Window Open Quotes

#1. You cannot force the Now. - But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

Bruce Lee

#2. Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.

Rumi

#3. May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#4. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. The secret o' health, happiness and success is deep breathing, buttermilk instead o' beer, your bedroom window open, a penny a week and a mind weel disciplined.

Neil Munro

#6. Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.

Elizabeth Hurley

#7. ***A SMALL SUGGESTION***
Or maybe there was a woman on Grande Strasse who now kept her library window open for another reason - but that's just be being cynical, or hopeful. Or both.

Markus Zusak

#8. Shall I leave the window open or would you like to try the door? she said with a sniff.

Douglas Adams

#9. I woke to find every window open I woke to find the heavy door ajar And I walked outside and stood upon the hilltop And gazed once more on a bright morning star I walked outside and every bird was singing As I found again my bright morning star

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#10. Beyond the lake the waning moon has slowed,
And stands there like a window open wide
Into a hushed and brightly lit abode
Where something dreadful has occurred inside.

Anna Akhmatova

#11. We are talking 1982 here, a time when Brazil was not known for its safety. That very day, as I left Rio, a radio report came on about a woman whose glittering bejeweled hand had been macheted off as she drove through town with the window open.

Lonely Planet

#12. You may never have heard of Joseph Overton and his proverbial window but you most certainly have heard the Republican presidential campaign in 2015 year not just flinging the window open but shattering all its glass.

Rachel Maddow

#13. We are not going to keep the window open forever.

Barack Obama

#14. I left the window open, she says.
And just like that, the world pulls back into focus. I stop spinning and something in me cracks - not something literal like bones, thank god, but something just as deep - and I'm so ready for this damn night to end, but I don't want it to end here.

Victoria Schwab

#15. You're like everyone else, Strike; you want your civil liberties when you've told the missus you're at the office and you're at a lap-dancing club, but you want twenty-four-hour surveillance on your house when someone's trying to force your bathroom window open. Can't have it both ways.

Robert Galbraith

#16. I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you.

Cathy Rigby

#17. A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

Isabel Allende

#18. I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak.

Neil Gaiman

#19. The demons you need to get rid of are inside. But they seem out there because you left the window open.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#20. In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

Bela Lugosi

#21. What's proper workplace etiquette for picking up computer and tossing out window? Open window first or break glass?

Abigail Roux

#22. You cannot find love or demand love. You can only give it away and keep your window open so that love can come in.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open was now unnecessary. ... It was as if a part of us that was air and breeze had been denied entry.

Amit Chaudhuri

#24. [ ... ] a sigh fit for the pillow, the sinking firelight, and a bedroom window open to the stars and the whisper of bare trees.

Evelyn Waugh

#25. Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time ...

J.M. Barrie

#26. Corrode, v.
I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open and it started to rust.

David Levithan

#27. Please leave the window open.

Jim Varney

#28. Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#29. Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

Roger Ebert

#30. She has a fixation on love. Strong trouble. The girl left her window open one clear night and it crawled into her body while she was asleep. There's no spell can cure it.

Isabel Allende

#31. At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,
You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.
And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,
And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

Rudyard Kipling

#32. God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

Adoniram Judson

#33. Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Herbert Hoover

#34. Out the window in the distance, contradicting the prairie, a mirage of downtown Chicago ascended to a kind of lurid acropolis, its light as if from nightly immolation warped to the red end of the spectrum, smoldering as if always just about to explode into open flames.

Thomas Pynchon

#35. Open your window with joy and allow all of the love come in to touch your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Electric Networks spread fear of murder on the streets

Allen Ginsberg

#37. My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.

Jodi Picoult

#38. She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.
My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire - no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.

Beth Revis

#39. Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.

Ani DiFranco

#40. She watches him for hours. She wants to be the sheets that cover his toes. She wants to be the ceiling separating him from the sky: above him, the first thing he sees before and after dreams. She wants to be the open window letting in the light for him.

Natalia Jaster

#41. You die." Thad's voice was heavy; the fire was gone. "It's like everyone has a personal window of time that the gateway to Nil stays open for them. It's always one year. Exactly three hundred sixty-five days. If you miss that window, you're done.

Lynne Matson

#42. To love is to open the window of our heart for all the beauty of the world to come in and dance with joy within our soul.

Debasish Mridha

#43. There is no window to look outside.
There is no window to look within.
Open the doors.

Sanhita Baruah

#44. If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.

Dan Abnett

#45. We ask only to be reassured
About the noises in the cellar
And the window that should not have been open

T. S. Eliot

#46. There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#47. Like a window had been thrown open inside my head and my heart, where there had been closed shutters before.

Malorie Blackman

#48. Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

Rumi

#49. Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy
and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

Shashi Tharoor

#50. He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.

Neil Gaiman

#51. He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Charles Baudelaire

#52. Find the Key ! Find the Key ! If you want to open the Doors of Heaven ! Without which, you can at best, look from outside, like the pauper looking in through the window at your food when hungry. Find the Key !

AainaA-Ridtz

#53. I couldn't think how long it had been since I had read a novel. And in the daytime! Feeling pleasantly wicked, I sat by the open window in my surgery and resolutely entered a world far from my own.

Diana Gabaldon

#54. I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.

Dwayne Johnson

#55. The breeze through the open window scented the interior of the car with leaves and water, growing things and secret things.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhere
Making love while we let the midnight air
Flow through the open window, into our closed hearts
Left bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart

Jessica-Lynn Barbour

#57. Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.

