Famous Quotes & Sayings

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

Robert Gottlieb

Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see 'The Glass Menagerie,' well into its year-long run. I had seen a number of shows on Broadway by then, but nothing like this - because there was nothing like this on Broadway.

Bill Vaughan

As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.

Kaley Cuoco

I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

Timothy McVeigh

He walked back and put his hands up to the glass (against my hands), ... He smiled ... and off he went.

He knows the magnifying glass is on him right now. We have to be very supportive of him right now. There is a lot of pressure on him. He needs to make those throws.

Kelly Rowland

We all come to the point where it's time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It's tough love but it's also being real with yourself. It's important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what's going on.

From what I understand, he is a good-sized 9-year-old - he's not a small child. He had already knocked the officer's glasses off, and hit and kicked him.

Just make sure they have a glass of wine first.

I think investors are looking through a glass darkly. Their outlook is relatively murky, so they are putting money under the mattress, so to speak.

I thought we really did a great job on the boards. We went after the glass hard and that made a difference.

Have a glass of wine, some pasta, sit a while and chat. Just let the guys know when you're ready to bottle, and they'll set you up.

Mike McCarthy

He said he needs to be 100% sure. He knows what he has to put in to play the way he plays. I'm an optimist. I think the glass is half full. It's about him and his family.

Caron Butler

He's been the sparkplug, hitting big shots when we need them. Like I told him, I hope that he makes the All-Star team. That would be big for him and for this organization. But if not, he's an All-Star in our minds. He's hitting the glass hard and making other guys better.

Jay Wright

He's good. We actually recruited him. We really liked him. ... You know what he's going to do. He's just going to pound you. He's going to go to the glass every time. He's going to be very physical. He's a good player. He might surprise some people, but he doesn't surprise us because we recruited him.

Mark Twain

He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly

Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.

I got the shot off and just fell. I actually looked at the back of the glass to see if it went in.

Al Gore

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.

Aimee Mullins

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.

Art Buchwald

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

Carl Sandburg

To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

Alain de Botton

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

One time she went through a window to go get me help. She got glass stuck in her head. But luckily she was OK.

Monster three. But, he also did a good job on the glass throughout the game. Once again, it's a situation where everyone has to step up and do what they do.

Eleanor Tomlinson

3D, the ever-changing 3D. It's great. It's been really interesting. My family came to the set a few times, and I see them with their 3D glasses on. It's lovely to have them there and be a part of it, and see the magic that we're playing with, because it really is incomprehensible until you see it on a 3D screen.

Dick Vitale

Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.

William Temple

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Most of the time when you go in a museum you know they're all in glass with high security and temperature controls, ... quite phenomenal, really extraordinary.

Bruce Boxleitner

If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.

Aretha Franklin

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

Denis Healey

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.