Recalibration After Windshield Quotes

I would like to have windshield wipers that do the whole windshield, please. ~ Demetri Martin

I got my windshield replaced for no apparent reason. So now I have a new windshield that looks exactly like my old one, only cleaner. ~ Jarod Kintz

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation. ~ Ilchi Lee

Let's say you get a present and open it and it's a fabulous diamond necklace. Initially, you're delirious with happiness, jumping up and down, you're so excited. The next day, the necklace still makes you happy, but less so. After a year, you see the necklace and you think, Oh, that old thing. It's the same for negative emotions. Let's say you get a crack in your windshield and you're really upset. Oh no, my windshield, it's ruined, I can hardly see out of it, this is a tragedy! But you don't have enough money to fix it, so you drive with it. In a month, someone asks you what happened to your windshield, and you say, What do you mean? Because your brain has discounted it. ~ Maria Semple

Thinking you can earn eternal life by just reading the Bible a lot is like staring at the windshield while driving, hoping you'll get where you want to go. The windshield isn't there to be looked at; it is designed to be looked through. ~ Jefferson Bethke

Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper ... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music. ~ Artie Shaw

Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, being open to emptiness as the ultimate reality and our nature. It is the purest mind, the Energy-Consciousness itself. ~ Ilchi Lee

Morning light through his windshield was pale and tired; the city had the desultory, cluttered look of a living room after a drunken party; Martin ~ Richard North Patterson

When is the 'look out the windshield phase' of driving? Pretty much all driving is looking out the windshield! It's not a phase. Saying 'testing takes too long' is a bit like saying 'safe driving takes too long. ~ Gerald M. Weinberg

After about half an hour, Mr. Sorenson turns onto a narrow unpaved road. Dirt rises around us as we drive, coating the windshield and side windows. We pass more fields and then a copse of birch tree skeletons, cross through a dilapidated covered bridge over a murky stream still sheeted with ice, turn down a bumpy dirt road bordered by pine trees. Mr. Sorenson is holding a card with what looks like directions on it. He slows the truck, pulls to a stop, looks back toward the bridge. Then he peers out the grimy windshield at the trees ahead. "No goldarn signs," he mutters. He puts his foot on the pedal and inches forward. Out ~ Christina Baker Kline

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future. ~ Joel Osteen

Outside, a light rain began to fall. The coat turned on our windshield wipers. ~ Rick Riordan

I sat back in my seat and stared out the windshield, much of what I knew about the order of the universe rearranging itself. Perhaps Jennifer Sylvester wasn't feeble after all. Perhaps Jennifer Sylvester was fierce.

That makes no sense. Nobody is that good at playing possum. Well . . . nobody but me. ~ Penny Reid

Nooooooooooo!" Screaming the word, Amy and Dan moved as one.
Time slowed down, which, Dan knew from experience, often happened when you were in midair. By the time they leaped onto the hood of Fiske's car (oops, dents), and Dan had ripped off a windshield wiper to use as a weapon (probably not the best idea, but hey, he was improvising), Scarey Harley Dude had turned around.
He strode off in his motorcycle boots, moving swiftly to his bike without seeming to hurry. His helmet back on, sunglasses adjusted, he roared off straight into the road, weaving through the thick traffic like smoke.
Amy's face was squashed against the windshield. Dan held the wiper aloft like a club.
And Evan Tolliver stood on the sidewalk, blinking at them.
Dan waved the windshield wiper at him. "Hey, bro. We didn't want to miss our ride. ~ Jude Watson

He had all the self-preservation instincts of a bug near a shiny windshield. ~ Karen Chance

Evans was punching the shattered windshield out and thinking he was some helluva hero. ~ Mark Henwick

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. ~ Byrd Baggett

That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield. ~ Richard Bachman

The Brown Coast"
"Not long after the affair had run its course, Bob and his wife were driving to town when Vicky looked up and saw the phantom outline of a woman's footprint on the windshield over the glove box. She slipped her sandal off, saw that the print did not match her own, and told Bob that he was no longer welcome in their home. ~ Wells Tower

Lying on his back, Jess kicked furiously at the windshield. Damn. It. Break. Already. You. Sorry. Son. Of. A. Biscuit. Eating. Cat. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Make a sound and I will blow your brains out all over the windshield. ~ Jack Bauer

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. ~ John Lithgow

And then suddenly Danny's arms were around me, and his lips were on mine, and the crazy windshield wipers commenced singing our names together. ~ Irene Hunt

I just bought a Lambourghini, I'm not even into racing with a windshield full of tickets cause I live right by the station. ~ Drake

He was so damn hard, he could chip the ice from his truck's windshield with his rigid pecker. ~ Vonnie Davis

And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Trees, skies, valleys mountains, seen through the rain-spotted windshield, were like a distorted, stippled landscape painted by a beginner who has not yet learned to wring living colour from his palette. ~ Stella Benson

March on. Don't look in the rearview, just the windshield. ~ Josh Bowman

Five hours after presenting a ... lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the tailgate (the back window) was shot out (300 miles removed from the first shooting) ... The late Arthur T. Harris, MD, was threatened by two men with assassination if he continued to use Laetrile. ~ Ernst T. Krebs

I got so much food spit back in my face when my kids were small, I put windshield wipers on my glasses. ~ Erma Bombeck

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please ... ~ Agatha Christie

Not giving a shit, she decided, is like the defrost option on a car's heater that miraculously unfogs the windshield, allowing you to see where you're headed. ~ Richard Russo

Respect is something that should be earned, like eyebrows shaped like windshield wipers in a stormy arcade evening. I like my respect with lots of elbow room and melted cheese on top. ~ Jarod Kintz

some days you're the windshield...sometimes you're the bug... ~ Ron Stelle

No Daimon gets out of here alive. (They hit the invisible wall and rebounded off it.) Man. It really makes you feel for the bug on the windshield, doesn't it? (Acheron) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

The family behind us wants to leave." He twists to peer through the back windshield. "They already have two kids. Let's follow them home." "Let's not. ~ Elle Kennedy

When something large and oncoming passed, the windshield's big rectangle was for a moment incandesced and opaque with water, which the wipers heaved mightily to displace. ~ David Foster Wallace

Accept that some days you're the bug, and some days you're going to be the windshield. ~ Jill Shalvis

Through that windshield I saw a city that didn't know it was hungry and a reflection of a guy who was FREE. ~ Roy Choi

It's the last day of the year
and I still lose myself in good books
and warm tea,
those quiet nights
and writing your name
on my windshield. ~ Courtney Peppernell

A car is a couch with wheels. My windshield wipers don't work, so I've decided to stop watering my living room carpet. Honk if you want coffee, and I'll pour you an umbrellaful. ~ Jarod Kintz

So what, simply put, is the Third Covenant? It is the recalibration, the reawakening of that which is truly human, truly holy. It is truly catholic, kata-holos (Greek "according to the whole"), truly universal, sacred, and unitive. It is made manifest by a unitive noosphere, one that embraces the Monosacred present in all Abrahamic, Indigenous, Chinese, Indian, and any and all other cultures. It embraces the whole biosphere, the whole planet, solar system, galaxy, and universe. It both precedes and succeeds space and time. ~ Albert J. LaChance

It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each drop a small imperfect reflection of a perfect moment. ~ Simon Van Booy

The second blast sounded like the last trump at judgment day. It was so loud I thought the rear windshield was going to burst and the filling in my tooth was going to fall out. ~ James Aura

The wind howled about the bus, and the wipers slooshed heavily back and forth across the windshield, smeering the city into a red and yellow neon wetness. It was early afternoon, but it looked like night through the glass ~ Neil Gaiman

Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief. ~ Jane Leavy

He knew what the thing was going to do next. It was going to climb the hood slowly, toying with them before crushing in the windshield and eating them all alive. ~ Melissa Eskue Ousley

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road. ~ Bill Withers

Turner twisted in his seat to give her a long stare. "You don't always have to come out swinging. What are you so angry at?"

