#windows

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. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#different #directly #down #i #looking

Through the window, I saw the beautiful world outside: the sky, the sun, the cacti, the rocks, and the dirt. How I longed to return to it! I licked at the air, trying to smell the desert's delicious dusty scent, but could not. How was I able to see it without smelling it? Did humans control scents as well as the temperature and the waters? Is that what windows were for, to keep out scents? Why did they wish to put invisible barriers between themselves and the world? ↗

— Patrick Jennings

#scent #scents #snakes #wild #windows

Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails because, in the moment, just about any task seems more palatable than sitting down to write.” (p.136) ↗

— Mark David Gerson

#filing #floors #fridges #returning-calls #toilets

A house without books is like a room without windows. ↗

— Horace Mann

#house #simile #windows #books

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#gambled #i #mother #sister #through

Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#even #keeps #postfix #process #requires

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity. ↗

— Jean Houston

#doors #indeed #key #meaning #our

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

#break #breeze #cooling #day #flows

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#characters #exterior #films #i #interior

The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell. ↗

— Robert Olen Butler

#humor #windows #death