Best window & streets Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.”

Way Looks Kind Has Beens Whole Bigs Light Black Cities Streets Rain Window Shining Apples Sugar Candy Polished Syrup

Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“Your street, rich street or poor Used to always be sure, on your street There's a place in your heart you know from the start Can't be complete outside of the street Keep moving on through the joy and the pain Sometimes you got to look back To the street again Would you prefer all those castles in Spain? Or the view of your street from your window pane?”

Knows Looks Heart Sometimes Pain Moving Used Joy Poor Views Rich Streets Window Spain Castles Keep Moving Window Panes

Author:Van Morrison

“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .”

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!”

Night White Streets Cold Beats Window Empty Snow Blast Dreary Window Panes Empty Streets

Book:Songs of the sea, with other poems

Source: Songs of the sea, with other poems

“It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.”

Giving Party Worry Streets Window Rome Invited

Book:Rome and a Villa

Source: Rome and a Villa

“By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.”

Mean Care Women Nice Streets Window Selfish Starving Sunny Kitten Underprivileged I Do Care

Book:In Times Like These

Source: In Times Like These

“The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Lever (Illustrated)

“When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, "Hey, dummy," or "Hey, Mayhem."”

Two Feet Streets Car New York Ten Window Snow Hey Two Things Bike Cab Mayhem Dummy

Author:Dean Winters

“My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.”

Night Left Sun Sky Streets Ready Window Evening Tea Seats Every Night Lamps Ladders Lanterns Tea Time

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled.”

Lasts Night Streets Window Nervous Flames Last Night Corpses Stale

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street.”

Beautiful Streets Window Envy Peers Beautiful Women

Author:Mason Cooley

“I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.”

People Thinking World Home Today Imagine Streets Window Nightmare Airports Stay At Home

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.”

Ifs Looks Government Morning Streets Grew Grew Up Window England Wake Up Ass Bad Ass 80s Daleks

Author:Warren Ellis

“I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992.”

Remember House Social Streets Media Summer Window Guitar Social Media Amplifiers Summer Time

Author:John Mayer

“A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.”

Has Beens Use Groups Streets Window Customers Stores Unhappy Expansion Rapids Inconvenient Starbucks Maine Smashing

Author:Conan O'Brien

“We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store windows, or just reach for the yellow pages and have them delivered. It is the same mindset at work, spreading in our world, and after a while this attitude can find nothing very special about anything or anybody, let alone whales.”

World Humans Age Human Beings Cities Attitude Streets Special Majors Pages Window Mindset Stores Our World Yellow Offering Whales

Book:Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

“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

“In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.”

Stills Morning Wife Streets Spring Rain Window Wide My Wife After The Rain

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“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

“People who are homeless, they're not all addicts. A lot of times, they're just people who, through something like losing their job or losing someone in their life, ended up on the streets. So much of our time is spent in cars that sometimes you need to look out of those windows. And you see that a dollar, 50 cents, whatever you have, may not mean much to you, but it means everything to people who are hungry and who are in need.”

People Needs Looks May Mean Sometimes Jobs Streets Car Losing Window Dollars Hungry Our Time Cents Homeless Addict Losing Someone

Author:George Lopez

“Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or in his village. Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink.”

Men World Firsts Streets Events Reader Photography Ordinary Window Presses Village Outlook Shrinks Ordinary Man

Author:Gisele Freund

“Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them.”

Rights Streets Movement Window Civil Rights Compare Protest Traffic Riot Civil Rights Movement Starbucks Smashing Blockage

Author:Ann Coulter

“Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.”

Writing Book Beautiful Streets Window Ruins Description Visiting Merchants Adventurer Baghdad Portuguese Overlooking

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“The only reason I would call the police is if someone is getting aggressed in the street and I'm behind a window.”

Ifs Reason Behinds Streets Window Police

Author:Gaspar Noe

“If you and I took a walk down a shopping street in Jo'burg or Cape Town or London, we see two guys looking in a shop window, we think, "Oh, they're wondering what they're going to buy." A cop looks at them and thinks, "Why are they standing there? Are they doing a drug deal? Are they going to mug someone? Are they going to rob the shop?"”

