Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

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.

Jerry Seinfeld

What's the deal with Ovaltine? It comes in a round container, you put it in a round glass, why don't they call it Roundtine?

Jim Gaffigan

The only advantage to wearing glasses is that you can do that dramatic removal.

Jeanette Winterson

In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slowed down at different rates. If Tolstoy had known this, would he have recognised the terrible untruth at the beginning of Anna Karenina? 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own particular way.' In fact it's the other way around. Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalisation. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Jennifer Sky

I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

Jennifer Weiner

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

Elon Musk

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

Elon Musk

Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time

Hillary Clinton

Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

Hillary Clinton

Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it has 18 million cracks in it, and the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time, and we are going to keep working to make it so, today keep with me and stand for me, we still have so much to do together, we made history, and lets make some more.

Hillary Clinton

I would say that folks who have looked at this issue for a long time, whether it's Elizabeth Warren or many other economists, will tell you that right now, yes, we do need a 21st century Glass-Steagall legislation.

Evgeny Morozov

You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.

Eva Longoria

I banned bottled water from my house - we have a water-filter system so you can drink from the tap. We always drink out of glass, and recycling is a huge deal, which everybody can partake in.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.

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.

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.

George Eliot

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

George Herbert

A woman and a glasse are ever in danger. [A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]

Christina Rossetti

All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.

Chris Ware

My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses.

George W. Bush

Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.

George R. R. Martin

Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.

Jean Cocteau

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

George Carlin

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

Gene Simmons

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

Fernando Pessoa

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

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.

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