Best window & made Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

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

“Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record of the minds that conceived them and the hands that crafted them.”

Mind Made Hands Memories Records Doors Color Shapes Window Architecture Roof Slopes

Author:Anthony Lawlor

“George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.”

Made Break Five Minutes Mets One Day Window Connections Dear Connected Grey Five Minutes Rehearsal Dear Friend

Author:Bernadette Peters

“...and suddenly it hits you: Human skin is actually made up of billions of tiny units of protoplasm, called "cells"! And what is even more interesting, the ones on the outside are all dying! This is a fact. Your skin is like an aggressive modern corporation, where the older veteran cells, who have finally worked their way to the top and obtained offices with nice views,are constantly being shoved out the window head first, without so much as a pension plan,by younger hotshot cells moving up from below.”

Way Firsts Humans Made Facts Moving Interesting Views Nice Plans Modern Dying Office Window Skins Billions Tiny Cells Corporations Aggressive Units Veteran Pension Moving Up Pension Plans

Author:Dave Barry

“[On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.”

People Thinking Should Children Made Done Ability Television Window Damage Household Small Child

Author:Laurie Colwin

“It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.”

Made Bigs Education Window Opening

Book:Precious Bane

Source: Precious Bane

“When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window.”

Littles Made Nice Pride Window Balls Studios

Author:Dorothy Arzner

“One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."”

Years Looks Made Said Hands Beautiful House Built Window Woods Architecture Weekend Hobbies Aluminum Old Houses

Author:Daniel Clowes

“The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.”

People Ifs Made Important Rooms Smart Window Nervous Smoking Chairs Pipe Knocking Tin Good Smart

Book:No Poems

Source: No Poems

“With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.”

Made Self Hands Poetry Poet Rain Window Curse Pens Disciple

Author:Anne Sexton

“Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.”

Men Made Home Grows Women Sun Fields He Man Masters Garden Window Train Rounds Setting Settings Toil Shields Vines Hoe Enclosure

Author:Joanna Baillie

“Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know.”

Knows Want Mind Littles Made Dies Pay Mystery Ready Window Raises Profit Neighbor Cards Our Future Vacation Consumerism Your Future Annuals Overconsumption Drawers

Book:A Country of Marriage: Poems

Source: A Country of Marriage: Poems

“The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they see the whole earth like that big blue marble that was made famous by the flights that went to the moon. But the shuttle is much, much closer than those astronauts were. So we don't see the whole planet, the whole ball at once, we just see parts of it.”

People Looks Made Whole Bigs Earth Space Views Imagine Planets Moon Window Balls Blue Flight Imagine That Spectacular Astronaut Marble

Author:Sally Ride

“Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.”

Made Rain Window Curse

Author:Anne Sexton

“Robert Louis Stevenson, one evening, stood transfixed at his nursery window watching the lamplighter in the street. When his nanny asked the boy what he was doing he replied: 'I'm watching the man knocking holes in the darkness.' We live in a universe made dark by sin. Let's knock holes in the darkness.”

Men Made Universe Dark Sin Boys Darkness Streets He Man Window Holes Evening Knocking Nursery Nannies

Author:Selwyn Hughes

“There's something about seeing a movie that you like, and being able to see the scenes that didn't make it, just as a window into the process of how choices are made and how a movie is made. To me, the idea of getting to have the scenes on the DVD is very exciting.”

Made Ideas Able Choices Process Seeing Scene Window Exciting Dvds

Author:Matt Reeves

“A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.”

Made Seems Individual Left Cases Failing Particular Broken Thousand Window Connections Universal Accounts Make Sense Broken Windows

Book:Thinking about Crime

Source: Thinking about Crime

“...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.”

Thinking Made Shows Space Photography Window

Author:Frank Horvat

“Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large window of opportunity to repair the damage done by 25 years of war. That window, which has stayed open for nearly five years, with amazing good will from the Afghans, is threatening to close unless the world wakes up and deals with the crisis.”

“I'm interested in other animals too though. There's the slug in "Mollusks", and I wrote a story about bees and one about a cat which got thrown out a window by mistake, but those never made it into the collection.”

Made Stories Animal Mistake Cat Window Made It Collections Thrown Bees Slugs Mollusks

Author:Arthur Bradford

“The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others.”

Made Self Share Window Psychological Principal

Author:Denise Duhamel

“I'll remember the view out this window [from Oval Cabinet], because this is where we had our - the playground that we put in when Malia and Sasha came in. Being able every once in awhile to look out the window and see your daughters during the summer, swinging on that swing set, that made the presidency a little bit sweeter.”

Looks Littles Made Able Remember Bits Views Summer Little Bit Daughter Window Swings Presidency Cabinets Playgrounds Our Daughter Your Daughter Oval Swing Sets

Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

“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

“Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the window”

Made Soul Fun Decision Risk Window Variety Sparks Spontaneity Sleazes

Author:Cintra Wilson

“Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety – best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light – good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”

Source: Why I Wake Early: New Poems

“Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.”

Made Wanted Window Tragedy Suicide Debate Kitchen Stations Rehearsal Subway Girl Interrupted

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.”

