Best window & way Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.”

Way Mother Sea Brother Wind Window Regard Noise My Brother Fashionable Chimes

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.”

“I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.”

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

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

“Number one way life would be different if dogs ran the world: All motorists must drive with head out window.”

Ifs World Way Different Would Be Funny Numbers Dog Travel Window One Way Ran

Author:David Letterman

“I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.”

People World Way Art Facts Might Window

Author:Burton Silverman

“But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!”

Way May Today Sleep Sun Months Bird Window Shakes Cherish Backwards Venus

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“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

“Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.”

World Way Feels Moments Effort Findings Window Caught Perceive New Ways Feels Just

Author:David Toop

“I think that at the end of the day I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Doe Real Ends Sometimes Hard Certain Levels New York Like You Window Storytelling The End Of The Day Puzzles New York Times Cracked Ambiguous Crosswords

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.”

Thinking Way Program Window Scary Crap Files Vistas Leopards

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.”

Thinking Knows Way Facts Window Revenge Apples Macintosh

Author:Steve Wozniak

“...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

“The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.”

Way Want Giving Use Form Fiction Crime Reader Built Window What You Want Genre Framework Crime Fiction

Author:Michael Connelly

“The eyes are the windows of a woman's heart; you may enter that a way!”

Way Heart May Eye Window

Author:Eugene Sue

“If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.”

Ifs Way Party Clothes Cat Window Drinking Gathering Intervention Alcoholism Alcoholics

Author:Amy Sedaris

“Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.”

People Thinking Way Giving Ideas Car Fairs Window Originals Transactions Original Ideas Erosion

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power see things happen of which they disapprove, they smash store windows, blow themselves up in crowded places, and fly planes into buildings. The fact that both methods have proved remarkably unsuccessful at changing things doesn't stop people from going on in the same way.”

People Way Facts Happens Building Window Method Blow Stores Things Happen Planes Bombs Tanks Crowded Unsuccessful Crowded Places

Author:N. T. Wright

“I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my window, sketching neighborhood children at play. I sketched and listened, and those notebooks became the fertile field of my work later on. There is not a book I have written or a picture I have drawn that does not, in some way, owe them its existence.”

Way Years Children Doe Book Play Hours Existence Written Fields Window Drawing Neighborhood Notebook Fertile Sketching

Author:Maurice Sendak

“At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Book Whole Body Light Wanted Stars Space Rooms Painting Hair Bed Moon Window Empty Lays Rounds Dancer Astronaut Helmet Empty Space Milky Way Points Of Light Bed Time

Author:Jeanette Winterson

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

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

Author:Will Oldham

“You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.”

Way Children School Education Class Window Our Children Your Children Shops Latin Educate Shop Windows

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.”

Way Running Parent Sound Voice Rooms Saws Window Sound Of Music

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Grass [marijuana] probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.”

Way May Hands Kids Able Certain Easy Hurt Pieces Doors Materials Window Clever Grass Pot Performers Marijuana It Hurts Mediocre Hurt Me Windows And Doors

Author:George Carlin

“In cooking I found my mentor in this great chef, Albert Roux. I think this is a very important thing in life, to find someone who can steer you because to find it all by yourself is quite a difficult and slow process. That's not to say you won't ever get there, but to find a great coach, a great mentor, someone to show you the way and to open a few windows and doors, is a wonderful thing in life.”

“Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.”

Way Two Walks Window Mirrors One Way Swim Two Ways

Book:The Lords and The New Creatures

Source: The Lords and The New Creatures

“Even though it's important for all of us to change our light bulbs and the vehicles we drive, it's much more important to change our laws and policies. I drive a hybrid and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. But putting the burden on individuals to solve this global crisis is ultimately not going to be the most effective way to solve it.”

Way Important Light Law Individual Policy Changed Source Window Crisis Burden Solve Heat Vehicle Pumps Hybrid Bulbs Light Bulb Solar Panels Geothermal

Author:Al Gore

“One of my thrills of the business is to find young people, there's a window. I like young people who are in that brief window between on their-way-up and rehab. In that window I can make stars. It's not really true but it's not so far off.”

People Way I Can Young Stars Like You Window Rehab I Like You Really True

Author:Garry Marshall

“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.”

Thinking Way Years Kind Philosophy Home Used Evil Behinds Design Grew Normal Window Clean Strive Core Users Strife Microsoft Programmers Operating Systems Unix

Author:Linus Torvalds

“A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.”

