#windows

The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds. ↗

— Tod Wodicka

#birds #clouds #prague #sunset #tropical-paradise

Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform. ↗

— Jim Allchin

#developers #easier #jobs #likely #lot

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

#cleaning #denied #lack #life #masterpiece

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. ↗

— George Combe

#alarm #astonishment #avoid #catching #caused

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

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#could #court #day #days #flames

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#doors #get #go #life #man

Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women! ↗

— Burt Ward

#banging #date #down #else #even

Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#computers #itunes #mac #steve-jobs #windows

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#ago #am #any #aware #captured