“... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.” ThinkingI CanRunningAsksGardenWindowPhonesForestsAsk MeVegetablesUrbanCreeksVegetable Garden Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating
“I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.” ThinkingWaterBrainStupidHealthyWindowAngryAddInstantAdrenaline Author:David Crosby
“I don't think the role of the critic has changed very much. In the most positive sense, the music critic is one who helps the public navigate what's out there, especially in bringing attention to things they otherwise wouldn't hear about, or to provide a new window into something familiar.” ThinkingHelpingAttentionRolesChangedWindowCriticsFamiliarNavigate Author:Michael Hersch
“UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.” ThinkingWayYearsKindPhilosophyHomeUsedEvilBehindsDesignGrewNormalWindowCleanStriveCoreUsersStrifeMicrosoftProgrammersOperating SystemsUnix Author:Linus Torvalds
“I can think of so many tough guys that by definition it's their job to be tough and they're all in chapel. That's such a misconception and it's kind of gone out the window. Guys feel more comfortable going to chapel. I remember when I first started, guys were nervous about it and it was kind of a secret. There was still that stigma that came with it, but it's definitely been removed and (the faith movement) is definitely growing.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsKindStillsI CanJobsRememberGuySecretGoneGrowingMovementComfortableToughWindowDefinitionsNervousRemember WhenMisconceptionStigmaChapelTough Guy Author:Matt Cullen
“Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.” PeopleThinkingLooksForceBehindsRegretWindowMirrorsAppealsEscapistsOpen Road Author:Gavin Rossdale
“I'm convinced we all are voyeurs. It's part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know what goes on behind those windows. And not in a way that we would use to hurt anyone. There's an entertainment value to it, but at the same time we want to know: What do humans do? Do they do the same things as I do? It's a gaining of some sort of knowledge, I think.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantHumansUseValuesHurtSecretBehindsGoes OnWindowEntertainmentConvincedDetectives Author:David Lynch
“I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.” ThinkingKidsSpaceTreeWindowPhobiaSmall Spaces Author:Steven Spielberg
“I think our particular sound has come by just not adhering to any specific sound. For us, it's about the song, and being able to fit in to what is appropriate. When we sit down, we're not talking about what type of band we're gonna be within a specific genre - there's a uniqueness to all of us individually that throws putting anything in a box out the window.” ThinkingAbleSongSoundTalkingParticularTypeFitBandWindowBoxesGenreAppropriateUniquenessNot Talking Author:Nate Ruess
“Paste magazine has served as a tremendous window into culture for my house. I can think of no other publication that provides such critical yet entertaining thoughts on music, movies, books and gaming as Paste. My mailbox would be a dark place indeed without it.” ThinkingI CanBookWould BeCultureHouseDarkWindowCriticalMagazinesEntertainingPublicationGamingDark PlacesMailboxes Author:Derek Webb
“As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons” ThinkingWayArtistPayBehindsRichFiveRocksBandWindowSellingProducersManagersMatesSplitsDrummerCdsRock BandsPlatinumDrive Thru Author:Steven Page
“If you look at the Oscars and look at the Best Foreign Language series, you see that the films are coming from everywhere - from Quebec, Israel, Poland, and Belgium. It's not the usual French, German, etc. This category is opening up to socially engaged and political films. I think we're going to see a cross over to the main categories also. It's part of this global environment now and I'm grateful that the Academy is having this window on world cinema.” IfsThinkingWorldLooksFilmPoliticalLanguageEnvironmentCrossesWindowGratefulSeriesIsraelOpeningCinemaEngagedEtcCategoriesUsualOscarsAcademyPolandBelgiumOpening UpForeign LanguageQuebec Author:Philippe Falardeau
“Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.” ThinkingWantTryingYearsWellsHomeKidsWantedUsedCertainBitsSoundBehindsTenWindowSellsCurtainsPizzaAmbience Author:Robert Plant
“I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.” ThinkingWorldSecretSuccessfulWindowPassingPassingsFancyRestaurantsPassing By Author:Michael Caine
“I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window.” ThinkingKnowsKnow HowWifeWindowMy WifeCheatingParrotsCheating On Me Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“I read that nine out of 10 women fantasize about having an unknown man leap through their bedroom window at night and make mad, passionate love to them. Who would think with those odds, I would now be facing 150 hours of community service.” ThinkingMenNightCommunityHoursWindowMadPassionateNineLeapOddsBedroomPassionate LoveCommunity Service Author:Emo Philips
“My dressing room was right on the water, and I would climb out of my window and walk around on the roof, whenever I needed time to think, or whenever I couldn't get a scene together. My father even came out there on the roof with me. We just walked around and talked up there, just to get away from everything, and nobody could get to us there. I really do love that place very much. It holds a very deep-rooted place in my heart.” ThinkingHeartTogetherFatherWaterWalksRoomsNeededMy HeartSceneWindowClimbsGet AwayRootedRoofDressingsVery DeepTime To ThinkDressing Rooms Author:Angie Harmon
“Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.” ThinkingLooksSometimesProblemHugeTerribleJokesWindow Author:Meryl Streep
