window

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
e56c382	Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.	daytime day window	Edith Wharton
1dc5822	Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?	books faces shop windows face shops window pages search	Virginia Woolf
8288fc1	"Thank you for helping my sister," he says. I lean forward, mimicking his position. "I'm happy to." Calliope leans out her window. "STOP FLIRTING AND GET BACK TO WORK."	funny lola stephanie-perkins lola-and-the-boy-next-door cricket flirt window	Stephanie Perkins
ad9964c	I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.	people smiled stare pathetic oblivious window smile	Markus Zusak
4f4af64	She opened her curtains, and looked out towards the bit of road that lay in view, with fields beyond outside the entrance-gates. On the road there was a man with a bundle on his back and a woman carrying her baby; in the field she could see figures moving - perhaps the shepherd with his dog. Far off in the bending sky was the pearly light; and she felt the largeness of the world and the manifold wakings of men to labor and endurance. She was a part of that involuntary, palpitating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining.	view window	George Eliot
88a659a	How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.	love window house	Paulo Coelho
4a642ab	"A squirrel flies in," said Dr. Meescham. "This I did not expect at all. It is what I love about life, that things happen which I do not expect. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, we left the window open for this very reason, even in the winter. We did it because we believed something wonderful might make its way to us through the open window. Did wonderful things find us? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But tonight it has happened! Something wonderful!" Dr. Meescham clapped her hands. "A window has been left open. A squirrel flies in the window. The heart of an old woman rejoices!" --	open openness window	Kate DiCamillo
3d8a70d	Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it. Maybe that's what these pages of words are about: Bringing the world to the window.	words old-man small window place shadow	Markus Zusak
d845bc2	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.	fear flames window fire soul eyes	Beth Revis
e7776f0	"Her latest client is Professor Desmond Curnin, a university professor who teaches library sciences to large groups of students. He's quick to pay on-time, quick to never fall behind. He's a brown-haired man with an unkempt beard and thick-framed hipster glasses. He slides a leather briefcase stuffed with dollar bills into the open window of Geraldine's car. "Your fly's unzipped," Geraldine points out, disgusted. "Who gave you a license to sell hot dogs, buddy?"	money library briefcase buddy cash glasses hipster hot-dog leather lewd professor unzip window fly car disgust	Rebecca McNutt
d1f131e	I never cared much for machinery. I could not see into their complications or feel interested in them. . . In sweet June weather I would lean far out of the window, and try not to hear the unceasing clash of sound inside.	window summer	Howard Zinn
19afebe	When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.	views smog window	Markus Zusak
8373153	The broken window theory argues that minor nuisances, if left unchecked, turn into major nuisances: that is, if someone breaks a window and sees it isn't fixed immediately, he gets the signal that it's all right to break the rest of the windows and maybe set the building afire too.	theory window freakonomics	Steven D. Levitt
a62d61c	Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.	colfer modernage lawyer window	Eoin Colfer
0668802	The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.	time shed window last	Mitch Albom

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Edith Wharton

1dc5822

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

books faces shop windows face shops window pages search

Virginia Woolf

8288fc1

"Thank you for helping my sister," he says. I lean forward, mimicking his position. "I'm happy to." Calliope leans out her window. "STOP FLIRTING AND GET BACK TO WORK."

funny lola stephanie-perkins lola-and-the-boy-next-door cricket flirt window

Stephanie Perkins

ad9964c

I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.

people smiled stare pathetic oblivious window smile

Markus Zusak

4f4af64

She opened her curtains, and looked out towards the bit of road that lay in view, with fields beyond outside the entrance-gates. On the road there was a man with a bundle on his back and a woman carrying her baby; in the field she could see figures moving - perhaps the shepherd with his dog. Far off in the bending sky was the pearly light; and she felt the largeness of the world and the manifold wakings of men to labor and endurance. She was a part of that involuntary, palpitating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining.

view window

George Eliot

88a659a

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

love window house

Paulo Coelho

4a642ab

"A squirrel flies in," said Dr. Meescham. "This I did not expect at all. It is what I love about life, that things happen which I do not expect. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, we left the window open for this very reason, even in the winter. We did it because we believed something wonderful might make its way to us through the open window. Did wonderful things find us? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But tonight it has happened! Something wonderful!" Dr. Meescham clapped her hands. "A window has been left open. A squirrel flies in the window. The heart of an old woman rejoices!" --

open openness window

Kate DiCamillo

3d8a70d

Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it. Maybe that's what these pages of words are about: Bringing the world to the window.

words old-man small window place shadow

Markus Zusak

d845bc2

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.

fear flames window fire soul eyes

Beth Revis

e7776f0

"Her latest client is Professor Desmond Curnin, a university professor who teaches library sciences to large groups of students. He's quick to pay on-time, quick to never fall behind. He's a brown-haired man with an unkempt beard and thick-framed hipster glasses. He slides a leather briefcase stuffed with dollar bills into the open window of Geraldine's car. "Your fly's unzipped," Geraldine points out, disgusted. "Who gave you a license to sell hot dogs, buddy?"

money library briefcase buddy cash glasses hipster hot-dog leather lewd professor unzip window fly car disgust

Rebecca McNutt

d1f131e

I never cared much for machinery. I could not see into their complications or feel interested in them. . . In sweet June weather I would lean far out of the window, and try not to hear the unceasing clash of sound inside.

window summer

Howard Zinn

19afebe

When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.

views smog window

Markus Zusak

8373153

The broken window theory argues that minor nuisances, if left unchecked, turn into major nuisances: that is, if someone breaks a window and sees it isn't fixed immediately, he gets the signal that it's all right to break the rest of the windows and maybe set the building afire too.

theory window freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt

a62d61c

Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.

colfer modernage lawyer window

Eoin Colfer

0668802

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.

time shed window last

Mitch Albom