“I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.” WantCultureHouseWishMy OwnLandWallWindowFamiliarShakesPermitOther Cultures Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“I removed the window [tattoo] because, while I used to spend all my time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, I now live there all the time.” UsedWishWindowMy TimeTattoo Author:Angelina Jolie
“I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.” IfsShowsWishRoomsTvsWindowParisHotelTowersTv ShowsEgyptGarbageMonumentPyramidsAlleysHotel RoomsEiffel TowerEiffelDumpstersBack Alleys Author:Gilbert Gottfried
“If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.” IfsWritingFirstsHeartWishWindowAustraliaAutobiographyAustralianUnderstand Me Author:Nellie Melba
“I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!” LittlesLongRememberNightHouseWishBornSunWindowBreathsPeeping Author:Honorius Augustodunensis
“In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.” WorldTryingMindSelfFactsLightWishPartyBoysBearsTenWindowOppositesPraiseSilentComplexesSelfishNervousWitnessScreamCosmicAfterlifeYearningPrivilegedElevenIntervalsTics Author:John Updike
“When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.” LooksArtHelpingWishObjectsWindowSellsStoresDevotional Author:W. H. Auden
“Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.” WorldLittlesWishAdviceJudgingFlowerGardenWindowPlantPatternsBoxesDo Not Judge Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg