"Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window."
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"And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in."
"We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open"
"The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean."
"I point at a window to my left, and it explodes. Particles of glass rain over us. ‘You’ll have to do better than that,' I say."
"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."
"When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window."
"The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh."
"Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?"
"Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T."
"The one broken window that permanently wouldn't roll up had destroyed her perfectly curled blond prom-hair, and by the time we got to the gym she looked like Marie Antoinette with bedhead."
"Don't all morals go out the window if they're hot enough?"
"If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois."
"A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape."
"Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost."
"I've never had paparazzi follow me and I rarely get recognised. I dress like a tramp when I'm not working. My hairdresser calls me the Romanian window cleaner. That's just the way I am."
"It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain."
"To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule."
"She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened."
"Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as evidence now exists, perhaps within a window of 50-100,000 years ago, a flick of an eye in evolutionary time."