Top 100 A Window Quotes
#1. Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer's reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.
Alec Soth
#2. She felt like she'd looked through a window and knew what happiness looked like. It was pure and unadulterated and just on the other side of a distant ridge through a murky window. And still she was closer to happiness than she'd ever been.
Sarah Noffke
#3. Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'
Alex Turner
#4. Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.
Antony Gormley
#5. Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.
Rick Riordan
#6. A window within the soul to see
Light and Magick I send with thee
Be strong, be brave, make the right choice
Though Darkness shouts with a terrible voice
Know that I am watching from above
And that always, always, the answer is love!
P.C. Cast
#7. Think of the Christmas present
of gashes you opened when, in an attempt
to be Superman, you slid in stocking feet
on a slippery wood floor and crashed
half way through a window. Hopes
of heroism dashed on the heels
of no clear sighting of Santa.
Kristen Henderson
#8. When the life left a person, it wasn't by degrees. It was instant, like someone pulling down a shade on a window. The
Jodi Picoult
#9. We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.
LeeAnn Taylor
#10. A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.
Tan Twan Eng
#11. It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.
Tom Frieden
#12. If you look around and see nothing but closed doors, then look again. It might be that you have to climb through a window.
Kent Allan Rees
#13. The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.
Gay Talese
#14. Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.
Tim Berners-Lee
#15. I worked at car washes - two or three different car washes. I worked at McDonald's and Wendy's, I worked as a dishwasher and as a telemarketer in two or three different places. I sold windows door-to-door and never once sold a window.
Joseph Bruce
#16. We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
#17. The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.
Herb Kelleher
#18. Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#19. I'm going to teach you the art of distinguishing between day and night. Always look at a window, and failing that look into the eyes of a man. If you see a face, any face, then you can be sure that night has succeeded day. For, believe me, night has a face." Then,
Elie Wiesel
#20. The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
John Cheever
#21. I sometimes say to people, I am a window frame - no more. The window frame is not that important. What is important is the light that comes through the window.
Eckhart Tolle
#23. Don't you know the eyes are the windows to the soul?" "Maybe I don't want anyone to have a window into mine.
Kami Garcia
#24. Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. As long as you have a window, life is exciting.
Gladys Taber
#26. I have a room dedicated to music and recording. I go there first thing in the morning and just before I go to bed. And it has a window to my street, so I can watch all the crazies walking by.
Brendon Urie
#27. Here at St. Anthony's, they have to close the curtains before it gets dark, since if a resident sees themself reflected in a window they'll think somebody's peeping in at them. It's called "sun-downing." When all the old folks get crazy at sunset.
Chuck Palahniuk
#28. Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.
Deepak Chopra
#29. Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.
Gabriel Orozco
#30. Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It's not; it's a deliberate construction.
William Zinsser
#31. 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.
Christopher Titus
#32. If Apollo caught sight of him outside or near a window during the light of day, Talon would be nothing more than a strip of fried bacon on the sidewalk. Extra-crispy Celt didn't appeal to him in the least.' (Talon)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. There were two important lessons I learned from Dad's 1964 campaign, though they didn't sink in until many years later: 1) Things always look darkest just before it goes completely black 2) Somewhere when God shuts a door, he shuts a window too. And then you're totally fucked.
Stephanie Miller
#34. When a window closes another one opens
Apl.de.ap
#35. The book should act as a window to the word.
Harry Duncan
#36. The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.
Michael Jackson
#37. I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.
Misty Upham
#38. [From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.
Dorothy Parker
#39. She'd kicked Klein's ass and still had enough moxie to tag him, and enough physical strength to get herself out of a window ten feet up on the wall.
He really should marry her.
Tara Janzen
#40. I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.
James Richardson
#41. He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#42. I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.
Charles Dance
#43. As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.
Andre Benjamin
#44. We're finally going to be free of the 2D monitor. It's been a window into virtual reality that we've all looked into for 30 or 40 years.
Brendan Iribe
#45. Losing love is like a window in your heart ...
Paul Simon
#46. From the clear center of my heart, there are no edges to my loving you. I've heard it said there's a window that opens from one mind to another, but if there were no wall, what need of installing a window?" - RUMI
Darren R. Weissman
#47. Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.
Mu Xin
#48. Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there
Rumi
#49. Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
Cecil Frank Powell
#50. Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.
Rumi
#51. All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
Ingrid Newkirk
#52. I think there are [gay players] right now, and if they're looking for a window to just come out, I mean, now is the window. My view on it is, yes, I am a Christian, but to each his own. You do what you want to do.
Robert Griffin III
#53. The gift art gives us is that instead of seeing only our own world, we see into other times, which offers a window into other cultures and sensibilities.
Susan Vreeland
#54. There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.
Max Beerbohm
#55. I'm just trying to get a window seat on the way to Hell.
Willam Belli
#56. For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of their room, a window seat, a strip of floor which they pace up and down.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#57. Pity Matt didn't help him through a window instead of over a sofa," she grumbled. "He needs an attitude adjustment.
