Quotes about glasses
glasses
Did you see more glass? J. D. Salinger
glasses doors eras
I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling. Gina Torres
glasses ourselves pair rather trying understanding
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?'
glasses water liquid
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. Janeane Garofalo
glasses water lips
Will speechless for once, a glass of water frozen halfway to his lips Cassandra Clare
glasses broken sometimes
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
glasses mirrors facts
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. Cassandra Clare
glasses fans half
A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill. Mike Royko
glasses age giants
I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal screw lid on it that's full of ribbons and memorabilia from conventions and stuff. I've got buttons and I have all of my Walt Disney Mickey Mouse credit cards. I'm wondering in my old age if anyone would pay for a credit card with Mickey Mouse on it issued to me. I wonder if anyone would pay anything for that?
glasses broken ethics
I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible. Julian Baggini
glasses understanding cold
I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human. Julian Assange
glasses water colour
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'. Idries Shah
glasses worry giants
He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world. J. K. Rowling
glasses listening becoming
Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it was becoming steadily dirtier. J. K. Rowling
glasses needs half
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 Grace Hopper
glasses milk broccoli
You can't hide broccoli in your glass of milk. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
glasses air half
The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid. Mark Millar
glasses rose dislike
Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses. Mark E. Smith
glasses black framed
Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on... Nicole Richie
glasses giving hypocrisy
I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass. Mark Twain
glasses alchemist pharaohs
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain Muhammad Iqbal
glasses ceilings glass-ceiling
I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to. Marian Wright Edelman
glasses lines tests
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. Jim Butcher
glasses house glass-houses
Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another. George Herbert
glasses alcohol drink
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. George Herbert
glasses people missing
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. Jay Mohr
glasses cab-drivers done
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. Jared Harris
glasses sitting should
Life shouldn't be about sitting around staring at frosted glass. Life should be lived and that's all there is to it. Oliver Reed
glasses doors impact
We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact. We are picking up chocolate chips for days. Jon throws a glass of milk, the milk, not the glass: he knows his own strength, as I do not. He throws a box of Cheerios, unopened. The things I throw miss, although they are worse things. The things he throws hit, but are harmless. I begin to see how the line is crossed, between histrionics and murder. Margaret Atwood
glasses understanding shadow
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God. Margaret Atwood
glasses design kitsch
I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass. Kevin McCloud
glasses trying ceilings
I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling. Kathryn Bigelow
glasses house looks
The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.] George Herbert