Quotes about glasses
glasses house skins
You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around. Peter Zumthor
glasses optimism worry
I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over. Peter McWilliams
glasses broken glitter
Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it? Pete Doherty
glasses break please
Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of. Paulo Coelho
glasses light water
The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water. Peter Higgs
glasses broken enlightenment
Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass. Terry Pratchett
glasses matter break
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are. Tennessee Williams
glasses vanity competition
Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
glasses water delay
The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water. Teju Cole
glasses squirrels snow
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. Ralph Waldo Emerson
glasses what-matters mind
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
glasses flames feet
In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams Scott Lynch
glasses giving water
If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst. Shelley Berman
glasses vision framing
Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see. Peter Senge
glasses actors royal
Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid?an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and? It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from. Peter Carey
glasses should-have house
Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way. Rachel Cohn
glasses looks half
A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full. Josiah Stamp
glasses glimpse peers
(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves. Jostein Gaarder
glasses color consciousness
If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass." Thomas Merton
glasses fire clouds
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Thomas Carlyle
glasses ipads iphone
Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face. Tony Hsieh
glasses broken racing
Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful. Steve McQueen
glasses boxing insult
To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.
glasses house stuff
If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about. Karl Pilkington
glasses london pebbles
They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo.
glasses soup pumpkin
I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it. Karen Gillan
glasses doe seeing
Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it. Simone Weil
glasses ideas long
Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go. Simon Pegg
glasses half empty
If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass Richard Branson
glasses heaven soul
The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass. Swami Vivekananda
glasses leaving world
Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.
glasses people rays
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a lot and then I realised that a lot of the things I've started going for are a little bit more refined. I liked the fact that I was supporting a British brand, somebody I could have a relationship with and people that I could talk to. Tinie Tempah
glasses two rose
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision Rick Bayan