Quotes For Venetian Blinds

#1. ... he closed the venetian blinds and then the drapes, and he lay down on the outside of the coverlet. But sleep would not come. Tears came instead. They seeped. Billy turned on the Magic Fingers, and he was jiggled as he wept.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering through the closed venetian blinds on a hot afternoon, makes the whole magnificence of summer blaze in my mind; whereas if I face its direct harsh glare it blinds me.

Simone De Beauvoir

#3. I roll onto my side and stare out the venetian blinds at the blue sky beyond. After a few minutes I'm lulled into a sort of peace. The sky, the sky
same as it always was.

Sara Gruen

#4. He had a face right out of film noir, a face meant to be shot in black and white, parallel shadows of venetian blinds slashing across it, a plume of cigarette smoke spiraling beside it.

Khaled Hosseini

#5. Then the sunlight burst into the room through the venetian blinds; I breathed hard, filling my lungs with air. I could see my feet, my arms; there I was. I tried hard to get back in my body again ... it was such a long way to my feet.

Sylvia Plath

#6. Energy in itself is a sort of redemption. No wonder we admire Satan. But if the Devil were listless, if he were a pale man in his underwear who watched television by day behind closed venetian blinds - oh if that were the devil I would fear him.

Edmund White

#7. Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

William Dean Howells

#8. This, for eternity. He closed his eyes and wished. Her eyelashes on his cheek, her thighs on his waist, the first consummation of this terrifying thing they'd done. Marriage meant forever.

Lauren Groff

#9. We're trapped in linguistic constructs ... all that is is metaphor.

Robert Anton Wilson

#10. Trust in God allows us to live with active expectation, not cynicism.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#11. Enjoyment belongs to those who know things halfway.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. It seems her kiss
sprinkle the magic
diamond dust
on my fear
and
my panic.

Brian Conaghan

#13. Knowledge is justice

Charlie Jane Anders

#14. Patrick Kavanagh put it, preparing for life rather than living it.

John O'Donohue

#15. The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.

Marcus Borg

#16. Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

Sharon Gless