Glasses Quotes - Page 25

Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

I had started out with the intent to make a love story and something not so grave or so dark.So I went into this saying, "I want to do a love story, not to be seen with rose-colored glasses, but not as heavy." As it turned out, it surprised me the place where it led actually was something so painful. I identified so much with them that I experienced a lot of that suffering as well.

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.

You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.

Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.

[Referring to a glass of water:] I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody!

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.

When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, coloring and saturating it...then a glass will be filled and poured back into the mixture, blending it further. The comes waiting. Motionless waiting. Finally, from high up, like some green cataract whose sight and sound mesmerize, the tea will once again cascade into a glass. Now it can be drunk, dreamily, forehead bowed, fingers held wide away from the scalding glass.

You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.

[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

I'd like to start off this show by asking you all a question, cause I don't know the answer. Uh, I lost my sunglasses and yesterday I went to the Sunglass Hut. Here's the question: Why does a pair of sunglasses cost more than a 25-inch color television set? I go to the Sunglass Hut. I see a pair that I like. I don't love them. I don't. I like 'em. $309.