Glasses Quotes

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

Stained glass enabled the modern world.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain.

Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

Tear to a glass eye. Tear to a glass eye.

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass

He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand. Who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine?

When were we the most egalitarian country in the world? When we had the Glass/Steagal Act, which prevented the banks from becoming the criminal operations that they've become.

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.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.

You know what it's like," said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?

Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with one pulse.

Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

My nipples could cut glass.

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons.

Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.

As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.