Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Mann

We've been negotiating this thing for 20 years so it was about time that we had an agreement. We're going to clink glasses on this.

C. S. Lewis

I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

Ron Paul

Without question, we're seeing a slowdown, ... They'll have one glass of wine instead of two, or they're skipping the appetizers.

Stephen Jay Gould

Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).

Billy Graham

You possess a non-renewable resource, which is headed toward total depletion and that resource is time. You can either invest your life or let it dribble through your fingers like sand in an hour glass. If there is ever a time to redeem every second, every minute it is now. You may never have tomorrow. You can't count your days, but with the Lord as your Savior you can make your days count.

Madeleine Albright

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

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.

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.

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.

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.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

We were hoping to have a shot at winning our own tournament but we knew Glass was going to be strong. I am very proud of them.

Hamilton Jordan

I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.

Jack Johnson

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

We have truly put the magnifying glass to everything we do as a company.

We were happy to score 64 points. R-B was hot from the outside in the first half and the probably doubled us on the offensive glass prior to halftime.

We shot well and we did a great job defensively. We did a really good job of keeping their big kids off the glass and then getting out in transition.

Jimmy Smits

If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

Edward Weston

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

Holly Black

Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it’s a good technique.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

Keith Waterhouse

Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?

Jonathan Swift

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

Napoleon Hill

There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

Malcolm Forbes

People who can’t see without glasses should wear them.

Gail Carriger

Goodness gracious me,” exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and some opera glasses. What on earth are they called, binocticals, spectaculars?” The earl snorted his amusement and then tried to pretend he hadn't. “How about glassicals?” he suggested, apparently unable to resist a contribution.

Norman Vincent Peale

Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.

Emilie Autumn

Then I break a glass and I slit my very innermost thigh so that I can pretend that I'm menstru--- well, unavailable.

Ellen Hollman

I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

Ellen DeGeneres

I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle

Emily Giffin

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

Ellsworth Kelly

Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.

Hiroyuki Sanada

When i've done camera test, after we've shot and I've seen the monitor with the glasses (wearing a Kimono) and looking by myself in 3D. Oh my god. Especially for a Samurai film. I've never seen that. It's kind of a culture shock.