Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Larson

Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

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.

Every silver lining has a cloud. All the glasses that seemed half-full 12 months ago look half-empty now.

Jared Harris

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.

Janeane Garofalo

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.

Cassandra Clare

Will speechless for once, a glass of water frozen halfway to his lips

Cassandra Clare

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

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.

Mike Royko

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

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?

Fred Savage

I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself.

Jim Butcher

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.

George Herbert

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

George Herbert

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

Jay Mohr

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.

Molly Antopol

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.

Julian Baggini

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 Assange

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

Idries Shah

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

J. K. Rowling

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

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.