Window Pane Quotes

#1. Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

George Orwell

#2. Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Kahlil Gibran

#3. The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.

John Keats

#4. When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.

Alfred Austin

#5. But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.

Eminem

#6. Keep at least one window pane clean to check the weather. Once when I didn't do this I sent the kids off with umbrellas for six weeks straight.

Phyllis Diller

#7. What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

Jackie Kennedy

#8. The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#9. Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?

Wei Wu Wei

#10. When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.

Celia Thaxter

#11. Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

George Orwell

#12. Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

Jules Renard

#13. There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.

Dorothy Parker

#14. The moon is the lamp he paints by; His canvas the window pane; His brush is a frozen snowflake; Jack Frost the artist's name.

C.C. Long

#15. Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

Ken Scott

#16. She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on the window-pane.

John Lennon

#17. I walked up to the window, raised my palm and pressed it against the pane. It left a bloodied handprint. Through the red shape - my red flag, my riot sign - I could see Neil staring at me.

Shirley Marr

#18. The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.

Cassandra Clare

#19. There is a place born of silence
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a place where voices sing your beauty
A place where every breath
carves your image
in my soul.
[465, translated by Jonathan Star, - In the Arms of the Beloved]

Rumi

#20. The stars twinkled high above and reflected onto the cold window. I blew on the frosty glass and watched my breath fog up. I traced my initials across the cold glass, the condensation trickling down the pane.

Erica Sehyun Song

#21. THE AIR IN THE ROOM TASTES STERILE. THE LINGERING scent of bleach is mixing with the fresh white paint on the walls, and I wish my teacher would open the window to let in a breeze. But we're on the third floor so the pane is sealed shut - just in case anyone gets the urge to jump. I

Suzanne Young

#22. A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?

Richard Henry Stoddard

#23. 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

#24. All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

Steven Saylor

#25. When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

Michael Owen

#26. One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.

Daniil Kharms

#27. My mother gave up everything for me. In Yekaterinburg, she had a job and an apartment in the centre of the city and her whole life. And in Moscow - nothing.

Julia Lipnitskaya

#28. Even after she was gone, he passed her place each day:
something white in a high window - not a face,
but the white belly of a pigeon beating its wings
against the pane in the boarded-up house.

Zoe Brigley

#29. To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#30. There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it ... so I don't write a million songs.

Christine McVie

#31. I looked to the window. Patch was gone, but a single black feather was pressed to the outer pane, held in place by last night's rain. Or angel magic.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#32. It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downwards under the relentless drag of gravity. Remove a pane of really old glass from the window of a European cathedral and it will be noticeably thicker at the bottom than at the top.

Bill Bryson

#33. Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you.

Tommy Lasorda

#34. She sat at the window of the train, her head thrown back, one leg stretched across to the empty seat before her. The window frame trembled with the speed of the motion, the pane hung over empty darkness, and dots of light slashed across the glass as luminous streaks, once in a while.

Ayn Rand