Quotes of: Shop-window Keyword

If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.

The Last Window-Giraffe: A Picture Dictionary for the over Fives

Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one’s priorities; one’s sentimental and psychological values go out the window.

La mujer justa

Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.

Lieutenant Lockeast, And Other Stories

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

Manuscript Found in Accra

I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.

Magic Burns

As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

Speak, Memory

If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

My phone is on my bed, whispering in my ear like a bottle of scotch to a recovering alcoholic, while the rain continues cackling at me through my window

The Sea of Tranquility

... the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.

Swann's Way

Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet.

Perfect

I watch baseball on TV like my cat watches the window. Somebody open the blinds so we can see better!

This Book Has No Title

Hark,” he said, his tone very dry. “What stone through yonder window breaks?” Kami yelled up at him, “It is the east, and Juliet is a jerk!

Unspoken

This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Life is a cat asleep on the window sill suddenly waking as it falls from the third floor.

Venezia è un pesce. Una guida

It’s so windy tonight the window is rattling. I guess it’s time to turn off my fan and turn on my anti-hurricane machine that’s powered by love.

Xazaqazax

Our sister Alma was the best hitter in the family. We used to soak corn cobs in water so they wouldn't fly so far when we hit 'em. Alma was the first to hit one far enough to break a window in the barn.

Lloyd Waner

So, what are you?" "What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.

Rapture in Death

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Horace Mann

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

Margaret Cho