Quotes About Shop Windows

#1. You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. These errand-boys and furtive and fugitive girls who, ignoring their doom, look in at shop windows? But I am aware of our ephemeral passage.

Virginia Woolf

#4. On the avenue, dark and tree-lined, shop windows began to blink on.

Juan Filloy

#5. Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#6. She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

Sylvia Plath

#7. Is he about to become that man, that modern fool of a certain age, who finds himself pausing by shop windows to stare in at the saxophones or the motorbikes, or driven to find himself a mistress of his daughter's age?

Ian McEwan

#8. My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion of my body looking back at me everywhere.

Bethany Pierce

#9. When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

Tristan Bernard

#10. Group of Steiners and Liesel walked past some shop windows and the imposing town hall, which in later years would be chopped off at the knees and buried.

Markus Zusak

#11. Your eyes, brilliant as shop windows Or as blazing lamp-stands at public festivals, Insolently use a borrowed power Without ever knowing the law of their beauty. Blind,

Charles Baudelaire

#12. I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that state of perpetual youth reserved for mannequins in shop windows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#13. They shared an image of the American Christmas
riches, reconciliations, tears, snow, success, sentiment, furs and firs, the shop windows shining like Heaven and everything good for sale.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#14. Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

Erich Fromm

#15. I don't really hang out with people. I like to be by myself. In fact, I've been arrested a few times because I like to walk around at two or three in the morning, looking at shop windows. The cops take me to the station and fingerprint me. But I wouldn't call that hanging out.

Emo Philips

#16. Your mission in life is to determine what you believe
not to accept what someone else tells you to believe.

Peggy Toney Horton

#17. People say we shouldn't be together were to young to know about forever -Zayn Malik

Zayn Malik

#18. I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

Emmitt Smith

#19. The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85.

Robert C. Solomon

#20. I'm afraid of time ... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

Ann Brashares

#21. Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.
Right and wrong, however, are for - well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.

Hanya Yanagihara

#22. Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned
in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

Virginia Woolf

#23. I can remember walking on the moon.

Alan Bean

#24. It makes me happy that people recognise me and want to click pictures with me. But sometimes, I want to be a common person. I want to go to a coffee shop and just chill. I miss driving my car with the windows rolled down.

Sonam Kapoor

#25. Candy loved to shop and she couldn't seem to shop smiling. They'd gone out the front door of The Cookie Jar and into the next building over. There were party dresses on the mannequins in the windows, and Hannah has said they were going to buy something for her to wear to the party tomorrow night.

Joanne Fluke

#26. How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

William Morris Hunt

#27. Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.

Steven Pressfield

#28. To repudiate the election of God is to repudiate the God of election.

Arthur W. Pink

#29. When you become love you become divine because love is divine.

Bryant McGill

#30. be a maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon.

Gary Keller

#31. I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

John Shirley

#32. We were the only customers downstairs in the shop and there were no windows and only two dim bulbs, without shades. There was a pleasant soporific smell, as though the books had stolen most of the air.

Ian McEwan

#33. How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

Jack Kevorkian