Glasses Quotes

• Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Old Age
  • Gloves
  • Vaseline

• He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Proud
  • Pride
  • Trumpets

• the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Fall
  • Water
  • Champagne

• A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • True
  • Soul
  • Light

• I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Jump
  • Glasses
  • Ice

• When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Travel

• OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.

  

  Karen Walker
  • Feet
  • Numbers
  • Glasses

• You really have to bring your game and know what you want to do. And then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want. You have to be malleable to what's going to work, and you have to stay in the framework of the context.

  

  Adrian Pasdar Band from TV
  • Games
  • Directors
  • Framework

• Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it was becoming steadily dirtier.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Listening
  • Glasses
  • Rags

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

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Country
  • Stories
  • Praise

• I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Effort
  • Feelings

• I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Hand
  • Moments
  • Hands

• My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • Technology
  • Vision
  • Firsts

• Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Christmas
  • Praying
  • Dear

• Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

  

  William Davenant
  • Perfect
  • Knows
  • Calamity

• We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • People
  • Fame
  • Admire

• Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Blood
  • Taste
  • Glasses

• And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Reflection
  • Wells
  • Memorable

• For now we see the beauty of God through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now we appreciate only in part, but then we shall affirm and appreciate God, even as the living God has affirmed and appreciated us. So now our tasks are worship, mission, and management, these three; but the greatest of these is worship.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Management
  • Appreciate

• Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Moon
  • Hands

• If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Storm
  • Loud
  • Drunkenness

• Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Reality
  • Bitter
  • Demon

• Hey bartender, hey man, look here. Give us one more, two more, three more glasses of beer.

  

  Koko Taylor
  • Man
  • Look
  • Glasses

• Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase.

  

  Fabio Novembre
  • Soul
  • Reality
  • Humanity

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