Diana Palmer
#58. One of these people - a Canadian, of all things - stands at the picture's center, organizing the many smaller pictures into a coherent whole. His willingness to throw open a window on the American financial world, and to show people what it has become, still takes my breath away.
Michael Lewis
#59. I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay?
Nellie McKay
#60. My background is all comedy. I've been doing improv since I was 17. It's funny, because when I meet people, I'm known as this guy who will punch you in the face or throw you out a window, when I also have a background in comedy.
Derek Mears
#61. Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
Billy Wilder
#62. I point at a window to my left, and it explodes. Particles of glass rain over us. 'You'll have to do better than that,' I say.
Veronica Roth
#63. Was that what childhood was? Things rushing by out a window, the trees connected by motion, going too fast for him to notice the consequences?
Tom Franklin
#64. The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
Margaret Chan
#65. Read a certain way, the Natural History is preposterous, full of erroneous assumptions and cast-off mythology. Read another way, it is a window into Roman understanding two millennia ago. Read another way, it is a tribute to wonder itself
Anthony Doerr
#67. I looked at her, at first with the sort of gaze that is not merely the messenger of the eyes, but a window at which all the senses lean out, anxious and petrified, a gaze that would like to touch the body it is looking at, capture it, take it away and the soul along with it.
Marcel Proust
#68. The vision, determination, stamina, hope, relentlessness, and sheer work that are involved in staying afloat, much less succeeding, are the same whether you are running a window on 47th Street or Miramax Films or Microsoft.
Bob Weinstein
#69. You may think just a window
But you overtook my soul.
You are not just a whisper,
You are louder than my soul.
(from poem Chimera)
Deepa Bajaj
#70. He smiles. The smile is not sinister or predatory. It's merely a smile, a formal kind of smile, friendly but a little distant, as if I'm a kitten in a window. One he's looking at but doesn't intend to buy. I
Margaret Atwood
#71. Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#72. There's a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it's not going to be there forever. That's why staying humble is important; knowing who I am and the message I'm sending out. I always try to be a person first, before I'm No. 55 on the football field.
Junior Seau
#73. I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.
El Anatsui
#74. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No furniture, no light fittings, no carpet, no bodies. Not a single body. Nothing but the million ducks, the three million ducklings and a window.
Nicky Singer
#75. Most words for ghost are pieces of mica that carefully layered
will make a window out of fire. It's cold and the faces at the window
do what faces usually do they open onto a genetic history
that looks up suddenly and it's the eyes everyone says you can't say that's not alive
Cole Swensen
#76. For her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.
Gustave Flaubert
#77. Man was matter. Drop him out of 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.
Joseph Heller
#79. For 82 minutes, 'The Little Mermaid' reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment. Live-action filmmakers, see this and try to top it. Go on and try.
Richard Corliss
#80. I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.
Burton Silverman
#81. Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Charlaine Harris
#82. I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.
Lucinda Williams
#83. At dawn, a ray of sunlight slanted from the steeple of St. Antoine's church, glanced off a window on Grant Street and finally alighted on a beer can lying in the middle of the pavement.
Yves Beauchemin
#84. If kittens do not receive visual input between thirty and eighty days after birth (a window of time now known as the critical period), it is too late: the unused eye is blind forever.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#85. When one door closes, find another."
Kylie gazed back up. "And what if there isn't another door?"
"Then you try the window."
"And if there's not a window?" Kylie asked.
"Then you find a sledgehammer and make a window.
C.C. Hunter
#86. From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#87. Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?
Wei Wu Wei
#88. Losing someone is like when the sun comes through a window, moving across the room with each hour, until night falls and all you can do is try to remember the soothing shapes it made.
Stewart Lewis
#89. Of course, no rocks in Los Angeles. You had to buy fucking rocks. Sick place, this, where you couldn't find a rock to break a window.
C.D. Reiss
#90. I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.
Mario Cuomo
#91. Books serve us simply by opening a window on all we wanted to say and feel and think about. We may not even notice that they have not said it themselves till we go back to them years later and do not find what we loved in them. You cannot keep the view by taking the window with you.
James Richardson
#92. To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.
N. T. Wright
#93. Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.
Margaret George
#94. When life closes a door, God opens a window.
Paul Smith
#95. I'm an organism of the earth, a Taurus. I was never born of air, of water, or of fire. I'm a creature of gravity and I could feel the ground whisper. The same thing happens to me in old hotels when I'm staying on the twenty-second floor. I open a window and want to fling myself out.
Sue Grafton
#96. In my life are many windows
and many graves.
Sometimes they exchange
roles:
then a window is closed forever,
then by way of a gravestone
I can see
very far.
(Hebrew-to-English translation by Rabbi Steven Sager)
Yehuda Amichai
#97. Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.
Hu Jintao
#98. Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.
Benicio Del Toro
#99. Let my words
be as clear as glass,
a window to my soul.
Sarah Wagstaff
#100. 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.
Nellie Melba