Alex felt an irritating jolt of embarrassment. "Everything." she muttered, gazing at the fogged-up windshield. ~ Leigh Bardugo

around. You can use the three-hole or five-hole stitch, or make up your own version. Some artists I know have worked with take-out menus, junk mail, fliers left on their car windshield wipers - it is fun to take ephemeral materials ~ Esther K. Smith

There are moments in our lives that seem to define us. Moments we keep going back to.
My life before him was so simple & decided. And now after him...there's just...After. ~ Anna Todd (Author Of After)

My heart beats to the rhythm of the windshield wipers. I'd better never drive in the desert, unless I want to die. Our relationship has one too many cactuses in it to be deserving of my love. ~ Jarod Kintz

That's the problem with arguing with Sig. We start at point A and then go straight to step thirteen and wind up in phase orange and then, you know, we're in the linen aisle looking for windshield wipers. I ~ Elliott James

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. ~ Edmund Spenser

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield. ~ Steven Tyler

You return to your car and find a note on the windshield: 'where did you go?' the note is not signed and the love in your heart is gone. It feels as if it was never there at all. ~ Patrick DeWitt

Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield. ~ Anonymous

We change and we discover who we really are." – Noah ~ Anna Todd (Author Of After)

Purple and orange weren't two colors Ruby would ever put together and she couldn't for the life f her understand how this Lord God of theirs could have come up with the combination, but He had, and there they were in the sky outside the Winnebago's windshield. ~ Amy Wallen

The 77-grain bullet has great penetration, too. I shot one guy through the windshield of a car and hit him in the head, right where I was aiming, killing him instantly. If I had been using the lighter bullet, I think it would have been deflected. ~ Hans Halberstadt

They drove through the small town. Theo could see little through the windshield, but his senses were alive. The three of them - the beater, the boy, and the dog - said nothing all the way home, anchored in the weight of their terrible love. ~ Steven James Taylor

You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lifted miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day umtouched, some old, lost sweet tasting time. ~ Colum McCann

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves. ~ Stephen King

I got a body stuck to my windshield!" Lula yelled. "I can't drive like this! I can't get my wipers to work. How am I supposed to drive with a dead guy on my wipers? ~ Janet Evanovich

I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn. ~ Ed Begley, Jr.

After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace. ~ Helen Steiner Rice

After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said
The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love.
And somehow I'm still alive. ~ Carole Maso

He whirled about and growled like a rat-killing mongrel at the two women, then shot them. He reached the car, slid behind the wheel, rolled his eyes upward, and saw a grinning Gloria Morris holding a pistol with both hands and aiming at him through the windshield. ~ G.R. Browda

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out. ~ Tim Pawlenty

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like. ~ John Connolly

When it rains, my windshield wiper fades into the trunks of twisted oaks, but I drive straight, because the trees are drunk. When the trees drink, it's because they've been watered with alcohol, and who feeds trees alcohol, except drunks?
-Jarod Kintz and Stefan Dimov ~ Jarod Kintz

My life before him was so simple and decided, now after him...It's just...After. ~ Anna Todd

The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death. ~ N. T. Wright

So…if you happened to be in Belle's position, could you love a…beast?"
"No," I said, immediately. He looked away, disappointed for some reason.
"Good, that's…very wise," he said, fixing his eyes on the windshield.
"I would love his heart," I confessed. ~ Tatiana Vila

I think we ought to live happily ever after. ~ Diana Wynne Jones

When you decide to be the immovable object standing in front of the unstoppable force, you'd better pray that you're right about being immovable, and they're wrong about being unstoppable.' 'Otherwise, you'll wind up like a bug on a windshield. ~ Seanan McGuire

The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart (in its own time), Dowdy one year after its time, Ridiculous twenty years after its time, Amusing thirty years after its time, Quaint fifty years after its time, Charming seventy years after its time, Romantic one-hundred years after its time, Beautiful one-hundred-and-fifty years after its time. ~ James Laver

Hope is a cancer. One of two things happens. Either you never learn the truth, in which case it gnaws down to the bone until there's nothing left, or worse, you do, and you go through that windshield at ninety because hope told you it was okay to make the drive without a seat belt. ~ Matthew FitzSimmons

