Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
Lynn Swann
OpportunitySportsDoorsWindows
When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light.
Kip Thorne
LightUniverseWindowsFirstOutUp
My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the two windows, was a little corner where my books were kept, and other thing - my watercolors and so on. Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise.
Gunter Grass
SisterEarlyPlaceWindowsLiving
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Erma Bombeck
CarChildrenSayingYouWindows
As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.
David Blunkett
EducationWindowsOutsideEmployment
Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.
Bill Gates
FutureKeyWindowsSurfaceComputer
Who is against human rights in Belarus today? Of course, no one should view human rights as the right to smash shop windows or stir up unrest in the streets.
Alexander Lukashenko
TodayViewWindowsHumanRightUp
Traditional PCs face competition from specialty products like Palm Pilots and from the servers that provide the nodes in computer networks. Microsoft's Windows CE hasn't done too well in the specialty-device market, and its Windows NT faces strong competition for server customers.
Virginia Postrel
CompetitionFaceStrongWindowsDone
One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with two million kids running the XO? And the answer is yes. We want kids connected and the largest possible number is the goal.
Nicholas Negroponte
BetterGoalWindowsWantPossible
I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.
Ben Hecht
PoliceKeyLakeWindowsChicago
That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.
Walter Salles
ThinkBetterYouWindowsUnderstand
Due to broken windows policing, the following interactions can lead to tickets, arrests and summonses, warrants if tickets go unpaid and, in some cases, violence: jaywalking, sleeping on a park bench, spitting, putting your feet up on the subway, and more.
Opal Tometi
BrokenFeetViolenceWindowsGo
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor
DownWindowsAirComingEmpireShut
Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.
Barry Sternlicht
FutureWindowsTrendsPositionGoing
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.
Joel Madden
HopeRomanticMeAmericaWindows
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
SpaceLookingDownStopWindowsOut
I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.
Amory Lovins
ManI AmWindowsGlassWithoutCost
I shined shoes; I did windows.
Ruby Dee
ShoesWindowsDid
When people think of Mozilla, they generally think of the browser, but Mozilla is really much more than that. Mozilla is of interest to people who want an end-user application like our browser that's not tied directly into the Windows platform.
Mitchell Baker
PeopleThinkWindowsWantMoreLike
I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.
Dolly Parton
LookingChurchYouWindowsGoKnow
Every digital video player - RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Vevo, Hulu, YouTube - all of them had different ways of getting you the video, but it was still always the same series of rectangles. The format never changed.
Chris Milk
MediaYouWindowsNeverDigital
The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.
Arnold Newman
LightDayThoughtEvery DayWindows
Windows Mobile enables our industry partners to customize devices according to their customers' needs while including productivity features such as access to e-mail, contacts, calendar, and other critical business information for mobile workers on the go.
Suzan DelBene
BusinessInformationCalendarWindows
You'll see in 'Carol' a lot of shots shot through windows, glass and awnings, with interruptions between where we are and where our object is. To me, I hope that that conjures the whole act of looking as a predicament, as something that is never easy and never completely attainable.
Todd Haynes
HopeMeLookingEasyYouWindows
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