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“I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it's a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.”

Looks Long I Can Hands Hate Girl Answers Car Window I Hate Legs Driving Boat Email Jungle Pretty Girl Holding Hands Ipads Long Legs

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“There'll always be Christmas as long as a light Glows in the window to guide folks at night, As long as a star in the heavens above, Keeps shining down... there'll be Christmas and love.”

Long Light Night Heaven Stars Window And Love Shining Folks Guides Christmas Shining Down

Author:Edna Jaques

“I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.”

May Long Has Beens Easy Doors Fronts Long Time Draws Standing Window Rhythm Shock Conception Elbows Counterparts Begin Again Front Doors

Author:Sean William Scott

“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.”

Long Earth Mankind Messages Fairs Window Mark Secure Bless Guests Bores Dove Relics Ark

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter

“At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.”

Long Character Lines Shapes Window Long Lines

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.”

“I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.”

Heart Children Long Play Feelings Care My Own Sadness My Heart Flow Window Dear Warm Far Away Long Ago Frozen Solemn Back Again Gladness Dear Friend Thawing

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions.”

Long Light Eye Earth Common Brain Millions Wind Drink Window Let Me Silent Depth Wide Dedicated Roof Palaces Aisle

Book:Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse

Source: Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse

“I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!... The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs -- all the old clubs -- are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today.... Where is this 'vanished world' they talk about? I don't think the critics have looked out the window!”

Thinking World Long Stills Today School Waiting Materials Grew Grew Up Window Critics Clubs Lists Harbors 1930s Yacht Private School Nouveau Riche

Author:Louis Auchincloss

“They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.”

People Want Long Enough Games Sound Hours Products Mass Window Boxes Devices Users Desks Impress Microsoft Interfaces Appliances Novices Uninterested User Interface

Author:Erik Naggum

“Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?”

Ifs Children Long Moments Body Today Death Gone Window Logic Prepared Illness Storm Yesterday Broke Why Not Warning Troops Small Child Baffled

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!”

Littles Long Remember Night House Wish Born Sun Window Breaths Peeping

Author:Honorius Augustodunensis

“And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.”

Feels Long Window Wave Beach Touching

Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 percent. I've definitely been guilty of leaning on the mic stand, but you can only do that so long before you're like, "Jesus, I'm bombing." The fact that people pay to come see me, that's really just out the window.”

People Thinking Giving Long Facts Jesus Pay Stage Percent Window Guilty Bombing Humiliating Mics

Author:Bill Burr

“To be sure, not all moments are equally fleeting. Some moments last longer than others. And certain events do reoccur more than once and even recur repeatedly. Sometimes you do get more than one chance. Sometimes you don't. It helps to know how long a window of opportunity you have and if you'll get another chance.”

Ifs Knows Long Sometimes Moments Helping Lasts Certain Opportunity Chance Know How Events Window Fleeting Another Chance One Chance Window Of Opportunity

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss Lavinia had speculated much on the probabilities and improbabilities of her coming in this gorgeous state, and, on beholding the chariot from the window at which they were secreted to look out for it, agreed that it must be detained at the door as long as possible, for the mortification and confusion of the neighbours.”

Source: Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Edition

“For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.”

People Knows World Way Looks Long Desire This World Long Time Window Stranger Rear Window

Author:Will Oldham

“I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.”

Ifs Men Long Wonder Watches Focus Crime Prove Ethics Window Commit Ethical Lenses Binoculars Rear Window

Author:John Michael Hayes

“P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.”

Humans Long Problem Used Belief Simple Walks Office Findings Window Letters Towns Average Boxes Pops Solve Decades Posts Pillars Envelopes Pavement Post Office Long Walks

Author:Stephen Fry

“I like to put my iPad on the window and leave it there for however long the journey is, so that I'm staring out, and it's staring out. We're kind of staring out together. It's very poetic to me, watching that absent-minded passing of time. You realize how much you've taken in. What is left of that memory of you staring out of the window for an hour? It's all on the iPad.”

