Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Lafferty

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

Heinrich Heine

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

Jean Cocteau

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Joseph Joubert

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Julian Sands

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.

Mary Matalin

He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.

Kitty Carlisle

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

Mickey Spillane

I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.

Ray Kurzweil

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

Charles Dickens

They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

Charles Spurgeon

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Alan Moore

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

Alan Bennett

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

David Sedaris

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film."

Catherine Tate

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

Mark Cuban

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.

Charles Lindbergh

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

Stephen Lang

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.