Famous Quotes & Sayings

Federico Garcia Lorca

My tongue is pierced with glass.

Fannie Flagg

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.

Jennifer Egan

I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.

Graham Greene

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

Benjamin Franklin

He that whines for Glass without G/ Take away L and that's he.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

Gary Larson

Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

Every silver lining has a cloud. All the glasses that seemed half-full 12 months ago look half-empty now.

I wanted to jump over the glass but I couldn't so I just stayed composed. It was a good feeling.

We just want the kind of house where people can come over, get comfortable, have a glass of wine and look at the view. The kind of house where people never want to leave, where they want to stay forever.

Guy Clark

I see you're wearing glasses. I never saw you play with glasses before.

Ed Parker

I see the resemblance in the hair and the glasses and the smile.

Tim Walker

We hit shots, and we hit the offensive glass really well. That was the whole key to the game.

Nolan Bushnell

Do I really want to do a mobile game that's one of 300,000, where discoverability is everything? You really have to have a little more sizzle on the steak. I would rather be one of 100 apps for Google Glass than one of 300,000 for iOS and Android.

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.

Jay Wright

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

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.

Cassandra Clare

Will speechless for once, a glass of water frozen halfway to his lips

Cassandra Clare

He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.

Cassandra Clare

The thing about the Mirror is that no one knows where it is. In fact, no one knows what it is.” "It’s a mirror,” Simon said. “You know – reflective, glass. I’m just assuming.

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.

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.

Mike Royko

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

Molly Antopol

I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.

Grace Hopper

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You can't hide broccoli in your glass of milk.