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My father had a healthy disregard for social conventions: he once let me paint the house windows in rainbows with my watercolor set, to my mother's horror, and he'd clap for trees that he thought were doing a good job of exploding into red during the fall. -- Jennifer duBois
I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard. -- Sarah Hall
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
When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween. -- Gavin DeGraw
My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful. -- Queen Latifah
Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window. -- Maria Bamford
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house! -- Nanci Griffith
I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes coming off it. -- Greg Wise
The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf. -- Leslie Jamison
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. -- Horace Mann
Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows. -- Robert Fortune
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women. -- Jerry Saltz
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. -- Tennessee Williams
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. -- Arne Jacobsen
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace. -- John Owen
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. -- Jean Kerr
I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather. -- Natalia Kills
My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that. -- Julia Cameron
Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. -- Benjamin Britten
I love the idea of a tiny window between the back stoop and the pantry, where the milkman would pass through the cheese. But of course, there is no milkman anymore. So somebody coming by the house and seeing the window would say, 'Oh, that must be original, because that's where the milkman passed the cheese through to the pantry.' -- Chris Van Allsburg
A house without books is like a room without windows. -- Horace Mann
We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons. -- Chic Murray
Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful. -- Laozi
We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows. -- Frederick Salomon Perls
If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows. -- Rumi
Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down, -- Sarah Hanson-Young
There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. -- Miriam Toews
I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world. -- Confucius
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode. -- Henry David Thoreau
I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling. -- Mahatma Gandhi
This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger. -- Helen Oyeyemi
so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache. -- Pablo Neruda
How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open. -- Paulo Coelho
Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining. -- Samuel Beckett
Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows. -- Billie Holiday
No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity. -- Michael Parkinson
The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches. -- Robert David Steele

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