“Whenever you see riot footage on TV - you know, someone throwing a brick in Pakistan or somebody throwing a fiery piece of pooh through a Starbucks window up in Seattle - you ever see anybody throwing anything underhand? I think it just takes all the aggression out of the act.” ThinkingKnowsPiecesTvsWindowThrowingAggressionPakistanBricksRiotFierySeattleStarbucks Author:Brian Posehn
“...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.” ThinkingMadeShowsSpacePhotographyWindow Author:Frank Horvat
“In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.” PeopleThinkingStoriesHomeWindowScary Author:Freida Pinto
“I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this.” ThinkingLooksBeautifulHouseRoomsAreasWindowDecidedGlassesStudiosParisSunshineOld ManCountrysideBasementsDiningParlorDining RoomsIdyllicStained GlassStained Glass Windows Author:Feist
“The road to hell is paved with reasonable religion with a non-anxious god. Most days, I'm pretty happy driving down that road. But I keep running into this Crazy Fellow along the way. At every stop light, he jumps up and down to get my attention. He pounds on my window asking me where the heck I think I'm going. He stands on the front bumper, shouting at me to turn around. When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car. He's such a drama queen.” ThinkingWayLightRunningTurnsAttentionHellFailingCrazyCarFrontsDramaWindowAskingFellowsDrivingQueensReasonablePoundsAnxiousUp And DownShoutingBumperKeep RunningWhen All Else Fails Author:Mark Galli
“How can you glorify God in your body, when it doesn't function right?....What makes you think the Holy Ghost wants to live inside of a body where He can't see out through the windows, and He can't hear out the ears?” ThinkingWantBodyHolyWindowEarsFunctionYour BodyGhostMake You ThinkHoly GhostGlorify Author:Frederick K. C. Price
“I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a strip mall, memories of flirting at the ice rink, waking up to a deer at the window... Up to now, that hasn't been mine.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingLooksMatterMemoriesSubjectsMinesWindowWake UpIceSunsetWakingFlirtingSubject MatterMallsDeer Author:Matthea Harvey
“I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi." What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.” ThinkingFirstsEndsHappensAbleRememberUsedBrainWorryNew YorkSolitudeWindowPhonesCellsLengthShiftingCell PhoneTaxi Author:Dani Shapiro
“I think there is something about being described and having your abilities described as something definable. I was diagnosed at about six, when a teacher couldn't understand how I could be a bright girl and yet couldn't read yet. I did that whole backwards letters thing. I used to sit in the same place when I did homework because I remembered that B's went towards the window and D's went away from it.” ThinkingWholeUsedGirlAbilityTeacherSixWindowLettersRememberedBackwardsHomework Author:Lucy Corin
“I love the fact that Satya Nadella's checked the checkbox for cross-platform for a number of our services. I still think it's very important to do the right kind of innovative integration across Windows and our hardware platforms with our cloud services. I think the company's doing a lot of good stuff. Real competition in AWS. Real competition in terms of the clients, particularly from a hardware perspective, there's also [competition] from Chrome. But all in all pretty good.” ThinkingKindStillsImportantRealFactsStuffTermNumbersCompanyPerspectiveCrossesWindowCompetitionCloudsPlatformsClientsIntegrationInnovativeHardwareChromeSatya Author:Steve Ballmer
“All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that.” ThinkingKindMatterMinutesWindowPlanningRefreshingOne Minute Author:Jodie Foster
“Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.” IfsThinkingWantLooksLittlesBookCharacterGirlStuffResponsibilityRolesModelsPercentDaughterFemaleWindowMalesStoresComicOddMy DaughterRole ModelsComic BookShelves Author:Mark Millar
“I think my biggest career mistake has been taking on too much. And I think this is kind of - I think it's related to the Internet world, where you're always multitasking and you have a million windows open and you feel like you can do a lot at the same time.” ThinkingWorldFeelsKindHas BeensCan DoMistakeCareersMillionsToo MuchLike YouInternetWindowRelatedMultitasking Author:Jessica Valenti
“It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just saying you go into your record store and all those categories and all those different ways of segregating music have been thrown out the window, so the difference between myself in real life in that is that I'm the opposite.” ThinkingWayHas BeensDifferentRealDifferencesRecordsNormalWindowOppositesAlbumsStoresReal LifeDifferent WaysThrownCategoriesIpodsJust SayingRecord StoresPlaylists Author:DJ Spooky
“I thought Donald Trump approach on Brexit was a fascinating window into how he thinks. His basic point was that [David] Cameron should resign because he didn't read the public mood on the issue right. And that Boris Johnson should be the next prime minister because he did. That's a very different definition of leadership than many politicians have. Or at least say they have.” ThinkingShouldDifferentNextIssuesTrumpPoliticianApproachWindowDefinitionsMoodMinistersFascinatingPrimePrime MinisterJohnsonCameronDefinition Of Leadership Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza
“When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.” PeopleThinkingKindPersonsAgeSeriousAngelWindowNew AgePurpleCrystalsFuzzyAbhorrentCeramicsSerious Person Author:Marianne Williamson
“Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.” ThinkingSometimesMovingVisionWindowInjusticeGutsTunnelsTunnel Vision Author:Shane Claiborne
