Quotes and Sayings About Glasses
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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
