Top 100 Sill Quotes
#1. You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill.
Lenny Bruce
#2. What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.
Ray Bradbury
#3. The innocent seriousness with which she told her story and I'd listened to so often and myself told
wide eyed hugging in heaven together
hipsters of America in the 1950's sitting in a dim room
the clash of the streets beyond the window's bare soft sill.
Jack Kerouac
#4. She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there. It shows in the way she places a seashell on a window sill, a red-painted chair in the corner: she is practiced in the art of creating a still life and taking up residence inside it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#5. She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill
John Hartford
#6. Sill. Their horses and weapons were confiscated, and they were imprisoned. In a field just
N. Scott Momaday
#7. The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world.
William Golding
#8. If, my dear, you seek to slumber;
Count of stars an endless number;
If you will continue wakeful;
Count the drops that make a lakeful;
Then if vigilance yet above you
Hover, Count the times I love you;
And if slumber sill repel you
Count the times I do not tell you.
Franklin P. Adams
#9. Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill.
The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face
Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.
Allen Tate
#10. Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything.
Girdhar Joshi
#11. A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
Robert Louis Stevenson
#12. Her brain might know this was a new day and a new time, but her heart had no idea. It sill loved.
K.L. Burrell
#13. I smiled at these books every time I saw them on my shelves. In many ways I sill feel like an incomplete person, but at least I had those books; I was more complete than anyone unlucky enough not to have them.
Josh Hanagarne
#14. Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.
Banana Yoshimoto
#15. The accused were to be tried under a three-hundred-year-old Act. The Treason Act of 1351 had come into being during the reign of Edward III, its purpose to define and limit the number of offences classed as treason. It sill exists today. The
Don Jordan
#16. Goodbye, goodbye, may Bog forgive you for a ruined life. Then I got on to the sill, the music blasting away to my left, and I shut my glazzies and felt the cold wind on my listo, then I jumped.
Anthony Burgess
#17. No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces.
Greg Peterson
#18. Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C.
And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity.
Who's gonna love you when you're looks are gone?
God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
Paul Simon
#19. Then the short man disappears through the huge doors. Minutes later, the aide-de-camp flings open the shutters of an upstairs window and gazes a moment across the rooftops before unfurling a crimson flag over the brick and securing its eyelets to the sill.
Anthony Doerr
#20. I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.
Carrie Fisher
#21. As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.
Chuck Palahniuk
#22. The light died on the window-sill as the last survivor of a charge dies on the enemy parapet, murdered but glorious.
Josephine Tey
#23. Jane clutched her mug like a talisman of reality; then suddenly jumped so hard that she spilt half the cocoa on the window-sill.
Susan Cooper
#24. In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.
James Wright
#25. A few insect skeletons lay scattered on the narrow sill, shiny and precise and sad as broken jewelry.
Ed Park
#26. Life is a cat asleep on the window sill suddenly waking as it falls from the third floor.
Tiziano Scarpa
#27. Jenks made a face as he levered himself up on the sill. Much as I enjoy this horrific outpouring of estrogen, I'm going to go say good-bye to my wife. Let me know when you're ready. I'll be in the garden - probably next to the stink weed.
Kim Harrison
#28. Next day on returning I found him dead in the snow with his head on the sill of the door - the door of his puppyhood's days; my dog to the last in his heart of hearts - it was my help he sought, and vainly sought, in the hour of his bitter extremity.
Ernest Thompson Seton
#29. By seven o'clock even the long corridor was as dim as the alley outside. No one thought of shutting the windows - I doubt whether they will shut...and the fog rolled over the sill in banks and round the open glass doors, till even the white cap of a Sister could hardly be seen as she passed.
Enid Bagnold
#30. Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard !
Camille Paglia
#31. Student food." His eyes went to the tomato on the sill. "Whatever's in the refrigerator over pasta.
Kim Harrison
#32. I'm trying to see Olly in his darkened room when the Bundt leaps from the sill and plunges to the ground.
I gasp. Did the cake just commit suicide?
Nicola Yoon
#33. Turned away from the sooty sill and the dark city-
turned away forever
from the factories, the personal strivings,
to a life of the imagination.
Mary Oliver
#34. I will make you insane, her memory screamed at her near the winter window sill as Tatiana smelled the brine of eternity. On the outside you will walk and smile as if indeed you are a normal woman, but on the inside you will twist and burn on the stake, I will never free you, you will never be free.
Paullina Simons
#35. I am not the lonely human, plunked down on earth to aimlessly wander. I am a part of that earth and not going anywhere- just like the spider up in the corner, the dust on the sill, and the cat I buried in the backyard. -Jamaica Ritcher.