Ifs Thinking Looks Two Guy Walks Deals Wonder Streets Drug Standing Window Towns London Shops Shopping Cop Standing There Capes Mug Two Guys Cape Town Shop Windows

Author:Peter James

“For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.”

Thinking Needs Feels Believe Reality Walks Fiction Fantasy Alive Mystery Streets Window Science Fiction Scared Mythology Versions Block Genre Twilight Closest Lamps Mist Silhouettes

Author:Brit Marling

“Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”

People World Kind Whole Love Is Cities Taken Saws Streets Land Wall Window Sat Chairs Pot Soup Mama Baskets Holland Sewing

Book:The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

“When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.”

Source: The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher

“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.”

Writing I Can Ends Streets Bears Drug Window Casts Torture Tonight Strain

Book:Dagon

Source: Dagon

“The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves … A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place.”

“He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk — that anything — could give him so much happiness.”

People Giving Children Home Found Church Walks Pleasure Streets Window Christmas Kitchen Yield Beggar Hurrying

Author:Charles Dickens

“I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains”

People Ifs Two Body Lying Felt Brain Blood Streets Standing Window Down And Miles Pavement Looking Down Licking

Author:Doris Lessing

“A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.”

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

Source: Paper Towns

“So here’s where they put you. I didn’t think they even used these cells anymore.” He glanced sideways. “I got the wrong window at first. Gave your friend in the next cell something of a shock. Attractive fellow, what with the beard and the rags. Kind of reminds me of the street folk back home.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Home Used Next Streets Window Fellows Folks Cells Attractive Shock Jace Beard Back Home Rags Sideways

Book:City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”

“I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never to be reopened or reread. And I could say goodbye to them, wish them well, bless them somehow for their good thoughts. A handshake in the street, a dropped item picked up and retrieved and handed back, or a friendly wave from the distant window, a nod, a smile, a moment when the eyes lock over the antics of a child.”

Wells Children Littles Moments Home Eye Past Girl Lost Wish Streets Becoming Window Letters Wave Goodbye Friendly Bless Locks Items Saying Goodbye Good Thoughts Handshake Becoming One Antics

Author:Alice Sebold

“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

“Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

Life Humans Lines Cities Wonder Share Streets Window Variety Yellow Secrecy Casual Enchanted Watchers City Of Ashes Great Gatsby Important Darkening

Book:The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house - , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon, - you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening.”

Knows Stills Country Sometimes House Streets Bird Garden Window Mirrors Longing Yesterday Evening Beloved Shops Dizzy Your Presence Pensive Country Houses

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary- ordinary people and their struggle. There's nothing as interesting as real life out your window. You walk down the street for half an hour, I'll give you half an hour of drama.”

People Want Giving Real Fall Hours Walks Interesting Half Struggle Feet Streets Drama Ordinary Window Extraordinary Real Life Ordinary People

Author:Ricky Gervais

“And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.”

Hands Faces Vision Streets Hundred Window Murder Smoke Tea Lifts Yellow Plates Slides Toasts Indecision Revision Window Panes

Book:The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

Source: The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

“In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. A young girl looks out a window and wishes she were married. A drunk sleeps under a bridge. It is tomorrow.”

“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

“Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the streets of the universe, flinging the sweetness of its cassations to every window, pounding at every door in a hilarity beyond all liking and happening, until the prodigals come out at last and dance, and the elder brothers finally take their fingers out of their ears.”

Source: Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace

“I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?”

World House Streets Materials Window Yellow Fog Dreary Swirls

Book:Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear

Source: Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear

“And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one , and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions , it was good for us to ask them anyway . pg. 284”

Long Past Asks Father Voice Answers Views Streets Window Fundamentals Rushing Cobblestone Cobblestone Streets

Book:Istanbul (Deluxe Edition): Memories and the City

Source: Istanbul (Deluxe Edition): Memories and the City

“Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.”

Said Eye Stars Fire Streets Sorrow Window Burned Max Astonishment Himmel Street

Author:Markus Zusak

“I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn’t come back”

Streets Dog Cat Window Fishes Mice Insects Drains Collars Cat And Dog Reptiles

Book:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.”

Source: Trilogy; an experiment in multimedia

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