Kind Long Together Left Realizing Hours Memories Taken Journey Window Passing Passings Staring Poetic Absent Ipads Absent Minded

Author:Damon Albarn

“If you have nothing to hide, if you're actually working for eight hours, or 10 or 12 hours, however long people decide to work, it's OK to have windows around conference rooms, it's OK to have cubicles. Because you're actually working. If you're not working, doing social media and spending half the day for personal stuff, then an environment like this will actually bother you.”

People Ifs Long Social Stuff Hours Rooms Half Environment Media Window Social Media Eight Spending Bother Working It Conferences Cubicles Personal Stuff

Author:Marcelo Claure

“I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake, and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they were painted.”

Long Rooms Knowing Saws Painting Shapes Mountain Long Time Happenings Window Tables Things Happen Landscape Lakes Shells Misty Shingles

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“As long as you have a window, life is exciting.”

Long Life Is Window Exciting

Author:Gladys Taber

“It feels like every movie I've ever done, I always expected to have rocks thrown through my windows or have people protesting and it never happens and so I wasn't really ever that worried just so long as it wasn't mean spirited.”

People Feels Mean Long Done Happens Rocks Window Expected Worried Thrown Spirited Mean Spirited

Author:George Ratliff

“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body.”

People Long Body Kids Felt Sun Crazy Objects Wind Periods Window Seasons Sick Observation Grandfather Filling My Grandfather Crazy People Filling Up Sick Kids

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.”

Long Window Hearing Landscape Long Ago

Book:A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings

Source: A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings

“I remember the day before my dad died, I was in a hospital room with him, and he had lived a long life. He was 94, and I helped him get up, and there were two windows separated by the partition. I took him to the first window, and he kind of found his way to the second window, and on the way there was a mirror, and he looked into it, and I saw through the corner of my eye, I remember the look on his face. What came over his face was "So I'm here. I've crossed that bridge."”

Way Firsts Looks Kind Long Two Eye Remember Faces Found Rooms Saws Dad Window Died Mirrors My Dad Corners Get Up Bridges Hospitals Long Life Partition Dad Died My Dad Died

Author:Andy Kim

“It has been a long march to equality. We have cracked the door, and opened the window.”

Long Has Beens Doors Window March Cracked

Author:Donna Brazile

“I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from - these were from small towns - would you say, I'm a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they'd think I didn't wash my windows. And that stayed with me for so long, the sense of the collective responsibility of someone as against the individual thing it takes to be a poet.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Long Said Individual Responsibility Poet Window Towns Collectives Small Town Workshops Little Towns Collective Responsibility

Author:Eavan Boland

“There have been times I thought that when I got a certain point in the story, a certain character was going to do a certain thing, only to get to that point and have the character make clear that he or she doesn't want to do that at all. That long phone conversation I thought the character was going to have? He hangs up the phone before the other person answers, and twenty pages of dialog I had half written in my head go out the window.”

Want Persons Long Has Beens Character Stories Certain Answers Half Clear Written Conversation Pages Window Twenties Phones Hang Ups

Author:Steve Erickson

“Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.”

Source: The Snake Has All the Lines

“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.”

“When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94, which is a very long life in Cambodia, I saw how important it was that she was in a community with my sisters, brothers and all grandchildren were so involved in her life. I liked that experience so much more than visiting my sister-in-law's grandparents in a nursing home. It's about looking at a community through your window versus being part of a community that's alive, that is youthful and old and hungry and smelly and loud, where everything is vibrant and colorful.”

Long Important Home Age Community Brother Window Hungry Grandmother Mature My Sister Grandparent Grandchildren My Grandmother Long Life Nursing Colorful Smelly

Author:Loung Ung

“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

“My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.”

