Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

Muhammad Iqbal

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

Marian Wright Edelman

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

Jim Butcher

Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost.

George Herbert

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

George Herbert

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

Jay Mohr

I miss third grade because you could kill people in dodgeball. Remember the rules to dodgeball? If you're fat or have glasses, don't show up because you'll die.

Jared Harris

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

Janeane Garofalo

He said that faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass is small, and it's easy to fill up. But the older you get, the bigger the glass gets, and the same amount of liquid doesn't fill it anymore. Periodically, the glass has to be refilled.

Joseph Stalin

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

Park Chan-wook

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

Jodi Picoult

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

Jodi Picoult

Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.

Ozzy Osbourne

I didn't really like the taste of booze. I liked the effect it did on me. But I can't say I savored a glass full of Chablis Chablis 1932. I drank whatever s - - was in front of me and got me buzzed.

P. G. Wodehouse

The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.

Paul Neilan

If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70).

Mitt Romney

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

Publilius Syrus

Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.

Publilius Syrus

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Prabal Gurung

I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But Im a glass half-full kind of guy.

Rachel Maddow

I like big drinks that aren't afraid of the alcohol in them. Not big in size, but in flavor, and the way I can allow myself to enjoy them is by making them in very small quantities. I make tiny glasses of very big drinks.

Rachel Maddow

You may never have heard of Joseph Overton and his proverbial window but you most certainly have heard the Republican presidential campaign in 2015 year not just flinging the window open but shattering all its glass.

I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.

Idries Shah

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Oliver Reed

Life shouldn't be about sitting around staring at frosted glass. Life should be lived and that's all there is to it.

Margaret Atwood

We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact. We are picking up chocolate chips for days. Jon throws a glass of milk, the milk, not the glass: he knows his own strength, as I do not. He throws a box of Cheerios, unopened. The things I throw miss, although they are worse things. The things he throws hit, but are harmless. I begin to see how the line is crossed, between histrionics and murder.

Margaret Atwood

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

Kevin McCloud

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

Jenny Eclair

I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

Fred Savage

I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself.

Lauren Oliver

This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.

P. J. O'Rourke

Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.