He turned to take one last look at the Old People’s Home that – until a few moments ago – he had thought would be his last residence on Earth, and then he told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place. The hundred-year-old...
In itself a wall on which a panoramic view of a non-existent world is drawn does not change. But for a great deal of money you can buy a view from the window with a painted sun, a sky-blue bay and a calm evening. Unfortunately the author of this frag...
It was clear to me by now that studying Islam was one thing – and absolutely worthwhile, because it helped me grasp the meaning of the religion and how it all fitted together. However, I felt as though I was standing in front of a shop window full ...
There was nothing to see in the room, but his brain pulled multiple vivid memories to the forefront of his mind. Entering the house as husband and wife, with Angela holding onto his arm. The night his father died in the downstairs bedroom while he wa...
The girl looks out the window, watching the gentle, familiar blue sky fade into darkness. The stars come out, slowly at first and then all together, diamond-bright, each one a new world to discover. But no matter how long the girl looks, she feels no...
...if in the heat of the dispute he insists and asks, 'Am I not the master of throwing myself out of the window?' I shall answer him, no; that whilst he preserves his reason there is no probability that the desire of proving his free agency, will bec...
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me. Vague dream-head lifted out of the ground, And thing next most diffuse to cloud, Not all your light tongues talking aloud...
If I do not agree with something or do not like something, it will be wrong to presume that I hate it. Presuming disagreement or dislike to be the same as hatred is stifling engagement. Disengagement leads to otherness, which leads to fear, which in ...
Wallace Wells: [to Scott] Everything does suck. [phone rings] Wallace Wells: Or does it? [picks up the phone] Wallace Wells: Hello? Oh, hey Knives. What's that? You're outside? [Scott stands up quickly] Knives Chau: [Knives knocks on the front door] ...
It's always been you; it'll always be you Angel.
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.
Kissing girls is easy, like breaking windows.
If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.
But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.
...she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.
My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.
The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
