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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. -- Herbert Hoover
That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think. -- Walter Salles
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. -- Vernon Howard
Keep passing the open windows. -- John Irving
Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels. -- Richard Wilbur
An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in. -- Mike Hernacki
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window. -- Charles Baudelaire
Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain. -- Ani DiFranco
Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves. -- Stephen Covey
Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks. -- Shashi Tharoor
This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness.... -- Ted Kooser
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds. -- Kathe Kollwitz
I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.â?¦ Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Often a starwas waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward youout of the distant path, or as you walkedunder an open window, a violinyielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. -- Bertrand Russell
Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun. -- Anthony Liccione
I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls. -- A. L. Rowse
The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted. -- Jerry Leiber
All the windows of my heart I open to the day. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. -- Mignon McLaughlin
If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you. -- Mahalia Jackson
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. -- Bela Lugosi
I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you. -- Cathy Rigby
I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor. -- Zachary Quinto
For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux. -- Barton Gellman
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven. -- Douglas Horton
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. -- Franz Kafka
For me, the Lord has opened the windows of heaven and showered blessings upon my family beyond my ability to express. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I'm a girl that loves cars. I've always loved them. I love to drive with the windows down, sunroof open, and music pumping. -- Rachel Nichols
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world. -- Steven Pinker
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. -- Mary Frances Berry
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. -- George Bernard Shaw
I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected. -- Bruno Rossi
Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open. -- Roger Ebert
Please leave the window open. -- Jim Varney
Close the language-door, and open the love-window -- Rumi
Please come back soon. The window is always open. -- Elizabeth Wein
We are not going to keep the window open forever. -- Barack Obama
I have always loved a window, especially an open one. -- Wendell Berry
There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there. -- Robin Williams
A noble heart is a window to find an open mind. -- Anuj
A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape. -- Isabel Allende
Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak -- Rumi
Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open. -- Henry James
The window of heaven is what all truth seekers are trying to open. -- Harold Klemp
The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it. -- Debasish Mridha
If the eyes are the window to your soul open eyes bring the cold. -- Common
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule. -- George Herbert
Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room. -- Yosa Buson
Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
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Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours. -- Rumi
Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air,new lights and new truths to enter. -- Amit Ray
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window. -- Henry James
Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. -- Rumi
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp. -- Dani Shapiro
Life has dazzling beauty. To see it, open the window of the mind and remove the curtain of conformity. -- Debasish Mridha
If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in. -- Behdad Sami
Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out. -- Rumi
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open -- T. S. Eliot
I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world. -- Burton Silverman
What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly. -- Nora Roberts
A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in. -- James M. Barrie
We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find. -- Natasha Bedingfield
Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere. -- Bruce Springsteen
To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us. -- N. T. Wright
That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it. -- Dorianne Laux
What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being. -- Vladimir Nabokov
You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return. -- Jean de La Fontaine
If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first. -- Dan Abnett
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open? -- Wei Wu Wei
The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who. -- Al Yankovic
In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me . I know this is God. -- Gao Xingjian

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