Dirty Windows Quotes

#1. Beauty! Sid Morris said, addressing the dirty windows that looked out to the alley where, on certain Thursdays, the smell up from the Chinese restaurant across the street reached a point you could almost taste. Beauty! he said.

Kate Walbert

#2. The sun flitered in through the small, dirty windows, catches his eyes. They are brown, ordinary, but the way he looks at me - no one has ever looked at me like he does. He looks at me like he sees something. Someone.
Me.
"All right," he says, and puts his hands behind his head.
"Go ahead.

Elizabeth Scott

#3. Broken hearts and dirty windows
Make life difficult to see
That's why last night and this morning
Always look the same to me

John Prine

#4. Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'

Rachel Nichols

#5. The fight in theatre is focus, focus, focus.

Judy Gold

#6. I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

Samuel Adams

#7. Converts have it soft," said Mary. "They come to it late, without ever having had the Devil under the bed. They sail in and admire the stained-glass windows. All the dirty work has been done.

Mavis Gallant

#8. Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.

Paul Russell

#9. Buddy, I don't mean to poke my nose in where it don't belong, but that there is a dame to kill for. Why'd you let her go?

Frank Miller

#10. If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled 'How to Build a Chair' instead of a cookbook, you pie will probably end up tasting like wood and nails instead of like crust and fruity filling.

Lemony Snicket

#11. It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#12. On the one hand there is myself, and on the other the rest of the universe. I am not rooted in the earth like a tree. I rattle around independently. I seem to be the center of everything, and yet cut off and alone.

Alan W. Watts

#13. For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

Barack Obama

#14. Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

Peter Thiel

#15. Go ahead. Enjoy the hills and valleys, days and nights, and all the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Be content with your lot; once cannot be first in everything.

Aesop

#17. If the windows of your spirit are dirty, and streaked, covered with matter foreign to them, then the world as you look out of them will be dirty and streaked and out of order. ... Go wash your windows.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#18. Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. Our minds are a lot like the sea ... you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

Jaimal Yogis

#20. Oh, if there were only a true religion. Fool that I am, I see a Gothic cathedral and venerable stained-glass windows, and my weak heart conjures up the priest to fit the scene. My soul would understand him, my soul has need of him. I only find a nincompoop with dirty hair.

Stendhal