Quotes about glass
glasses broken enlightenment
Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass. Terry Pratchett
glasses matter break
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are. Tennessee Williams
glasses vanity competition
Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
glasses water delay
The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water. Teju Cole
glasses squirrels snow
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. Ralph Waldo Emerson
glasses what-matters mind
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
glasses flames feet
In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams Scott Lynch
glasses giving water
If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst. Shelley Berman
glasses house church
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. Robert McAfee Brown
glasses entering world
Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world. Walt Disney
glasses criminals earth
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
glasses trying lenses
I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens. Taylor Swift
glasses doe seeing
Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it. Simone Weil
glasses ideas long
Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go. Simon Pegg
glasses color consciousness
If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass." Thomas Merton
glasses fire clouds
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Thomas Carlyle
glasses ipads iphone
Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face. Tony Hsieh
glasses broken racing
Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful. Steve McQueen
glasses water important
The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook. Shawn Achor
glasses water life-is-like
It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent. Shakira
glasses half empty
If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass Richard Branson
glasses heaven soul
The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass. Swami Vivekananda
glasses leaving world
Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.
glasses people rays
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a lot and then I realised that a lot of the things I've started going for are a little bit more refined. I liked the fact that I was supporting a British brand, somebody I could have a relationship with and people that I could talk to. Tinie Tempah
glasses two rose
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision Rick Bayan
glasses half way
Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink Ville Valo
glasses cider ascent
In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated. Robert Frost
glasses bottles half
My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne. Suzanne Brockmann
glasses doors cake
You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door. Susanna Kaysen
glasses rainbow add
Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings. Suzanne Collins
glasses beverages pounds
I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.
glasses alcohol mind
As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.
glasses house littles
I've always wanted to put a little solarium on the back of my house. You know. Glass. Sylvia Browne