Dormer Window Quotes

#1. The sky is the color of gray flannel, the darkness broken only by the dormer window of another early riser. The woman who lives in that attic painted her walls yellow, and the reflected light bounces out like a spring crocus. If light were sound, her window would be playing a concerto.

Eloisa James

#2. Her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

Gustave Flaubert

#3. I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

Ernst Toller

#4. I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people ... twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#5. That's the way girls were
they always laughed. Because they were bitches.

Robert Bloch

#6. Books are keys to wisdom's treasure;
Books are gates to lands of pleasure;
Books are paths that upward lead;
Books are friends. Come, let us read.

Emilie Poulsson

#7. Your success will be determined by the quality of your relationships with people.

Danielle LaPorte

#8. I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.

Josh Hartnett

#9. The greater the number of prescriptions, the more people's sense of personal responsibility dwindles.

Hans Monderman

#10. Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.

Jay Leno

#11. God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.

Fulton J. Sheen

#12. Are you going to lock your shitbox?"
Adam said, "No point. Hooligans got in anyway."
The hooligan in question smiled thinly.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.

Dan Wieden

#14. The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

Ben Bernanke

#15. I talked to her just like I talk to a laboring woman. Mothers need to hear them soothing words. They just as important as the medicines, sometimes even more.

Hillary Jordan

#16. I offered you a choice, and you took it."
I shot him what I hoped was a truly scathing glare. "Some choice. I was dying. Some drunk shot me from a pickup. Why wouldn't I have just woken up with gonorrhea like every other girl of loose moral fiber?

Molly Harper