Looks Long Book Done Enough Lasts Lost Process Sleep Pleasure Talking Sun Gone Sky Youth Equal Window Rose Delight Dinner London Shoulders Triumph Shock Chairs Pushing Shelves

Book:Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

“...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160)”

Long Enough Might Beautiful Realizing Scene Window Decided Train Passing Passings Framed Limbo Passing By

Author:Katherine Paterson

“How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it won't be for long. What do you know about the sea? Nothing. What do I know about the sea? Nothing. Without a driver this bus is lost. Our lives are over. Come aboard if your destination is oblivion-- It should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it's a sad view. Oh enough of this disembling. Let me say plainly: I love you, I love you, I love you. I love you, I love you, I love you. Not the spiders, please.”

Ifs Knows Want Should Long Enough Pain Together Joy Next Lost Views Our Lives Sea Love You Please Equal Window Let Me Glad Seats Destination Drivers Do You Know Bus Oblivion Spiders Joy And Pain

Author:Yann Martel

“We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.”

Feels Kind Long Hard Wanted Lasts Waiting Enjoy Half Taste Window Empty Drunk Beer Awake Over You Swimming Tasty Go Hard

Author:Ken Kesey

“The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you cracking to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other's hands.”

“It was Lorraine in her nightie and Mo in his cap. They'd just settled their brains for a long winter's nap in front of the television. When out in the lot there arose such a clatter, they sprang from their recliners to see what was the matter. Away to the window they flew like a flash, tore open the blinds and threw up the sash. And what to their wondering eyes should appear, but Stephanie Plum and yet another of her cars burning front to rear.”

Should Long Matter Eye Brain Wonder Car Fronts Television Window Winter Burning Flash Caps Flew Naps Plums Stephanie Plum Lorraine Recliners

Author:Janet Evanovich

“These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the potential to return, to alter right there in our mind and change everything.”

Source: The Best American Short Stories 2003

“The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.”

Long Moments Beautiful Names Sun Magic Air Mystery Fields Color Red Window Breaths Stuck Valleys Purple Grapes Deep Breath Dusk Grove Melons Burgundy Tangerines

Book:On the Road

Source: On the Road

“He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and trousers, and was there thoroughly alarmed by the cat's stalking round and round and making motions as if it proposed to sit upon him. He waited until he believed himself to be unobserved, then he picked it up, opened a window, and tossed it out. Despite falling three storeys to the ground, the cat survived, but one of its legs was never quite right afterward and it always evinced the greatest dislike of gentlemen in black clothes.”

Ifs Long Fall Three Found Black White Rooms Happened Clothes Cat Window Rounds Legs Despite Gentleman Dislike Survived Coats Stalking Trousers Immaculate Black Clothes

Author:Susanna Clarke

“She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was brightly lit, light streaming through a tall picture window. In the middle of the room stood Jace. He wasn't alone, though-not by a long shot. There was a dark-haired girl with him, a girl Clary had never seen before, and the two of them were locked together in a passionate embrace”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it better if I could go into all the offices and storage rooms, I want to look in all the drawers and—discover stuff. And I want to know about people. I mean, I know it’s probably kind of rude but I want to know why you have all these boxes and what’s in them and why all your windows are papered over and how long it’s been that way and how do you feel when you wash things and why don’t you do something about it?”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Feels Looks Kind Mean Long Stuff Rooms Example Office Window Boxes British Curious If I Could Museums Rude Drawers Storage British Museum

Book:Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

Source: Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

“The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again. . . But how. The hot summer rustles Like a carnival outside my window; I have long had this premonition Of a bright day and a deserted house.”

Needs Long Stills Soul Today Turns House Memories Teach Summer Stones Window Hot Prepared Manage Breasts Slaughter Deserted Premonition Carnivals Hot Summer Bright Days Nevermind

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“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).”

“Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whale's back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming.”

Littles Long Joy Night Passion Black Memories Dark Rooms Grief Sea Cry Window Ships Tides Thirst Humiliation Horns Counting Voyages Boundless Whales Glitter Frenzy Nectar Conveying Pitch Black

Author:Yukio Mishima

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