There are many days when I want to throw my computer out the window, when I tell myself I'd be better off selling shoes at the mall. But I always keep at it, because I have to. Writing is completely part of who I am. Even if I never published another book, I would keep at it - because it feeds my life and makes it richer.
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
The advice I was given was just to make sure you look out of the window occasionally. It's something no astronaut ever gets tired of doing.
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!
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.
I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.
Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
The window was open for us to play in the consumer as data, voice, video came together. This is where you have to have the courage to take good business risks because if you don't, you never win.
The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.
When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.
I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.
My background is all comedy. I've been doing improv since I was 17. It's funny, because when I meet people, I'm known as this guy who will punch you in the face or throw you out a window, when I also have a background in comedy.
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side.
For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.
I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite liberating, and looking out of the window, watching a procession of landscapes and random-ish objects, is very good for stories.
Dogs are a window on the natural world.
I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
The fans are especially amazing in Mexico. You look out your window, and there are fans that stay out there all night long.
Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.
The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.
