Quotes about glasses
glasses bottles half
I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle Ellen DeGeneres
glasses bookstores village
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir? Keith Waterhouse
glasses light imagination
Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination. Jonathan Swift
glasses years office
some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year. Helen Gurley Brown
glasses water people
Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head. Hedy Lamarr
glasses light pieces
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry. Man Ray
glasses air errors
Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their nightmare fancies are hopelessly out of date. A vast, air-conditioned, neon-lighted, glass-and-chromium broiler-house begins to take shape, in which geneticists select the best stocks to fertilise, and watch over the developing embryo to ensure that all possibilities of error and distortion are eliminated. Malcolm Muggeridge
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
glasses people looks
Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me. Todd Solondz
glasses spiders window
You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web. Tobe Hooper
glasses lenses reason
Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced. Sloane Crosley
glasses woods break
Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go. Mercedes Lackey
glasses light space
A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral. Michael Shermer
glasses cards coins
I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards. Nolan Gould
glasses use literature
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. Nikolai Gogol
glasses office legends
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. Enid Nemy
glasses scratches records
A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it. Emo Philips
glasses perfect martini
A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy. Noel Coward
glasses light car
He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted. Neil Gaiman
glasses attention want
She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne—bubbly and intoxicating—and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn’t want to seem like an easy mark. “If you must know, I’ve come to join a convent,” Evie said, testing him. Libba Bray
glasses rocks people
The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset at the people who threw rocks but now I'd rather spend my time building the stained glass windows. Jon Foreman
glasses broken broken-glass
I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford. Jon Bon Jovi
glasses sweat ballet
Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as well as behind-the-scenes hanky panky . . . Similar to classic ballet, the power of Astonish Me arises out of the pairing of a melodramatic storyline with scrupulously executed range of movement . . . Shipstead sweeps you into this insider world of sweat, narcissism, and short-lived magic . . . Transcendent. Maureen Corrigan
glasses people noses
We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass. Maureen Dowd
glasses lambs lions
I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships. Maureen Johnson
glasses years validation
You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason. Matthew Lillard
glasses negative looks
I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!! Maya Angelou
glasses feelings may
...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way. Mattie Stepanek
glasses looks each-day
Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.
glasses names squares
If you want a good handbag and glasses, it's hard to get something without the brand name on it because it's so important to have the charmed inscription. The only way you do it... This handbag was the only one in the shop without a charmed inscription. It's just an ordinary bag. I went into the department store in Sloane Square, because I needed a new bag, because my old one lost its handles. Then I found this one, and I said "Why is it so cheap?" and the seller said, "Because it doesn't have a name!" Marina Warner
glasses wigs noses
I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear. Phil Hartman