#window

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#children #goes #more #never #saying

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. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#further #goes #heaven #know #knows

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. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#beautiful woman #behind #car #dirty #down

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#actually #changed #direction #eight #five

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. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#gift #heavenly #highest #hung #intellect

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. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#art #criticism #darkness #discernible #enveloping

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. ↗

— Anais Nin

#bird #coffee #escape #fire #i

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window. ↗

— Billy Ocean

#gone #lot #older #out #window

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#beautiful #come #every #felt #field

Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window. ↗

— Eduardo Saverin

#dorm #facebook #harvard #out #window