“One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.” ThinkingWayMomentsProblemBigsAsksFineSittingWindowRealizationOne WayBreathingPointingBig Problems Author:Eckhart Tolle
“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.” IfsThinkingLittlesLongSaidIndividualResponsibilityPoetWindowTownsCollectivesSmall TownWorkshopsLittle TownsCollective Responsibility Author:Eavan Boland
“I think the film [Aquarius] comes from that original feeling I had 18 years ago, when I was in a São Paulo supermarket. I was in line to pay for something, and when I looked up, I saw the little windows of a projection booth. That's when I realized the supermarket used to be a movie theater. They didn't even bother to change the walls. Years ago, "The Sound of Music" could've been playing in that space.” ThinkingYearsLittlesFeelingsFilmUsedSoundLinesSpacePaySawsWallYears AgoWindowTheaterOriginalsI RealizedUsed To BeBotherProjectionSupermarketsMovie TheaterSound Of MusicAquarius Author:Sonia Braga
“Nobody that I know really likes the feeling of having no power and not being able to influence people. But most of us aren't too conscious of what we are trying to do and get that control and that power so people end up sort of playing all kinds of unconscious manipulative games or they're sort of half aware, they have an idea of a strategy or goal they want to use and they think about it. But then in the heat of the moment, it kind of all flies out the window.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingKindIdeasEndsMomentsUseFeelingsAbleGamesGoalHalfInfluenceConsciousWindowStrategyLikesAll KindsHeatUnconsciousManipulativeInfluencing PeopleHeat Of The Moment Author:Robert Greene
“The White House comes out and says it's going to do a major study of the effects on preschool-age children using Ritalin, Prozac and other drugs. I know in advance what the study's going to say. The results are in before they even start. They're going to do a window-dressing control while praising the overall need for the drugs. In the end they're going to try to peddle more drugs than before while making us think they're clamping down; that's my guess.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsTryingChildrenEndsAgeHouseWhiteResultsStudyEffectsDrugMajorsWindowPraiseWhite HouseDressingsProzacPreschoolRitalinWindow Dressing Author:Michael Savage
“Don't you guys, like when you're driving at night and you're like, and you can kind of see through the window and you think, oh that looks so cozy in there. I wish I could like get a free pass. Yeah, so that's probably the one I'd pick. I'd be a total creeper but.” ThinkingLooksKindNightGuyWishPicksWindowYeahDrivingCozyCreepers Author:Rachel McAdams
“I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.” ThinkingI CanCareWindowDislikeTacticsMarketplaceMicrosoftOperating Systems Author:Linus Torvalds
“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?"” IfsThinkingLooksTwoGuyWalksDealsWonderStreetsDrugStandingWindowTownsLondonShopsShoppingCopStanding ThereCapesMugTwo GuysCape TownShop Windows Author:Peter James
“Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsArtFormActorsGivenActingRolesLuckyMajorsPercentWindowProfessionCraftsAwardsBroadwayPercentagesAcademyUnemployedNominationsAcademy Awards Author:Viola Davis
“I think that honesty in presenting the gospel goes out the window when you want people to respond to the message, but you are prepared to accept any sort of response. Of course, the only true response is heartfelt repentance and faith. However, if you don't feel the need to be honest in your presentation, then you will calibrate your presentation of the gospel to whatever gets the response you want.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsFeelsCoursesAcceptingHonestHonestyMessagesWindowPreparedResponseBeing HonestRepentancePresentationPresentingHeartfelt Author:Mark Dever
“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.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsBelieveRealityWalksFictionFantasyAliveMysteryStreetsWindowScience FictionScaredMythologyVersionsBlockGenreTwilightClosestLampsMistSilhouettes Author:Brit Marling
“For a lot of people, me included, abortion is murder. And it just becomes clearer and clearer the closer you get to birth. I mean, it's just so - I think if you had a womb with a window, it would never happen.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanHappensBirthWindowMurderAbortionWomb Author:Glenn Beck
“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.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingKindLongMadeHardStatesBodyKidsFeltDifficultSunCrazyConditionsObjectsStudentsWindPeriodsWindowSeasonsSickUniversityObservationGrandfatherFillingMy GrandfatherKoreanCrazy PeopleFilling UpUniversity StudentsSick Kids Author:Kim Hyesoon
“I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a beautiful altar, artwork, and stained-glass windows. Together they create an environment conducive to worship and contemplation. We are not in church for entertainment, but to worship.” ThinkingGivingTogetherBeautifulChurchEnvironmentBuildingWorshipMusic IsWindowStriveContemplation Author:Dave Brubeck
“Thanks to the Internet, I think, a lot of hate has moved to more anonymous venues. A lot of people get their aggression out that way. Or they do some drive-by hating—you know, where they’re in a car and they yell something stupid out the window at a stoplight and then take off. It’s just not as involved and laborious to be a hater as it used to be. There’s not as much face-to-face interaction. Facebook’s made ’em lazy.” PeopleThinkingHateCarStupidInternetWindowMovedThanksLazyAggressionHate You Author:Negin Farsad