guarded Tempting Hungry Eyes

Book:The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

“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.

“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”

Thinking World Book Sometimes Seems Order Culture Window Glasses Wide Noses Mainstream Plates Living My Life Bookstores Circulation I Live My Life Slick Mainstream Culture

Book:Books & Life

Source: Books & Life

“In your bed tonight, turn off all of the lights and make sure that there is no noise. There is something that you will hear. It is probably that branch slapping the window but you better believe that your mind is going to go to some sick individual tapping on the glass because he wants to get your attention to come to the window for when you do you will be grabbed through it and pulled outside. That happens to me all of the time.”

Want Mind Believe Light Happens Turns Individual Attention Bed Window Sick Glasses Noise Branches Tonight Turn Off Tapping Slapping

Author:Marcus Dunstan

“That's just something instinctual within men. We always feel like we've got to protect our stuff. Even if it's not worth protecting, we want to protect it. You ever seen people who have like a piece of crap Pinto with a Club on the steering wheel. Somebody breaks the window, steals the Club, leaves the Pinto in a pile of glass.”

People Ifs Men Want Feels Humor Funny Stuff Break Pieces Protect Window Glasses Clubs Stealing Wheels Crap Steering

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“A man turns to the guy next to him who's covered in bandages from head to toe and asks "What happened?". "I fell through a glass window," explains the man. The first man says: "Lucky you were wearing all those bandages."”

Men Firsts Humor Funny Guy Turns Next Asks Happened He Man Lucky Window Glasses Covered Toes Lucky You Bandages

Author:Frank Carson

“We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons.”

Humor Funny House Window Glasses Pigeons Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Author:Chic Murray

“You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.”

Ends Window Glasses Get Away Plates Spiders

Author:Tobe Hooper

“We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.”

World Light Bears Shapes Window Shining Glasses Icons Procession Lanterns Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Author:Marge Piercy

“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways". He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window". Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it's all on purpose.”

World Way Firsts Happens Purpose Left Causes Religious Chance Wonder Pure Window Logic Glasses Accidents Accepted Mysterious Mortals Phrases Satan Responding Infallible Mania Maniacs

Author:Stephen King

“You may never have heard of Joseph Overton and his proverbial window but you most certainly have heard the Republican presidential campaign in 2015 year not just flinging the window open but shattering all its glass.”

Years May Heard Republican Window Glasses Campaigns Presidential Shattering Proverbial Presidential Campaign

Author:Rachel Maddow

“People who leave their cars on the street with tape covering their broken windows are obviously too trusting. I mean, when your car did have glass for a window, someone broke into it. How is tape any more of a deterrent? What are the thieves going to say? Ooh, that like looks like duct tape, we can't beat that. Let's look for one with scotch or masking.”

People Looks Mean Streets Car Broken Beats Window Glasses Broke Tape Thieves Covering Scotch Deterrent Duct Tape Broken Windows

Author:Aaron Karo

“I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this.”

Thinking Looks Beautiful House Rooms Areas Window Decided Glasses Studios Paris Sunshine Old Man Countryside Basements Dining Parlor Dining Rooms Idyllic Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Author:Feist

“I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.”

Should Believe I Believe Window Glasses Interpretation Composer Transparent

Author:Vladimir Ashkenazy

“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

“In real life, my son had a little injury a couple of years ago where we had moved into a new house and he put his hand through a glass window and it cut him really badly. Thank god he had surgery and repaired everything, but I remember I felt frozen I was so scared, and then I realized I was holding my hand just because his hand was hurt.”

Years Littles Real Hands Remember House Felt Hurt Cutting Son Couple Years Ago Window Moved Glasses Scared I Realized Real Life Injury My Son Thank God Surgery Frozen

Author:Molly Shannon

“Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a church links to a story, brands have the potential to build holistic identities.”

Stories Church Religious Practice Alive Identity Window Glasses Driven Storytelling Brands Links Icons Hymns Holistic Stained Glass Religious Practices Stained Glass Windows

Author:Martin Lindstrom

“Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon.”

