Quotes of: Glass Keyword

I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.

Steven Hall

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.

Seth Shostak

[holding a glass jar containing his surgically removed heart] Paul Rivers: Ah. The culprit.

21 Grams

General Sternwood: How do you like your brandy, sir? Philip Marlowe: In a glass.

The Big Sleep

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

Adrienne Clarkson

The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

Alan Hansen

Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.

Anthony Jeselnik

I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.

Ana Monnar

You have it on your noise, but you still need a glass to see it... We need others to admit our faults.

Amen Muffler

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Alexander Pope

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth." [From: 19 Lessons On Tea]

Alexander Pushkin

You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…

Brandi L. Bates

... civilization—a word that simply means "living in cities..." Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. “A History of the World In 6 Glasses.

Tom Standage

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.

Love

Start looking at the glass as half full and not half empty, a positive life is secondary to you being positive.

Unarine Ramaru

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

Philip Warren Anderson

Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case, a parting of the ways. Whoever realises this will do cleaner work one way or the other. Technical perfection strives...

The Glass Bees

After a long while he sat upright with great effort, exhaled a sigh and reached for a clean sheet of lined paper, smoothing it out on the desk. He unscrewed the lid of his fountain pen, laid it perpendicular to his paper, and began to write. Often he...

The Girl With Glass Feet

If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can...

The Glass Bead Game

She had talked of this at length with Kadambari—Mrs. Dutt: Why should it not be possible for these freedoms to be universally available for women everywhere? And Mrs. Dutt had said that of course, this was one of the great benefits of British rule ...

The Glass Palace