Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Joyce Oates

Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

Sendhil Ramamurthy

My mother is teaching me Indian recipes. I'll go to the market, get everything fresh, have a glass of red wine, and just do it. I find it really therapeutic.

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.

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.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

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

William Temple

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

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.

Alfred de Musset

The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.

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!

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.

Adam Ant

I'm blind without my glasses.

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.

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.

Dorothy Day

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

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.