Men Way Soul Facts Easy President Attitude Greater Window Tolerance Pope

Author:George H. W. Bush

“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.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Humans Use Values Hurt Secret Behinds Goes On Window Entertainment Convinced Detectives

Author:David Lynch

“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

“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”

Thinking Way Artist Pay Behinds Rich Five Rocks Band Window Selling Producers Managers Mates Splits Drummer Cds Rock Bands Platinum Drive Thru

Author:Steven Page

“Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt. Not this way, every evening talking to the trees, leaning out my window, imagining what I can't see.”

Way Want I Can Night Waiting Talking Boys Tree Wind Window Breaths Evening Necks Skirts

Book:The House on Mango Street

Source: The House on Mango Street

“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways". He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window". Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it's all on purpose.”

World Way Firsts Happens Purpose Left Causes Religious Chance Wonder Pure Window Logic Glasses Accidents Accepted Mysterious Mortals Phrases Satan Responding Infallible Mania Maniacs

Author:Stephen King

“The pay window will be: you can choose how and when you see, whether you see it on Comcast or Warner's Cable delivery system or Sky in the UK or you can buy it through Apple, or you might even buy it directly from the studio's site. Who knows? But that will be it. You'll go to the cinema and you'll find a way of digitally interacting with the piece; you'll either buy it or rent it or whatever.”

Knows Way Might Pay Pieces Sky Window Studios Cinema Apples Be You Site Cables Delivery Interacting

Author:Eric Fellner

“You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.”

Way Want Turns Scene Window Notion What You Want

Author:Shailene Woodley

“The idea of the Overton Window is that there`s a fairly narrow window of proposals in any particular policy area that people will take seriously that wouldn`t get you written off as a kook. The way to move or expand that window is to advocate super extreme positions which change the realm of what`s politically possible because after something super nuts has been . floated, thereafter, slightly less nuts positions will start to look acceptable and moderate by comparison.”

People Way Looks Has Beens Ideas Moving Written Policy Position Particular Areas Window Extremes Realms Comparison Nuts Acceptable Moderates Proposal

Author:Rachel Maddow

“If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in.”

Ifs Way Trying Doe Doors Window Climbing

Author:Behdad Sami

“He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways - also my head - and I had to turn this way and that. There were nudes that might have been of several different people - sitting - standing - even standing upon the radiator against the window - that was difficult - radiators don't intend you to stand on top of them. (On being photographed by Alfred Stieglitz)”

People Way Has Beens Different Hands Might Wanted Moving Turns Difficult Position Arms Sitting Standing Window Different Ways Might Have Been Different Peoples Pillow

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“You know what I never get with the limo? The tinted windows. Is that so people don't see you? Yeah, what a better way not to have people notice you than taking a thirty foot Cadillac with a TV antenna and a uniformed driver. How discreet. Nobody cares who's in the limo. You see a limo go by, you know it's either some rich jerk or fifty prom kids with $1.75 each.”

People Knows Way Care Kids Rich Feet Tvs Window Yeah Thirty Fifty Drivers Better Ways Jerk Prom Nobody Cares Discreet Cadillacs Antenna Limos

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“The only way to tell my Dad something is to write it on a note, and tie it to a brick, and throw it through a window. Of course, now Dad's armed with a brick.”

Way Writing Courses Dad Window Notes My Dad Ties Bricks

Author:Christopher Titus

“I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.”

Way Has Beens Heaven Wonderful Blessing Window Faithful Literal Tithe

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“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.”

“Safety was not a big thing when I was growing up. A seat belt was something that got in the way: 'Ma, the seat belt is digging into my back.' 'Stuff it down into the seat. And roll those windows up, you're letting the smoke out'”

Way Bigs Stuff Growing Up Growing Window Safety Smoke Seats Big Things Belts Digging Seat Belts

Author:Margaret Smith

“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.”

People Thinking Way Writing Looks Matter Memories Subjects Mines Window Wake Up Ice Sunset Waking Flirting Subject Matter Malls Deer

Author:Matthea Harvey

“Huge advances in clean energy technology are happening all the time. Solar and wind are booming. New ways to generate energy from our windows, the paint on our walls, and even our bike paths are being invented all the time. Technology is moving forward, but it needs to be moving forward faster.”

Way Needs Moving Energy Technology Path Wind Huge Wall Happenings Window Clean Paint Moving Forward Faster New Ways Bike Clean Energy

Author:Katharine Hayhoe

“When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.”

Way America Huge Window Faster Sunlight Vivid Beam

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“I've always been like nah, I'm going to have it my way, that way, when I look out that window at the end of the day, I can say I did it my way, whether it's on a higher level, or a level where I can just maintain, I can still say I did it my way.”

Way Looks Stills I Can Ends Levels Higher Window My Way The End Of The Day Higher Level

Author:Ginuwine

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