Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Westerfeld

I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.

Josiah Stamp

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

Jostein Gaarder

(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.

Ralph Cudworth

A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

Rainn Wilson

There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.

Rainbow Rowell

You're not the ugly one. Levi Grinned. You're just the Clark Kent... ... Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?

Rainbow Rowell

Take off your glasses." "Why? I thought you liked my glassess." "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.

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.

I like to look at the glass half full.

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).

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.

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.

Tim Walker

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

Richard Wright

We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

Peter Greenaway

I like a lot of glasses about -- it highers the tone.

Pink

Raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways.

Rachel Caine

It's a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look before pressing his thumb to a glass plate inside the room and opening the door.

Peter Zumthor

You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.

Peter McWilliams

I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.

Pete Doherty

Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?

Paulo Coelho

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

Peter Higgs

The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.

Robert Frost

In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.

Saul Bellow

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.

Richard Lugar

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

Tracy Kidder

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

Vincent Van Gogh

If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

Ursula Burns

I’m an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed,

Sophie Kinsella

I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. "it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me.

Sophie Kinsella

I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily "I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife!" And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.

Ville Valo

Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink