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“At the beginning God said: "Let there be light," and light was, and light is, and light shall be. So Christianity is rolling on, and it is going to warm all nations, and all nations are to bask in its light. Men may shut the window-blinds so they cannot see it, or they may smoke the pipe of speculation until they are shadowed under their own vaporing; but the Lord God is a sun!”

Men May Said Light Nations Christianity Lord Sun Window Warm Smoke Rolling Speculation Pipe Going To War Lord God

Book:Sin: A Series of Popular Discourses

Source: Sin: A Series of Popular Discourses

“Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.”

Men Said Two Hands Sleep Rooms Window Accounts Asking Hotel Guests Jumping Joints Hand In Hand Downtown Clerks Ritz

Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“My mother had heard all about miniskirts but had never seen one so I took her for lunch at Alvaro's [in Chelsea]. We walked down the King's Road and waited 10 seconds for our first miniskirt and a girl came along with her skirt tucked round her arse. I said: 'What do you think, ma?' And she said: 'If it's not for sale, you shouldn't put it in the window!'”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Said Mother Girl Heard Kings Window Rounds Seconds Lunch Skirts Chelsea Arses

Author:Michael Caine

“There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something done and boosting the economy. Obviously not everything is going to be a bonanza, some things are going to be awful, but wouldn't it be great if we had a fantastic window dresser to do something with those windows on Fairfield green and those Victoria's Secret windows. I love girls in bras in panties, but these are just mannequins. Wouldn't it be great if some local artists got together and said, "Hey, Victoria's Secret, let's do something!" We need that.”

Ifs Needs Said Done Whole Bigs Together Artist Girl Secret Economy Window Green Tolerance Locals Awful Hey Fantastic Big Things Underwear Victoria Bras Panties Dressers Victoria's Secret

Author:Tina Weymouth

“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

“I think time is a constraint to destroy and then reinvent. If you give me a constraint, I'll accept it. But I always try to move it around, or to readapt it. Ecco! If you lock me in a room, well I'll go out through the window! I always remember Achille Castiglioni, one of my mentors, and he always said that in industrial design you have the idea, the fantasy, the concepts - that's the marmalade! - but the constraint of the brief is the bread. You need both in order to find structure for your ideas.”

“One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?”

Ifs Want Said Whole Facts Reality Universe Wonderful Expression Masters Personality Window Embrace Zen Master

Book:Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

Source: Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

“This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.”

Said Kids Boys Gun Window Bunch Hotel Sugar Daddy San Francisco Triggers Tanks Ceilings Loaded Sugar Daddy

Author:Jim Goldberg

“It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."”

Ifs Said Wind Window Ghost Settling Sat Rising Shade Spooky Sawdust

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“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

“I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”

Ifs Said Care Literature Subjects Changed Travel Stones Window Don't Care London I Don't Care Yards Shrines Imbeciles

Author:Carolyn Wells

“Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.”

Looks Said Night Names Language Window Ears Filled Look Up Every Night Paralysis Euclid Catechism Maleficent

Book:The Dead and Other Stories: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

Source: The Dead and Other Stories: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

“Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view.”

“My wife went into the butchers and said: "You've a sheep's head in your window." The butcher said: "That's a mirror."”

Said Humor Funny Wife Window Mirrors My Wife Sheep Butchers

Author:Frank Carson

“So I knocked on the door at this bed & Breakfast and a lady stuck her head out of the window and said: 'What do you want', I said, 'I want to stay here'. She said, 'Well stay there' and shut the window.”

Want Wells Said Humor Funny Doors Bed Window Stuck Breakfast

Author:Tommy Cooper

“I rang the bell of this small bed-and breakfast place, whereupon a lady appeared at an outside window. "What do you want?", she asked. "I want to stay here", I replied. "Well, stay there then", she said and closed the window.”

Want Wells Said Humor Funny Bed Window Breakfast Bells Bed And Breakfasts

Author:Chic Murray

“As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along ... that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through, it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president that it might close.”

Wells May Said Might Process President Window My Family Campaigns Grieving Realistic Grieving Process

Author:Joe Biden

“I remember once when we were moving, driving across country, and it was raining so hard, the windshield wipers going fast and squeaking, and then: nothing. It stopped. I looked out the window ahead of me and it was clear. I looked out the back and there was the rain, still going. Nobody said anything, but there it was, a near miracle, a rain line, a way of seeing just where something starts, when usually you are just in the middle of it before you notice it. That's how it feels to me now, to not want to be like (that) anymore. I see the line.”

Way Want Feels Said Stills Country Hard Remember Moving Lines Clear Seeing Middle Rain Window Miracle Driving

Author:Elizabeth Berg

“The eyes, it is said, are windows to the soul. They are not. They are organs for converting light into electro-magnetic impulses. But this has never stopped us dreaming of them that way.”

Way Said Soul Dream Light Eye Window Impulse Organs Magnetic Converting Window To The Soul

Author:Amanda Knox

“One day I locked my keys in my car and as I was standing there with a hanger halfway through the top of my window, a guy walks up and says, Lock yer keys in the car? Without missin' a beat I said, Nope, Just washed it and was hanging it up to dry. Here's your sign.”

Said Guy Walks Car Keys One Day Beats Standing Window Dry Locked Locks Halfway Standing There Hangers

Author:Bill Engvall

“You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is an object; that it's not a window into something - you're not looking at a landscape, you're not looking at a portrait, but you're looking at a painting. It's basically: A painting is a painting is a painting. And it's what Frank Stella said famously: What you see is what you see.”

Said Bits Objects Painting Window Bars Landscape Thick Frank Canvas Portraits Stella

Author:Frank Stella

“As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging directly with the Iranian government on a sustained basis for the first time in decades has created a unique opportunity, a window, to try to resolve important issues.”

“Originally, I wanted to do humanitarian work. I actually feel that getting into acting, which fate has led me to, is my window and path into humanitarian work. I always said I want to do something important. And I feel this work is what's helping me get there.”

Want Feels Said Important Helping Wanted Acting Path Fate Window Humanitarian

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“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

“Once I was in Texas, where they had this thing called Ralph the Swimming Pig. You went into a theater and you were looking through a great big window at people dressed as mermaids swimming around with oxygen tanks. One of the mermaids had a bottle of milk, and a small Ralph the Swimming Pig dove in and swam over. Naturally, afterward, I said in the cafeteria, "What happens to the Ralphs when they get bigger? Would you serve Ralphs who have retired?" "Oh no! We would never do such a thing."”

People Said Bigs Happens Window Bigger Theater Bottles Texas Swimming Milk Pigs Oxygen Retired Tanks Dove Mermaid Cafeteria

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Hey, folks, look at all the damage that Bill Clinton has done to feminism. First, oral sex is not sex now. You got a Lewinsky, it isn't sex. And sexual harassment, you know what it used to be? All you had to have for sexual harassment was for a superior in your office to use his power to have his way with you, no matter whether you wanted it or not. Now that's out the window. Because we can't, of course, have Bill Clinton said to have engaged in sexual harassment. No way. Not gonna happen.”

Knows Way Firsts Looks Said Matter Done Use Happens Wanted Used Courses Sex Feminism Office Window Bills Clinton Folks Superiors Used To Be Hey Engaged Damage Harassment

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.”

Love Said Soul Body Sex Five Window Prison Senses Mystical Blake Five Senses

Author:Jim Morrison

“I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.”

Said Enough Shows Wanted Moving Song Brother Tvs Window Chocolate Tv Shows Orange Washing County Orange County

Author:Pat Paulsen

“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?”

Men Said Order Fire Risk Window Suicide Every Man Guilty Preserves Taking Risks Risk It Risk-taking Great Risk Risk And Failure Chance And Risk Risking Your Life Risk And Success

Book:The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”

World Mind Has Beens Said Book Humanity Change Teacher Impossible Magic Sea Poet Development Civilization Window Treasure Companion Print Engines Magician Bankers Lighthouse Standstill

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.”

Heart Said Young Window Empty Starting Squares Truth Of Life Starting Out Cafes All The Pretty Horses

Book:All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.”

