Glasses Quotes

Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision.

The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.

The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

I'm in a glass case of emotion

But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

I like to look at the glass half full.

Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff

Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran? It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming. I don't see any other explanation.

The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

I think I might have a glass of champagne, if there is any in Nagpur, and just enjoy the moment.

He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.

And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.

Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.

I asked for a glass of Chardonnay. And in a 9/11-like twist, they didn't have any. They offered me Pinot.

The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.

When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.

Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

I enjoy raining on parades and throwing stones in glass homes.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!

I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.

With slide guitar, you're just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It's a really beautiful instrument in that it's so responsive, you're just slipping your hand back and forth.

I did Noise Music because I genuinely liked noise... But a lot of people didn't. At my concerts, people smashed beer glasses in my face.

The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.

Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.

Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole.

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

I love a glass of champagne. It can make even the most average Monday seem like a Saturday night. I always say there's happiness in every bubble!

I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

Boys don't really like big nerdy glasses. Not so much.

I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a "nerd." I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses.

I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.