I can have a car take you home ... after."
"After?"
"After. ~ Sienna Mynx

The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read. ~ Harry Golden

The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of the East Coast ... So few human contacts in Los Angeles go unmediated by glass (either a TV screen or an automobile windshield), that the direct confrontation renders the participants docile, stunned, sweet. ~ Edmund White

Happily Ever After

Imagine them all
after the plotting, after the ball,
after the spelling, hopping, sweeping,
grumping, grousing, mopping, sleeping,
from small glass shoe to nuisance pea,
so ever after, all happily be-
enchanted with magic
from kingdoms
to seas.
Now close your eyes,
and dream of these. ~ Jane Yolen

FATBACK'S DEAD" The words on the slip of paper struck me like a blow. "Fatback's dead." It was not just the news itself, though the words cut deep. It was the very fact of the note, stuck on my windshield on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota, ~ Kent Nerburn

Cherish love, Marcus. Make it your greatest conquest, your sole ambition. After men, there will be other men. After books, there will be other books. After glory, there will be other glories. After money, there will be yet more money. But after love, Marcus, after love, there is nothing but the salt from tears. ~ Joel Dicker

After a lifetime spent in earnest earnest then what? After chasing after just such, it would have grinned even wider, if old corpses could… but then? ~ George Wier

The phone rang. Joan Rochester leaped to her feet, but Dominick signaled her to sit with a wave of his hand. He wiped his face as though it were a windshield and rose from his seat. Dominick was a thick man. Not fat. Thick. Thick neck, thick shoulders, thick chest, thick arms and thighs. The ~ Harlan Coben

And they lived happily ever after" is as exciting as "Once upon a time. ~ Aphrile

It wasn't a crow from dangling head down from the the car roof and looking in at the window. It was the little gargoyle from Belgravia. When he saw my horrified expression, his catlike face twisted into a triumphant smile, and he spewed a torrent of water over the windshield. - Sapphire Blue ~ Kerstin Gier

When they'd been children there'd been a fallen log in the river, and John had walked on it, keeping his balance, instructing his brother: If you don't think about it, you won't fall. - That would be a perfect epitaph, thought Tyler malevolently, crushing the space invader raindrops with his windshield wipers. ~ William T. Vollmann

It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a period of being bodily dead. Resurrection is a second-stage postmortem life: "life after 'life after death. ~ N. T. Wright

Then - as he was talking - a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he figured it'd be too dark for anybody in the car to see, dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there wasn't enough time left for something he had to do ... ~ Ken Kesey

He started his engine and turned on the windshield wipers in time to see a tall old man stepping out of the cab. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless under a misty streetlamp's glow, staring up at a window of the house like a melancholy traveler frozen in time. As ~ William Peter Blatty

Four things you can't recover:
The stone after the throw,
The word after it's said,
The occasion after it's missed,
The time after it's gone. ~ Deanna Wadsworth

What about your Durango?"
"She's pretty banged up. Gonna need some bodywork and a whole new windshield."
"She?"
He looks at me blankly. "What?"
"You called it a 'she,'" I point out.
"Oh. Right." Color creeps into his cheeks. "Dana Durango."
"You named your car Dana?"
He just shrugs. ~ Kristi Cook

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after. ~ Arthur Phillips

Love comes to those who still hope after disappointment, who still believe after betrayal, and who still love after they've been hurt. ~ Anonymous

When I'm with you," he began again, "it's like ... I still don't feel normal. But I can see normal at twelve o'clock on the horizon." He pointed past me, through the windshield of an imaginary airplane. "At least I know normal is still out there. I've spent the last three months not sure of that at all. ~ Jennifer Echols

On the ride back south, she tapped all the anger-management tricks they'd given her in job training. They played across her windshield like PowerPoint slides. Number One: It's not about you. Number Two: Your plan is not the world's. Number Three: The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (24) ~ Richard Powers

Some things, however, should happen in the correct order. Shoes go on after socks. Peanut butter is applied after the bread comes out of the toaster, not before. And grandchildren are born after their grandparents. ~ Rysa Walker

And they all lived happily ever after, until they died. ~ Ali Smith