Laozi

#58. Kaitlyn never wore open-toed shoes on account of how she hated her feet because she felt her second toes were too long, as if the second toe was a window into the soul or something.

John Green

#59. At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window.

Rumi

#60. When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause.

Chogyam Trungpa

#61. I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her.

Marc Chagall

#62. Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it.

Marie Howe

#63. And as she was crossing to the day-nursery he added thoughtlessly, 'And shut that window. I feel a draught.'
'O George, never ask me to do that. The window must always be left open for them, always, always.

J.M. Barrie

#64. The window of opportunity to plan and prepare for the end of his life had closed gradually. Any cracks left open to talk candidly were tenuous and fleeting.

Lisa J. Shultz

#65. To love is to open the window of your heart for all of the beauty of the world to come in and dance with the joy in your soul.

Debasish Mridha

#66. When they were all ready, Halpern again counted them in, and the lyrical clarinet line floated over the strings and, Max felt, out of the open window and on, out and out over the hot, dusty July city like summer rain.

Lucy Beckett

#67. Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.

Henry James

#68. The best I can manage is to pretend that I don't notice him - which is like saying I have never once noticed the sky, or the itchy feel of grass against my legs, or the pelt of wind through an open car window. He's something you just have to notice - there's no overlooking about it

Holly Schindler

#69. And he is enchanted by the beauty of small things: hot coffee, wind through an open window, the tapping of rain, a passing bicycle, the desolation of snow on a winter's day.

Simon Van Booy

#70. Through the open window, Ronan asked evenly, You gonna race with those shades on, you Bulgarian mobster Jersey trash piece of shit?

Maggie Stiefvater

#71. They stood by the open window of their hotel room with the rain sweeping into their faces. A bolt of lightning lit up the Grand Canal. Struck it out of the darkness in a searing eloquent flash. The expectation was that the night to come would be no less bracing, no less eloquent.

Glenn Haybittle

#72. It was said that the view through the open window above the urinal, straight across the Bay to the Silver Span, was the finest obtainable from such a position anywhere in the world, but today Philip kept his eyes down. Foreshortened, yes, definitely.

David Lodge

#73. This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness ...

Ted Kooser

#74. air and the rain. Approaching the side of the car, I bend over and knock on the window on the driver's side. He has a pair of binoculars in his hand. As he presses the button to open the window, he tries to hide it out of sight but he's not quick enough. 'Sorry,' I say. 'Do you need any help?

Carla Vermaat

#75. Between a cold kitchen window gone opaque with the stove's wet heat and the breath of us, an open drawer, and the gilt ferrotype of identical boys flanking a blind vested father which hung in a square recession above the wireless's stand, my Mum stood and cut off my long hair in the uneven heat.

David Foster Wallace

#76. You are the window I open when it's hard to breathe.

Minhal Mehdi

#77. Primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

Huston Smith

#78. I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window. ... Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

Vladimir Nabokov

#79. I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.

Steve Ballmer

#80. Never hesitate to open new windows in your life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#81. It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in.

Simon Armitage

#82. Life has dazzling beauty. To see it, open the window of the mind and remove the curtain of conformity.

Debasish Mridha

#83. Peace can't be seen with eyes, only the mind can see it and the heart can feel it. So open the window of your mind to let it come in.

Debasish Mridha

#84. Be informed here and now that incessant prayers does not finger God to open the Windows of heaven. What God wants to see Is your passion towards success and your giving drive ... nothing else!

Michael Bassey Johnson

#85. Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.

Max Lucado

#86. The window was still open," Mr Lisbon said. "I don't think we'd ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close that window or else she'd go on jumping out of it forever.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#87. She threw open the window to breathe in the spring air, heavy with the sweet perfume of roses and heather. To her right was the rolling glen beckoning her to come and walk. 'Sit here awhile and dream your thoughts on this flat rock.' How often had she done that?

Karen Ranney

#88. He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the desk in front of her [ ... ] Let us open the window and see if your painting can entice the butterflies.

Sarah Hall

#89. A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

J.M. Barrie

#90. The evening breeze floated through the open window over my desk, waltzing the curtain from side to side.

Ruta Sepetys

#91. I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

Christopher Isherwood

#92. Listen, open the heart's window
and keep looking at the Beloved.
The task of love is to open that window
so the heart can be illuminated by His Beauty.
Gaze incessantly at the Beloved's face.
That is your power, my friend

Rumi

#93. Now, smile-if you still can.
This is your zygomatic major muscle. Each contraction pulls your flesh apart the way tiebacks hold open the drapes in your living room window. The way cables pull aside a theater curtain, your every smile is an opening night. A premiere. You unveiling yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk

#94. She leans over our table and turns the sign in the window so that it says CLOSED on the outside. But on our side, perfectly positioned between Mabel's place and mine, it says OPEN. If this were a short story, it would mean something.

Nina LaCour

#95. May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Franz Kafka

#96. There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

Kathe Kollwitz

#97. If you ever feel the need of my love, just open the window. My heart will always be there.

Debasish Mridha

#98. I wish for my child to have a mind as stark and wild as the winter, a spirit as clear and fine as my window, and a heart as red and open as my wounded hand.

Catherynne M Valente

#99. concept: as i sleep, a star falls out of the sky. it makes its way down to me. it slips through my open window, floats into my chest and spreads its light throughout my body. it heals me

L.J. Buchanan

#100. Why do you like books so much?" he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. "You never know what you'll learn when you open one. And if it's a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.

Wendy Mass