Casement Window Quotes

#1. I turn my head and stare out the casement window at the royal gardens instead, wet and slippery and dark as the center of a body, where the roses twitch an extinguished red.

Alexandra Kleeman

#2. It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.

Michael Keaton

#3. Clement Attlee, who looked like a sadistic sanitary inspector...

Tony Benn

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

Epes Sargent

#5. The worse one sins, the more of a moralist one becomes.

Caleb Crain

#6. In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.

Lawrence Eagleburger

#7. Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?"

Lewis Grizzard

#8. The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

Samuel Richardson

#9. In ancient Greece, the word for "cook," "butcher," and "priest" was the same - mageiros - and the word shares an etymological root with "magic.

Michael Pollan

#10. As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

John Green

#11. Some small ones learn to stitch together a Coat of Scowls or a Scarf of Jokes to hide their Hearts. Some hammer up a Fort of Books to protect theirs.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. Aye, I believe ye, Sassenach. But it would ha' been a good deal easier if you'd only been a witch.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Missy Elliott

#14. Rudolf Clausius coined the word in 1865, in the course of creating a science of thermodynamics. He needed to name a certain quantity that he had discovered - a quantity related to energy, but not energy.

James Gleick