Glass Windows Designed

Famous quotes containing the words glass, windows and/or designed:

    “Nor do I try to keep a garden, only
    An avocado in a glass of water—”
    —James Merrill (b. 1926)

    “The frost was on the village roofs as white as ocean foam;
    The good red fires were burning bright in every ‘longshore home;
    The windows sparkled clear, and the chimneys volleyed out;
    And I vow we sniffed the victuals as the vessel went about.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre—the novel designed on purpose to be excluded from the Booker short-list.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)