Glasses famous quotes
05-13-2025
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A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
-- Aaron Hill -
Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
-- Abraham Cowley -
The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
-- Adam Savage -
The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
-- Adam Savage -
It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.
-- Adolf Anderssen -
You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.
-- Adolphus Busch -
Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff
-- Adrian Mitchell -
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
-- Adrienne Clarkson -
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran?- It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming.. I don't see any other explanation
-- Ai Yazawa -
The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
-- Aimee Bender -
At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
-- Aimee Mullins -
But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.
-- Al Gore -
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
-- Alan Bennett -
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.
-- Alan Macfarlane -
American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.
-- Alan Moore -
I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.
-- Alanis Morissette -
I think I might have a glass of champagne, if there is any in Nagpur, and just enjoy the moment.
-- Alastair Cook -
Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.
-- Albert Brooks -
If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.
-- Alberto Moravia -
Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without. ...Vested Interests. The manufacture of optical glass...
-- Aldous Huxley -
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
That rock and roll, eh? That rock and roll, it just won't go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swap. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it's always waiting there, just around the corner, ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock and roll, it seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there's nothing you can do about it
-- Alex Turner -
The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone desperately searching for a character who feels the way you do, not the glasses or bottles of whisky you keep by your bed and certainly not Instagram.
-- Alexa Chung -
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
-- Alexander Pope -
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the noble purity of the lines, the rich plasticity of the form and consequently also the poetry and beauty of the picture, and still more important, its specifically photographic qualities.
-- Alexander Rodchenko -
He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.
-- Alexandra Potter -
When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.
-- Alexis Arguello -
A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.
-- Alexis Lichine -
I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image, how the color gets corrupted. I don't necessarily like the experience of having heavy glasses in front of me.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many miracles to be seen through a microscope as through a telescope. Start with little things seen through the magnifying glass of wonder, and just as a magnifying glass can focus the sunlight into a burning beam that can set a leaf aflame, so can your focused wonder set you ablaze with insight. Find the light in each other and just fan it.
-- Alice O. Howell -
Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.
-- Alison Croggon -
What do you think this is, a f****** tea party? No you can't have a f****** glass of water, you can f****** wait like the rest of us.
-- Allan Border -
I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.
-- Alli Simpson -
I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.
-- Ally Condie -
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.
-- Amanda Pays -
DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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 -
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 -
It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?
-- Amy Winehouse -
I wear glasses, have a big scar, I sing loud, and I am blond. I'm sorry!
-- Anastacia -
Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.
-- Andrea Camilleri -
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror
 on a day you’re feeling good. 
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror
 on a day you’re feeling bad.
 I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty
 could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.
-- Andrea Gibson -
I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
You know what it's like," said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?
-- Andrew Klavan -
My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.
-- Andrew Marvell -
I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand
-- Andrew Solomon -
I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.
-- Andy Kennedy -
Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It's like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it's hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you've gained all the experiences it had.
-- Andy Weir -
Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.
-- Angela Ruggiero -
The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask
-- Ani DiFranco -
I never touch it. Not directly, anyway. I always use a glass.
-- Anistatia R. Miller -
We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.
-- Ann Aguirre -
I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.
-- Ann Hood -
Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
-- Ann Landers -
Tell me what’s the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn’t know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope
-- Anna Kamienska -
I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
-- Anne Lamott -
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
-- Anne Lamott -
Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.
-- Anne Lamott -
When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.
-- Anne Michaels -
As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.
-- Anthony Burgess -
I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.
-- Anthony Shadid -
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
-- Anton Chekhov -
To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it stood for. To put anything into words was like pouring melted wax on top of cold glasses of jelly, to harden there and preserve and keep what was underneath like new.
-- Ardyth Kennelly -
Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.
-- Aretha Franklin -
Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel?
-- Armistead Maupin -
People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.
-- Art Buchwald -
Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset. All things were working together for his good! And so, troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your personal and eternal good.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
-- Asne Seierstad -
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.
-- Athenaeus -
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
-- Augustus Hare -
A secret talent or hobby Hmm I weirdly collect shot glasses.
-- Austin Mahone -
I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
-- Ava Gardner -
I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.
-- Ava Gardner -
Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.
-- Axel Munthe -
She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.
-- Ayn Rand -
In order to find out how to reveal our innermost Being, the sages explored the various sheaths of existence, starting from body and progressing through mind and intelligence, and ultimately to the soul. The yogic journey guides us from our periphery, the body, to the center ofour being, the soul. The aim is to integrate the variouslayers so that the inner divinity shines out as through clear glass.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
-- Ben Jonson -
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
-- Bette Davis -
Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.
-- Bill Cosby -
I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,†I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.
-- Bill Cosby -
I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.
-- Bill Gates -
Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass
-- Bill Self
