Quotes of: Pane Keyword

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

Tracy Kidder

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

George Orwell

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...

John Geddes

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

Emmeline Pankhurst

Look at it,' he said, gesturing. 'This window looks down upon hundreds more panes of glass, and behind those panes live thousands upon thousands of lost souls. When I feel cast down and helpless, scores of other men do as well, and when I am bitterly...

Seven for a Secret

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

Brida

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.

1984

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

Khalil Gibran

NEW HAIKU One breathy vowel mists the glass warming window panes crystalled with snow Robin Glasser

Love

... only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane...

A Familiar Rain

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Charles Baudelaire

...the wind has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ...

A Familiar Rain

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

TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.

Jack Dorsey

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.

Love

Gray fall light came through the nine square glass panes. On days like this, the strips of white wood that separated the glass seemed brighter to the eye than did the window light.

The Sherlockian

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

Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on.

William Henry Bragg

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

There can be few places more conducive to the quiet, solitary contemplation of melancholy thoughts than a window-seat; and if beyond the window-panes there is a steely vignette of November murk and withered twigs, so much the better.

Indiscretion

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.

The Secret