Skylights Quotes

• I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

  Steven Wright

  Divertido, Humor, Gente

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• The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Book, Rain, Clouds

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.21

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• No quería ventanas, sólo claraboyas. Elegí mi pared para pintar porque tiene la mejor luz de la mañana.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Mañana, Pared, Luz

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• The light is really the most important thing, so if you don't have skylights and if you don't have north light, this is like having a natural skylight. Light is the crucial factor. With wet oil paints, you don't want any hot spots or bounce.

  Pierre Coupey

  Light, Oil, Important

  "Dream Studio". opusartsupplies.com. October 30, 2011.

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• In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

  Tom Robbins

  Wall, Writing, Clouds

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• Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.

  Emma Donoghue

  Goodbye, Doors, Looks

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.225, Pan Macmillan

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• It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language. I was lucky enough to be a part of it at one point in its life, and it's a timely thing to deliver it again in the modern world.

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Lucky, World

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the shower, for Christ's sake.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sunshine, White, Antiques

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• Es un gran escritor. Si no lo creyera no habría intentado matarlo... Era el campeón y cuando leí sus cosas supe que tenía algo. Así que le tiré una pesada claraboya de cristal en la cabeza en una fiesta de borrachos. Pero no puedes matarlo. No es humano.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Locura, Fiesta, Beber

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• Y detrás de sus frágiles tabiques, las mujeres de negocios yacen y se remojan, Viendo a través del tragaluz con corrientes de aire Nubes voladoras y humo de ferrocarril. Descansad allí, pobres desamparados, Regodead vuestra soledad en el calor, ¡Demasiado pronto el pequeño desayuno, el trolebús y la calle ventosa!

  John Betjeman

  Loneliness, Lying, Clouds

  John Betjeman, “Business Girls”

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• All I know is, he found out you left and he locked himself in the shed and barricaded the door. No one's seen him since," Doug said. "When I bolted, Sean and Evan were trying to boost Caleb up onto the roof so he could look through the skylight and make sure the kid wasn't dead or something.

  Kate Brian

  Kids, Doors, Trying

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