Quotes about glasses
glasses broken naked
Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.
glasses people backyards
How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way. Lisa Marie Presley
glasses water pennies
Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost. John Selden
glasses weather people
A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together. John O'Keefe
glasses wipe knows
Wipe your glasses with what you know. James Joyce
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 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have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their nightmare fancies are hopelessly out of date.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 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 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 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 magic vision
Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?" Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do. Tamora Pierce
glasses water brain
During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure. Taisen Deshimaru
glasses axes world
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis. Stephen King
glasses break teapots
I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. "it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me. Sophie Kinsella
glasses self keys
I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily "I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife!" And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.
glasses half poison
I see the glass half full...but of poison. Woody Allen
glasses emotion cases
I'm in a glass case of emotion Will Ferrell
glasses water desire
If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will? ... Saint Francis de Sales
glasses kind forget
When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them. Robert Rodriguez
glasses your-boyfriend doe
One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman. Rob Sheffield
glasses kind results
When a photon comes down, it interacts with electrons throughout the glass, not just on the surface. The photon and electrons do some kind of dance, the net result of which is the same as if the photon hit only on the surface. Richard P. Feynman
glasses law land
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education. Richard Wright
glasses america russia
I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States. Richard Lugar
glasses want clear
I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass. Tracy Kidder
glasses years parent
Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter. Saul Bellow
glasses credit may
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired. Walter Scott
glasses photographer subjects
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject. W. Eugene Smith
glasses perfect calamity
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. William Davenant