Glasses Quotes - Page 7

I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"

Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge, incommodious and appallingly heavy bag with them, in pursuit of a tiny and fantastically expensive ball, in a fanatical attempt to direct it into a hole the size of a beer glass half a mile away. If anything could be better calculated to convince one of the essential lunacy of the human race, I haven't found it.

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.

The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink

Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.

The only advantage to wearing glasses is that you can do that dramatic removal.

My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.