Quotes about glasses
glasses views looks
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command. Mark Rothko
glasses water pouring
Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water. Mark Cuban
glasses giving whiskers
The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass. P. G. Wodehouse
glasses stories alive
If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70). Paul Neilan
glasses israel san-francisco
I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there. Molly Antopol
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 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 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
glasses answers looks
You can't find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you'll forget the questions. George Patterson
glasses deals rounds
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? Jerry Seinfeld
glasses dramatic advantage
The only advantage to wearing glasses is that you can do that dramatic removal. Jim Gaffigan
glasses magnifying-glass magnifying
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. George Eliot
glasses broken laughing
The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
glasses danger
A woman and a glasse are ever in danger. [A woman and a glass are ever in danger.] George Herbert
glasses all-things
All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass. Christina Rossetti
glasses ham looks
My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses. Chris Ware
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 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 air water
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. Jeanette Winterson
glasses people actors
I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people. Jennifer Sky
glasses fleas thread
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. Jennifer Weiner
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 half empty
This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated. Emily Giffin
glasses broken anything-goes
Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes. Ellsworth Kelly
glasses might photographer
I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me! Edward Weston
glasses may firsts
There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass. Napoleon Hill
glasses half-empty bother
Don't bother. The glass is half-empty. Norman Vincent Peale
glasses break thighs
Then I break a glass and I slit my very innermost thigh so that I can pretend that I'm menstru--- well, unavailable. Emilie Autumn
glasses world poor-eyesight
I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts. Ellen Hollman