“People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

People Ifs Life Inspirational Self Wisdom Light Motivational Death Women Inspiring Beauty Family Darkness Sun Meditation Self Esteem Positive Confidence Window Adversity Shining Glasses Self Confidence Self Worth Recovery Uplifting Love Yourself Revealing Beautiful Women Inner Beauty Psychiatrist Pioneers Loving Yourself True Beauty Sparkle Boost Self Confidence Self Esteem And Confidence Being Beautiful Darkness To Light Losing A Loved One Beautiful Heart Light Within Boost Your Confidence My Self Worth Your Beautiful Confidence And Love Inspirational Confidence Women Beauty Self Confidence Motivational Inspirational Self Esteem Stained Glass Beautiful Inside Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Self Worth And Love Eyes And Beauty Great Self Esteem Confidence Love Inspirational Self Confidence Beauty Within Self Respect In Love Self Respect And Love Stained Glass Windows Beauty On The Inside Beautiful Lady Women Self Respect Self Being Women's Beauty Is It Worth It Beautiful Light Women Self Confidence Shining Out

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.”

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.”

Trying Literature Music Music Is Cat Window Sticks Glasses Hung Tails Claws Wagner

Book:The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire

Source: The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire

“The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.”

People Thinking Way Feels Song Scene Shots Window Musical Glasses Plates

Author:Joss Whedon

“When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.”

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”

Beauty Window Glasses Holes Kicks Bishops Blonde Blonde Hair Stained Glass Dumb Blonde Stained Glass Windows

Author:Raymond Chandler

“The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.”

Tree Window Glasses

Author:Jack Johnson

“And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.”

Shows Sun Air Window Blue Glasses Endless Comprehending

Author:Philip Larkin

“I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the stone floor. When I was little, I used to try and capture the colored light. I thought I could hold it in my hand and carry it home. Now I know it is like happiness-- it is there or it is not, you cannot hold it or keep it.”

Knows Trying Littles Home Hands Light Used Morning Red Stones Window Green Leaving Glasses Capture Yellow Streaks Early Morning Morning Light Colored Glass Red And Green

Book:Catherine, Called Birdy

Source: Catherine, Called Birdy

“Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we'd shared.”

Should Hands Running Faces Moving Felt Mines Kissing Window Opposites Fingers Glasses Intimate Instant Inches Palms Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Author:Claudia Gray

“The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”

Men Light Cities Sun Clear Equal Paper Glory Window Glasses Rays Shed New Life Rotten Crowded Radiant Cathedrals Freshness Domes Crevice Crowded Cities

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.”

Knows World Light Wanted Left Walks Car Window Glasses Joints Another World Fast Food Drapes

Book:American Gods

Source: American Gods

“It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.”

Pain Moving Courses Sadness Shapes Window Mark Glasses Vanishing Raindrops Question Mark

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.”

Littles Different Seems Together Pieces Color Fit Hundred Window Glasses Mood Thoughtful Different Colors Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Book:Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

“There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.”

People Book Ideas Form Courses Pleasure Vision Pieces Shadow Window Glasses Boards Peculiar Aesthetic Essays Lectures Stained Glass Syllabus

Book:The Children's Book

Source: The Children's Book

“And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.”

Thinking Trying Doe Cold Spring Window Breaths Notes Glasses Despite

Author:Ally Carter

“The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.”

Made Eye Black Water Dark Color Window Skins Blue Glasses Surface Snow Ice His Eyes Clinging Will Herondale Dark Glasses

Book:Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.”

Giving Firsts Whole Moving Grows Cities Window Breaths Wings Winter Glasses Patterns Breathe Lovely Ice Fairy Continents Castles Geometry Frost Blink Moving In Ammunition Vapor

Author:Vera Nazarian

“When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.”

Said Black Realizing Rooms Saws Doors Broken Window Glasses Expensive Majesty Broken Glass

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.”

Children Silence Knowing Minutes Arms Hundred Red Window Twenties Glasses Tiny Odd Knees Halls Curtains Crowded Velvet Only Child

Book:Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

Source: Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

“Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs”

Seems Life Is Choices Laughing Crazy Rocks Window Glasses Demon Invites Being Crazy

Book:Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

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