Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Alan Moore

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

Alan Bennett

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

David Sedaris

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film."

Catherine Tate

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

Cherie Lunghi

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

Charles Lamb

The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.

Charlaine Harris

Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled. I'd finally found something Eric did poorly.

Mark Cuban

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.

Madeleine Albright

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

Bob Lewis

Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

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.

Charles Lindbergh

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

Bernard Goldberg

I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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.

I just woke up because our house is made out of glass doors, and simply the glass started shaking really hard.

James Marsters

I love to work. When I was a kid, I would invite my friends over to play, then I would take them over to a recycling plant and we would haul glass all day. They hated me for this, but I thought it was fun.

I wanted to provide a place where people could come in, have a nice meal, and maybe have a glass of wine with their meal.

Eric Williams

They went to the glass hard, real hard, harder than we did.

They were talking trash. One guy told me to punch my hand into glass . . . I told him something after my dunk.

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.

J. D. Salinger

Did you see more glass?

Gina Torres

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

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.

Jay Wright

In our system we let him go to the offensive glass because he's so good.

Jim Haslett

I know it's the preseason and I should probably look at it as the glass is half-full, but I'm a coach, and I see the glass half-empty, ... We didn't play well tonight.

Reese Witherspoon

Hey, don't put that glass on the table without a coaster. Haven't I taught you better?

But his glass is always half-full, ... He just keeps plugging along.

Neil Gaiman

He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.

Martin Mull

I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.

Sebastian Thrun

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Todd Solondz

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.