Jay Allison
#36. She woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.
Zora Neale Hurston
#37. In the pure, strong hours of the morning, when the soul of the day is at its best, lean upon the window sill of God and look into his face, and get the orders for the day. Then go out into the day with the sense of a hand upon your shoulder and not a chip.
E. Stanley Jones
#38. She remembered perching on the sill of her bedroom window with the pane opened a crack so she could let the winter in, and she remembered letting it sting her nose and wash over her until she was shivering and blue.
Meagan Spooner
#39. Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
Theodore Roethke
#40. These days, though, he was as unpredictable as an alley cat. One minute, he's purring on
your lap. The next, he's scowling at you from the window sill, and you're left wondering if he's plotting your demise over there, just waiting for you to fall asleep. That's Will.
Laura Miller
#41. To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.
Hippolyte Taine
#43. We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.
Sterling W. Sill
#45. God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and commanded us to be men.
Sterling W. Sill
#46. I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
Edward Rowland Sill
#47. The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.
Sterling W. Sill
#48. You can't judge a man by watching him live ... I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived.
Sterling W. Sill
#50. It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.
Sterling W. Sill
#51. Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.
Sterling W. Sill
#52. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes.
Sterling W. Sill
#53. If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.
Sterling W. Sill
#54. Man is a thinking being; what and how we think largely determines what we are and what we will become.
Sterling W. Sill
#55. That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon it, as indeed it does.
Sterling W. Sill
#56. The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.
Sterling W. Sill
#58. Difficulty is one of the prices that we pay for our blessings.
Sterling W. Sill
#59. Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.
Sterling W. Sill
#60. Next to the human spirit the human body is the most marvelous of God's creations.
Sterling W. Sill
#61. Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude.
Sterling W. Sill
#62. When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.
Sterling W. Sill
#63. We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.
Sterling W. Sill
#65. One of the greatest abilities is to be able to take criticism
Sterling W. Sill
#66. There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care.
Sterling W. Sill
#67. Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called "mountaintop employments of great value," we spend our time in digging a pit and then falling therein, so that our temporary joy may become a permanent and bitter loss.
Sterling W. Sill
#68. Earth bears no balsams for mistakes;
Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool
That did his will: but thou, O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool.
Edward Rowland Sill
#69. Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.
Sterling W. Sill
#70. We are all human magnets. Our deeds, attitudes and thoughts attract in kind. Gets back with interest exactly what he sends.
Sterling W. Sill
#72. Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.
Sterling W. Sill
#73. A story is told that Whistler once painted a tiny picture of a spray of roses. The artistry involved in the picture was magnificent. Never before, it seemed, had the art of man been able to execute quite so deftly a reproduction of the art of nature.
Sterling W. Sill
#75. Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.
Sterling W. Sill
#76. One of the greatest possible sins would be to return to God the life which he has given us with our abilities undiscovered and our talents undeveloped an unutilized. One of Jesus most bitter rebukes was given to him who buried his talents in the ground.
Sterling W. Sill
#77. There is a blueprint for every accomplishment-all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the truth has once been established.
Sterling W. Sill
#78. Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.
Sterling W. Sill
#79. If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.
Sterling W. Sill
#80. You should always have 2 books ... the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
Sterling W. Sill
#81. One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?
Sterling W. Sill
#82. It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.
Sterling W. Sill
#83. At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!
Edward Rowland Sill
#84. Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."
Sterling W. Sill
#86. How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!
Sterling W. Sill
#87. Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.
Sterling W. Sill
#88. Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination ...
Sterling W. Sill
#90. The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.
Sterling W. Sill
#91. Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.
Sterling W. Sill
#92. We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them
Sterling W. Sill
#93. When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become and oak tree or a pumpkin.
Sterling W. Sill
#95. One of the most productive things that we ever do in our lives is to think. To be able to think is to be able to decide, to judge, to have opinions and convictions, and to entertain a point of view. To be able to think is to be able to love, to believe, to work, to originate, and to organize.
Sterling W. Sill
#96. One who works twice as hard will have four times as much accomplishment. If he works 3 times as hard he will have 9 times as much accomplishment and 9 times more fun in the process.
Sterling W. Sill
#97. Wealth is not only what you have but it is also what you are.
Sterling W. Sill
#98. People would rather be praised than criticized but the later may help us make more progress.
Sterling W. Sill
#100. No temptation is a temptation, unless we are entertaining it.
Sterling W. Sill
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