Windowless Quotes

#1. If you prefer, I can acquire a windowless creeper van, and we can huddle in it and eat greasy take out.

Ilona Andrews

#2. Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day
the light of day, faint in her windowless room.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. As the old saying went: "Not all windowless vans have residential surveillance equipment.

Joseph Fink

#4. It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices.

Helen Phillips

#5. I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#6. In the windowless tomb of a blind mother, in the dead of the night, under feeble rays of a lamp in an alabaster globe, a girl came into the darkness with a wail.

George MacDonald

#7. When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.

Robert Genn

#8. I remember as a child hearing of the horrors of life in the Soviet Union. There was supposedly only one kind of store, a gigantic windowless dispensary staffed by listless, surly functionaries selling cheaply made, generic goods. It sounds a lot like Wal-Mart.

Charles Eisenstein

#9. Vayl, this is not a pleasant moment for me," I confessed.
"No?"
"Locked in a windowless, doorless room with a dancing, headless corpse and a secret sucker that can move fast enought to tear us both a new one if I miss?

Jennifer Rardin

#10. Avoid working in windowless environments for good health.

Steven Magee

#11. I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.

Brigitte Nielsen

#12. The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

Jimmy Breslin

#13. The dungeons are windowless. One hour is much like another down there, and for me, all hours are midnight.

George R R Martin

#14. Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room.

Lisa Kleypas

#15. Life is a windowless room in the Hotel Bellevue.

Victoria Wood

#16. Back in the early 1960s, when I was eight or nine. Some neighborhood boys and I saw a disc-shaped, windowless object that hovered, silent, then simply vanished. My parents said, "That's very nice" and ignored it, but I knew what I'd seen, and it was life-changing.

Steven M. Greer

#17. Yes, it is better to look from the window than not to look at all, but to look through the window cannot be compared to the windowless sky.

Rajneesh

#18. All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

Robert Grudin

#19. The windowless room where the po'ouli cells are kept alive - sort of - is called the Frozen Zoo.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#20. I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.

Leo Kottke

#21. A tall, dark-haired boy ... stared after me curiously. He gave me a slow smile before turning his attention back to Miller. That smile sent chills racing down my arms, leaving gooseflesh in their wake, but not in a good way. It was less Mr. Sexypants and more Mr. Windowless Van.

Cara Lynn Shultz

#22. I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

David Remnick

#23. The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

Richard Saul Wurman

#24. Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.

Jude Morgan

#25. Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

Charles Kingsley

#26. There is no light. I don't feel like starting my generator. I used to get a big kick out saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway.Dr. Stubbs Catch -22

Joseph Heller

#27. You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

Bruce McCulloch

#28. Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#29. That little school in the crook of the baseball glove that is Wisconsin. He'd

Chad Harbach

#30. Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.

Nancy Pearcey

#31. Keeping a consistent band going is a bit like getting the Aston Martin out the garage - you have to run it every now and then!

Colin Salmon

#32. Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Alice Hoffman