Made Light House White Sun Tree Fans Wall Bird Shadow Garden Window Blind Melody Blank Bedroom Pauses Leafs Transparent Fingerprints

Author:Virginia Woolf

“She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that came through the picture window was daylight, real golden late-afternoon daylight, not a white mist light. The sky was a robin's-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ... Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting.”

Source: Coraline

“The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out of the window; bandaged forearms made the Red Salute. It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding slowly down, and all the while the guns on the open trucks making one's heart leap as guns always do, and reviving that pernicious feeling, so difficult to get rid of, that war *is* glorious after all.”

Source: Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London

“Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.”

“He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.”

Made Eye Faces Names Sound Blood Arms Mouths Window Ears Bones Shoulders Buried Laughed Salt Her Eyes Jace Simplest Luke Ardor

Author:Cassandra Clare

“A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“It's like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but it burned. What were you doing? Was it your fault? It doesn't matter anymore. You open the window, but only the very top layer of the smell goes away. The rest remains around you. It's the walls. You leave the room, but it's on your clothes. You change your clothes, but it's in your hair. It's on the thin skin on the tops of your hand. And in the morning, it's still there.”

Made Stills Matter Hands Rooms Morning Hair Wall Clothes Window Skins Remains Faults Smell Enjoyed Layers Burned Toasts

Author:Elliot Perlman

“The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains in the windows of dreary houses, and Nick was unsurprised to see the curtains making their attempts in every window of this place. There was a china garden gnome on the doorstep, wearing a desperate, crazy smile. "It's not so bad," Alan said. "You never take me nice places anymore, baby." said Nick, and was mildly gratified by Alan's ring of laughter, like a living bell that had been caught by surprise when it was struck.”

Source: The Demon's Lexicon

“The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep”

Made Night Fall House Seeing Window Corners Tongue Evening Smoke Leap Yellow Pool Fog October Drains Chimneys Terrace Muzzle Window Panes

Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

“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

“I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.”

“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

“Magnus stood up and went to the window. He pushed the curtain back, letting in just enough light to silhouette his hawklike profile. "Blood," he said, half to himself. "I had a dream two nights ago. I saw a city all of blood, with towers made of bone, and blood ran in the streets like water." Simon slewed his eyes over to Jace. "Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" "No," said Jace, "sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”

Trying Mind Looks Has Beens Made War Dream Lost Worst Shadow Window Capture Despise Adore Whispering Conqueror

Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.”

Littles Made Seems Simple Paper Garden Window Rose Tunes Pens Butterfly Flew Fitting Rose Garden

Book:The Little White Horse

Source: The Little White Horse

“All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.”

People Feels Persons Made Book Might Left Poor Knowing Records Imagine Share Listening Window Towns Decades Collections Shy Isolated Travel Books

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“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

“But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with words that smacked of pinewoods or prairie. One went: Don’t wanna sleep, Don’t wanna die, Just wanna go a-travelin’ through the pastures of the sky; and this one seemed to gratify her the most, for often she continued it long after her hair hard dried, after the sun had gone and there were lighted windows in the dusk.”

Long Made Hard Moments Song Dies Sleep Wonder Sun Gone Sky Hair Window Wander Tunes Harsh Dusk Prairie Pastures

Author:Truman Capote

“Listen to th' wind wutherin' round the house," she said. "You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight." Mary did not know what "wutherin'" meant until she listened, and then she understood. It must mean that hollow shuddering sort of roar which rushed round and round the house, as if the giant no one could see were buffeting it and beating at the walls and windows to try to break in. But one knew he could not get in, and somehow it made one feel very safe and warm inside a room with a red coal fire.”

Ifs Knows Feels Trying Mean Made Said House Rooms Break Fire Wind Wall Safe Understood Red Window Rounds Warm Giants Tonight Mary Coal Hollow Moors Shuddering

Book:The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“I stopped in the full force of a patch of sunlight in the lobby window and let my skin soak up the energy. I hadn’t realized I needed it until it reached inside and stilled me in a way that only David’s touch had been able to achieve. “Why does that feel so good?” I asked. “And don’t tell me it’s because we’ve been shut in a room for days.” “Like calls to like,” he said. “You’re made of fire now.” “So I’m going to feel like this every time I pass an open flame? Great. Firegasm.”

Way Feels Doe Made Said Able Energy Force Rooms Fire Achieve Needed Window Skins Flames Sunlight Patches

Author:Rachel Caine

“I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are more alike than you think? Well,” the Marquess took September’s hand in hers and very gently kissed it. “We are. Oh, how alike we are! I feel very warmly towards you, and I only want to protect you, as I wish someone had protected me. Come, September, look out the window with me. It’s not a difficult thing. A show of faith, let’s call it.”

Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I do, I can't seem to find that door.”

Littles Made I Can Matter Hands Seems Sides Realizing Perfect Rooms Gone Doors Fine Window No Matter What Thrown Squares Somewhere Else Perfect Days

Author:Gayle Forman

“You can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.”

Want Firsts Made Beautiful Moving White Cold Pure Window Breaths Safety Lays Lovely Statements Snow Incomplete Softness Treacherous Numbness

Author:Ann Aguirre

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