Quotes about glass
glasses names squares
If you want a good handbag and glasses, it's hard to get something without the brand name on it because it's so important to have the charmed inscription. The only way you do it... This handbag was the only one in the shop without a charmed inscription. It's just an ordinary bag. I went into the department store in Sloane Square, because I needed a new bag, because my old one lost its handles. Then I found this one, and I said "Why is it so cheap?" and the seller said, "Because it doesn't have a name!" Marina Warner
glasses wigs noses
I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear. Phil Hartman
glasses people looks
People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed. Lee Child
glasses house saving
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating. Philip Johnson
glasses cities long
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. Towns and cities, too, which always retain the ghost of their earlier incarnations beneath today's concrete and glass. Penelope Lively
glasses florida people
I find that it's easier to disguise yourself when you go to Florida or places like that, because no one is expecting to see a celebrity there. When you throw on a hat and glasses, no one really looks at you twice - because why would you be in Florida? People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood. Megan Fox
glasses sweat ballet
Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as well as behind-the-scenes hanky panky . . . Similar to classic ballet, the power of Astonish Me arises out of the pairing of a melodramatic storyline with scrupulously executed range of movement . . . Shipstead sweeps you into this insider world of sweat, narcissism, and short-lived magic . . . Transcendent. Maureen Corrigan
glasses people noses
We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass. Maureen Dowd
glasses lambs lions
I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships. Maureen Johnson
glasses years validation
You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason. Matthew Lillard
glasses negative looks
I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!! Maya Angelou
glasses feelings may
...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way. Mattie Stepanek
glasses looks each-day
Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.
glasses steel skyscraper
A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel. Mason Cooley
glasses cities imagining-the-future
As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much. Michael Arad
glasses views looks
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command. Mark Rothko
glasses water pouring
Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water. Mark Cuban
glasses evil annoyed
Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium, exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: "I love it, but I owe it a grudge." Marie Curie
glasses steel use
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel. Marge Piercy
glasses glitter fantasy
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove. Terry Pratchett
glasses cages chaos
Like chaos in a glass cage. Melissa Marr
glasses broken naked
Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.
glass met together valentine work worked
I met my wife, Patti, when I went to work for her installing stained glass windows. We worked so well together that we started fraternizing in the work place. That was 15 years ago and she's still my valentine to this day.
glasses people backyards
How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way. Lisa Marie Presley
glasses water pennies
Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost. John Selden
glasses weather people
A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together. John O'Keefe
glasses wipe knows
Wipe your glasses with what you know. James Joyce
glasses attention want
She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne—bubbly and intoxicating—and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn’t want to seem like an easy mark. “If you must know, I’ve come to join a convent,” Evie said, testing him. Libba Bray
glasses years office
some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year. Helen Gurley Brown
glasses water people
Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head. Hedy Lamarr
glasses light pieces
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry. Man Ray
glasses air errors
Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their nightmare fancies are hopelessly out of date. A vast, air-conditioned, neon-lighted, glass-and-chromium broiler-house begins to take shape, in which geneticists select the best stocks to fertilise, and watch over the developing embryo to ensure that all possibilities of error and distortion are eliminated. Malcolm Muggeridge
glasses knives broken
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added. Jackson Pollock