Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aretha Franklin

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

Art Buchwald

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

We're about half way there, the glass is half full. We're 13 percent of the population, and we're about 6.5 percent of the businesses.

Dave Gahan

When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.

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.

Some people say, 'Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don't you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?' But that's not me.

Alexander Pushkin

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Allen Tate

For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.

Catherine Tate

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

Adam Ant

I'm blind without my glasses.

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

Janet Frame

[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brad Thor

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?

Bruce Bartlett

The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

Edwidge Danticat

When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

Anne Lamott

I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.

Albert Camus

There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.

Annie Besant

Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light

Douglas Adams

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water!

Donald Glover

I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

Dan Johnson

Remember: People who live in glass houses can see you masturbating in their bushes.

Cory Monteith

I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy

Courteney Cox

I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.

E. B. White

The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.