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A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window. – Dejan Stojanovic
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world. – George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. – George Bernard Shaw
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. – Thomas Peters
Isn't it funny how we'll look out the window at the moon, and then we notice it's not the moon but a streetlight Also what's funny is how we do this every night. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul. – Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept
The eyes are the window of the soul. – English Proverb
Dr. Paul: Get out, get out libidinous swine! And take that painted strumpet with you. May you both rot in the filth of your own fornication! Nicky: And what did you say to him? Dr. Paul: Say, Madam? I said nothing. I simply pulled up my tights and jumped out of the bathroom window. Nicky: Oh Dr. Paul, you're so naughty! Dr. Paul: Well, I try, Madam. And then, ten minutes later when I've got my breath back, I try again! – Meekin
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. – Glenda Jackson
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. – Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. – Paul Fussell
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. – Carl Sandburg
But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. – William Shakespeare
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. – William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits." – Paul Graham, September 2004
Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite picture. – Steven Wright
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. – Mark Twain
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. – Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
How come, just as the rocket is launching, the astronauts don't also shoot some fireworks out the window It would make the whole takeoff look more impressive. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If I was a cowboy in a lynch mob, I think I'd try to stay near the back. That way, if somebody shamed us into disbanding, I could sort of slip off to the side and pretend I was window-shopping or something. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If your thoughts are universal, you visit every house, every window, like the Moon on the sky! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves. – Sigmund Freud
Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. – Andrew Schneider
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. – Kahlil Gibran

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