Knows Looks Said Moving Answers Hair Window Pet Laughed Cigarette Ledges Your Pretty Plaits

Author:Angela Carter

“But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.”

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic

“And I don't know if Batty's gotten over it yet,' said Skye. Mr. Penderwick looked out the window to where Batty was playing vampires with Hound. Hound was on his back, trying to wiggle out of the black towel Batty had tied around his neck. Batty was leaping over Hound's water bowl, shrieking, 'Blood, blood!' 'She looks all right,' he said.”

Ifs Knows Trying Looks Said Black Water Blood Window Vampire Necks Over It Tied Bowls Towels Hounds Skye

Book:The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, The Penderwick at Point Mouette

Source: The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, The Penderwick at Point Mouette

“A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?”

Said Eye Window Bills Shining Yellow Sleepy Shining Eyes

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.”

Said Would Be Eye Wanted Given Voice Silence Strange Communication Safe Lows Window Fixed His Eyes Length Squares Given Up Archer Most Wanted

Book:The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.”

Wells Looks Said Voice Boys Listening News Window Harry Potter Uncles Aunt Potters Outrage Lurking Resigned Aunts And Uncles Funny Harry Potter Petunias

Book:Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.”

Way Said Fall Dark Rooms Shadow Aspect Window Cameras Tiny Painter Association Sunlight Projection Upside Down Jung Dark Room Shadow Work Camera Obscura

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“"Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon. "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it."”

Doe Said Sometimes Blood Standing Window Jace Couches Silhouettes City Of Ashes Muttering

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold.”

Men Kind Said Matter Spirit Fall Felt Easy Secret Gone Fire Cold Messages Window Garbage Messy Grim Geese Snowden Pimples Yossarian Ripeness Catch 22 Important

Book:Catch-22: A Novel

Source: Catch-22: A Novel

“What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window. "Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?" "You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me. I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.”

Ifs Said Moments Hands Eye Steps Laughing Cry Strange Battle Window Instinct Wide Hats Warning Awkward Mistaken Coats Precise Jane Casual Ninja Strange Places Battle Cry Wide Eyes

Book:Austenland: A Novel

Source: Austenland: A Novel

“What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.”

Ifs Said Fire Window What If

Book:Morrigan's Cross

Source: Morrigan's Cross

“You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window." "Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it." "Twice." "Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen.”

Needs Said Eye Courses Prove Window Broke His Eyes Potatoes Incidents Outstanding Marksman

Book:Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party?" she asked. Not tonight," Ranger said. He handed her a twenty, and she left. What about the cat-feeding theory?" I asked him. Out the window.”

Want Said Left Party Theory Cat Window Twenties Tables Finished Dancer Tonight Feeding Rangers

Book:Lean Mean Thirteen

Source: Lean Mean Thirteen

“Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.”

Said Break Window Holes Professors Pointing Snape Headmasters Mcgonagall Professor Mcgonagall

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The window was still open.” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever”

Thinking Said Stills Forever Clear Goes On Window Suicide Remembered Jumping Self Harm

Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn’t,either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him. My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there. Can I call you None for short?”

People Knows Said Reason Wanted Guy Names Numbers Four Happened Brother Window Vampire Staring Bricks Bad Guys Dean Nameless Blurry None Of Your Business

Book:Carpe Corpus: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Carpe Corpus: The Morganville Vampires

“I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled. I coaxed it into the center of the city. Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! A Trans Am pulled up next to me at a light. The Trans Am was filled with high school kids. One of them stuck his head out of the passenger-side window. "Hey lady," he said. "Sounds like you got a fartmobile." I flipped him an Italian goodwill gesture and pulled the ball cap low on my forehead. (Three to get Deadly)”

“You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and was now reciting it. "But while you were looking out the window, you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there," he said, nodding toward the lake and beyond.' ~Dr. Hyde, pg 50”

Ifs Said Belief Understanding Chance Interesting Class Written Window Lifetime Sentences Buddhist Lakes Spokes Daily Life Facets Interconnectedness Nodding Reciting Hyde

Book:Looking for Alaska

Source: Looking for Alaska

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