Famous quotes containing the words floor and/or window:
““Heaven nor hell shall impede my designs,” said Manfred, advancing again to seize the princess. At that instant the portrait of his grandfather ... uttered a deep sigh and heaved its breast. ... Manfred ... saw it quit its panel, and descend on the floor with a grave and melancholy air.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“The mind too closes as it were. As the window might close of a dark empty room.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)