Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. (Quote by - George Jean Nathan)

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. (Quote by - Alan Alda)

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. (Quote by - George Combe)

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different. (Quote by - Linus Torvalds)

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)

I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me. (Quote by - Joel Madden)

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. (Quote by - Robert Fortune)

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. (Quote by - Nat Friedman)

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows. (Quote by - Bill Gates)

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from. (Quote by - Gerard Butler)

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues. (Quote by - Philip Gibbs)

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle. (Quote by - John L. Phillips)

Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling. (Quote by - Al Jarreau)

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl. (Quote by - William Cowper)

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. (Quote by - Horace Mann)

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. (Quote by - Linus Torvalds)

We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit. (Quote by - Jennifer Connelly)

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. (Quote by - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up. (Quote by - Bill Joy)

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. (Quote by - Nadia Boulanger)

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. (Quote by - Edward Koch)

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly. (Quote by - Chuck Hagel)