Quotes about glass
glasses sky white
There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with strips of white fat like an evening sky with bands of clouds. There would be some tea ready to be drunk, yellowish golden tea in glasses with silver saucers, giving off a faint fragrance. Rainer Maria Rilke
glasses alaska rose
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. Sharon Tate
glasses looks half
Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full. George W. Bush
glasses faces would-be
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. George R. R. Martin
glasses mirrors watches
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. Jean Cocteau
glasses optimism perspective
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. George Carlin
glasses air looks
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. Gene Simmons
glass harder
They went to the glass hard, real hard, harder than we did. Eric Williams
glass guy hand punch talking
They were talking trash. One guy told me to punch my hand into glass . . . I told him something after my dunk.
glasses doe culture
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something Hans Magnus Enzensberger
glasses self vanity
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind. Horace
glasses dramatic advantage
The only advantage to wearing glasses is that you can do that dramatic removal. Jim Gaffigan
glasses interesting people
I've always been attracted to unusual eyewear. I thought glasses were an interesting accessory, depending on the shape of your face. People would always ask me, "Why are your frames so large?" And I would say, "The bigger to see you!" And that shut them up. Iris Apfel
glasses differences imagination
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. Jennifer Egan
glasses meals aftermath
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. Jhumpa Lahiri
glasses alcohol understanding
There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief. Graham Greene
glass throw
If I had a glass eye, I'd always do that-pop it out and put it in my mouth. Throw it at people. Why not? Lizzy Caplan
glass table taught
Hey, don't put that glass on the table without a coaster. Haven't I taught you better? Reese Witherspoon
glasses matter life-is
Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it. Fernando Pessoa
glasses tongue
My tongue is pierced with glass. Federico Garcia Lorca
glasses expression looks
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. Fannie Flagg
glass good jump stayed
I wanted to jump over the glass but I couldn't so I just stayed composed. It was a good feeling.
glasses ham looks
My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses. Chris Ware
glasses house made
Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves. Joyce Carol Oates
glasses minutes chardonnay
Everyone can commit to 20 minutes, especially if there's a glass of Chardonnay afterwards. Kate Winslet
glasses milk staggering
Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass. Katherine Dunn
glasses knives broken
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added. Jackson Pollock
glasses light water
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. Peter Higgs
glasses matter break
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are. Tennessee Williams
glasses vanity competition
Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
glasses water delay
The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water. Teju Cole
glasses looks shapes
Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into. Michel de Montaigne
glasses break please
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. Paulo Coelho