#window

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones. ↗

— Huston Smith

#came #experiments #false #gave #hypotheses

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#against #became #black #broken #came

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed. ↗

— Lynn Swann

#african americans #always #been #closed #doors

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#could #ever #i #look #mother

I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this. ↗

— Charles Dance

#burton #charles #coming #dresser #i

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. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#because #been #collaboration #desktop #ditch

She opened her curtains, and looked out towards the bit of road that lay in view, with fields beyond outside the entrance-gates. On the road there was a man with a bundle on his back and a woman carrying her baby; in the field she could see figures moving - perhaps the shepherd with his dog. Far off in the bending sky was the pearly light; and she felt the largeness of the world and the manifold wakings of men to labor and endurance. She was a part of that involuntary, palpitating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining. ↗

— George Eliot

#view #window #life

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#blow #destiny #i #night #strange

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. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#basement #books #floor #graduated #i

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes! ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#bathroom #could #disturbing #facts #family