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Window Quotes

What we see when we look through one.

This set plays with the word "window" both literally and as metaphor - a clarinet spotted in a shop window, the physical idea of climbing out one, and the classic image of books opening a narrow life onto something larger. Related: Good.

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

Quotes by Adoniram Judson

That little window like 2004 through like 2010 was probably the most, like most inspiring time of my creative life, for sure.

Quotes by Adam Granduciel

The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is...

Quotes by Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.

Quotes by A. J. McLean

Car Quotes

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always...

Quotes by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

Quotes by Zachary Quinto

I remember sitting by my window, wishing upon the stars that my skin condition would go away. I wondered, 'Why me?'

Quotes by Winnie Harlow

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

Quotes by Willie Dixon

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

Quotes by William T. Wiley

Good Quotes

I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.

Quotes by William Clay Ford, Jr.

I think most people agree with the idea of shared sacrifice, but for many, when push comes to shove, that principle goes out the window.

Quotes by Whitney Tilson

Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window.

Quotes by Whitney Wolfe Herd

Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?

Quotes by Wendy O. Williams

I would pass this music store on the way to school, and there was a clarinet in the window, a second-hand one. And I kept asking my parents to buy it, and eventually they did. I still have it now.

Quotes by Wayne Shorter

Life Quotes

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walt Whitman

As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a...

Quotes by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

Quotes by Vince Neil

I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they...

Quotes by Vince Vaughn

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.

Quotes by Vidal Sassoon

Like Quotes

What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

Quotes by Vernon Howard

Frequently Asked Questions

What different meanings of "window" show up in this collection?
The quotes use "window" in a few distinct ways - a literal window, a shop window that held a longed-for instrument, and window as a metaphor for opportunity or a view into a bigger world through books.
Is there a quote about buying an instrument?
Yes - one nostalgic quote recalls passing a music store "on the way to school" and seeing "a clarinet in the window, a second-hand one," eventually convincing their parents to buy it - a small, specific memory that still means something to the speaker.
Is there a quote about books and reading here?
Yes - one quote poetically describes books as "the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe," capturing how reading can expand a limited early life.
What does "window of opportunity" mean in the quote here?
One speaker, an actor, uses it as career language, describing "a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor" - a limited-time chance created by their visibility in the industry.
Where can I find more quotes in a similar reflective style?
Try our Life quotes or Looking quotes pages for more quotes about perspective and opportunity.

One quote leans on "window of opportunity" as a career metaphor, tying the physical and figurative senses together. Explore more at Life or Car.