Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
I feel relief after the transfer window is closed. I got tired of reading and listening every day about me leaving or staying at Liverpool. Everyone wrote ‘Dejan is here, Dejan is there,’ and they knew nothing!
While I was living in New York a friend and I flew to Miami and travelled through a storm. I could see lightning strikes through the window. I grabbed my friend’s hand tightly and kept repeating: ‘We’re going to die! We’re going to die!’ Thank goodness he was there as I don’t know what I’d have done if I was on my own.
When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It’s better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.
The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things.
Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author’s imagination.
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It’s present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I’m back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.
In the Soyuz, the little Russian capsule, you can actually hear the banging of the big shield, the big heat shield on the bottom, as it slowly erodes away from the heat and pieces of it fly off like sparks across your window, and it’s an interesting thing to ride through, you know.
I’m definitely a lot more reserved without the mask on. And with the mask on, all those inhibitions kinda go out the window. I can act like Keith Richards, I guess!
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of.
I have had window braces smashed in the front of my car, several times. They fail all the time in the front.
In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
I got a small window of time to be an NFL quarterback. Some day when I’m done playing I can sit back and look at what we accomplished, or how does it feel, or what’s it like.
Paul Rudd’s a really weird, silly, silly man. He gets on ‘Friends,’ and he gets to show, like, one tiny little window of how truly berserk he can be.
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you’re a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you’re trying to get a film financed.
Dogs are a window on the natural world.
Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my sordid imagination for comedic words of beauty.
There is a core of people who know and love Madam C.J. Walker, but there’s a much larger audience who don’t really know about her. I think ‘Self Made’ will give people a window into her life.
Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you’re thinking, like, ‘This thing is going to come to me.’
A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
I had this moment in church, which I think really turned me off. I was 7 or 8 years old and I was sitting at church, and we happened to be playing with the sunlight that was coming down from the stained glass window, and the monsignor came down to the pew and grabbed us by our neck collars and said, ‘I’ll deal with you.’
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.
The act of littering annoys me more than anything, particularly drivers who throw stuff out of the car window.
A horror film does not rely on dialogues and music. It is the sound of creaking doors, the window banging open and the build-up that is not easy to achieve.
When you come to Manchester United, in every transfer window – whether the team is doing well or badly – there are always players linked with the club because this club is always linked with the best players.
Food is important in working out a character. How she eats is a window into her temperament. If I think she likes her food, I’ll put on a few pounds, or lose a few if she lives on her nerves.
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
Hair excited me. As the old ways – backcombing, rollers and rigidity – went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
I spend most flights staring out into that endless cloudscape and watching the planet drift by below. I never understand people who close the window shade. There’s magic out there.
For me, the blank page to draw on is a window to adventure.
After I had done the first ‘Pirates’ movie and ‘Secret Window,’ I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, ‘Oh well, let’s go see it.’ I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.
Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it’s the only place where we can keep track of ideas.
For most of the Latinos in our nation, merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable would mean one company controlling their window to the world of culture and entertainment.
But its jobs, jobs that pubs create and help sustain, thats massive. My pub alone, we get so many different bar staff, especially the young coming in, getting a start in life, learning to talk to people. And thats just inside the trade, theres outside… window cleaners, tradesmen.
The idea of windows, that’s so symbolic to me within labor. And I’m always opening windows during a birth. If someone’s been in labor all night and they’re exhausted and sort of over it, opening a window or drawing a curtain can change the game. And sometimes the doula is the first one to suggest it.
Looking out the window and seeing the MGM and Floyd Mayweather takes me back to when I was a kid. Those were the places you’d hear about, the ones that staged big fights and top fighters. You always want to one day fight there yourself.
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we’d made a connection.
When I’m writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
If I see a spider in the flat, I try to get a cup and a piece of paper and throw it out of the window. I can’t kill them because they’re good for catching flies.
I was so famous that I couldn’t leave the hotel room. I remember looking out of the window at all these fans but just feeling so isolated.
In high school, despite my involvement on four different sports teams, I threw my duties of being a jock out the window and spent my spare time in wrestling training or on the PS2.
Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there’s no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.
It is nice to know different languages and cultures because it opens up your window to life.
When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone’s life.
My wife Steph and I sailed on Royal Princess from Barcelona to Marseille in 2017. I’m the designated family car driver and there was something quite appealing about not driving on holiday but watching the world moving outside our window.
The view from space is really very special. From the window, you can look back at the Earth and see the stars around you. I just hope that more people from Britain get the chance to experience it.
Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
