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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

- Alexander Pope

source: Alexander Pope (1778). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators”, p.297

topic: Eye, Men, Glasses, Magnifying, Magnifying Glass

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

source: "This much I know: Amory Lovins". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2008.

topic: Men, Glasses, Cost, Heating

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

- Amy Hempel

source: Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

topic: Sleep, Glasses, Water, Coastal

I wear glasses, have a big scar, I sing loud, and I am blond. I'm sorry!

- Anastacia

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sorry, Glasses, Scar

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

- Andrew Solomon

source: Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

topic: Glasses, Hands, Moments

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

- Catherine Helen Spence

source: Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.23, Wakefield Press

topic: Glasses, Scotland, Tea, Whisky, Cups Of Tea

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

- Catherine Tate

source: "This much I know" by Interview by Dee O'Connell, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2005.

topic: Glasses, Half, Firsts

My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses.

- Chris Ware

source: Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

topic: Glasses, Looks, Ham

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

- Christopher Columbus

source: Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50

topic: Broken Heart, Boys, Glasses, Broken Promises, Purchasing

I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.

- Cornell Woolrich

source: Cornell Woolrich, Mark T. Bassett (1991). “Blues of a Lifetime: Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich”, p.16, Popular Press

topic: Glasses, Feelings, Trying

I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses. I was the epitome of a nerd.

- Danielle Panabaker

source: "Michael Angarano and Danielle Panabaker Talk Sky High". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. August 2, 2005.

topic: School, Glasses, Nerd

Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

source: 'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'

topic: Glasses, Silence, Hours, Hour Glasses

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

- Dick Cavett

source: Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.15, Macmillan

topic: Wise, Glasses, Half, Half Empty

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

- Dorothee Solle

source: Dorothee Sölle (1984). “The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity”, p.155, Westminster John Knox Press

topic: Bible, Glasses, Today

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