Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe E. Lewis

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

Eric Liu

After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.

John Hancock

There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

I like to look at the glass half full.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

Elbert Hubbard

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

Horace

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

Erwin W. Lutzer

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

Iris Apfel

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.

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.

George Patterson

You can't find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you'll forget the questions.

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.

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.

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.