#window

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#childhood #different #different people #experiences #gives

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#change #compelling #crisis #done #get

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window. ↗

— Alice Munro

#bridge #hasn #i #learn #looking

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#anger

Out of the apartment houses come women who should be young but have faces like stale beer; men with pulled down hats and quick eyes that look the street over behind the cupped hand that shields the match flame; worn intellectuals with cigarette coughs and no money in the bank; fly cops with granite faces and unwavering eyes; cookies and coke peddlers; people who look like nothing in particular and know it, and once in a while even men that actually go to work. But they come out early, when the wide cracked sidewalks are empty and still have dew on them. (from) "The High Window ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#men

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. ↗

— Robert McAfee Brown

#church #content #culture #house #live

The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#international #international community #national community #opportunity #preparedness

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window. ↗

— Alan Cox

#assurance #behind #deadline #everybody #go

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows. ↗

— Lindsay Ellingson

#angels #growing #growing up #i #i always

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#advertise #affiliations #anxiety #automobiles #college