Staring Out The Window Quotes:

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.

- Burton Rascoe

source: "Shake Well Before Using: A New Collection of Impressions and Anecdotes, Mostly Humorous" by Bennett Cerf, (p. 118), 1948.

topic: Writing, Wife, Window, Staring Out The Window, Editing And Writing

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

- Rogers Hornsby

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Spring, Baseball Games, Great Sports

...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Thinking, Long, Window, Staring Out The Window

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

- Samuel Beckett

source: Malone Dies (1958) p. 44

topic: Use, Body, Window, Staring Out The Window

My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.

- Noel Gallagher

topic: Thinking, Goes On, Window, Staring Out The Window

I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Eye, Science, Ideas, Staring Out The Window, Most Inspiring

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

- Gail Caldwell

source: Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.24, Random House

topic: Children, Reading, Ideas, Staring Out The Window

I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was. I couldn’t sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else. I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it’s because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. And, I always saw myself, wherever I was in life, staring out the window.

- Angelina Jolie

source: "Angelina Jolie: Billy Bob, Knives and Sex". abcnews.go.com. July 11.

topic: Sleep, Night, Thinking, Staring Out The Window

Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I arrive at my office at 8:37. I stay in the office until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I get in my Porsche and I'm home at 2:03 because the one-way streets make it faster for me to drive. And between 8:36 am and 2 pm, I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

- Thomas Harris

topic: Morning, Home, Writing, Porsche, Staring Out The Window

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Dog, Rain, Giants, Staring Out The Window

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.

- Scott Westerfeld

source: Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2012). “Goliath”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

topic: War, Cities, Use, Staring Out The Window