Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Millar

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

Publilius Syrus

Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.

Publilius Syrus

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Prabal Gurung

I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But Im a glass half-full kind of guy.

Park Chan-wook

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

P. J. O'Rourke

Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.

Kevin McCloud

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

Pink

Raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways.

Rachel Caine

It's a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look before pressing his thumb to a glass plate inside the room and opening the door.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

William Arthur Ward

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

John Hench

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

John F. Kerry

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

John Dyer

My optimism for life carried through my work.

Edward Teller

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

Jim Leach

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

William Sullivan

There's a lot of optimism that this stimulus is going to work.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Rob Halford

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

William Wordsworth

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Wesley Snipes

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

Hedi Slimane

I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.

Liev Schreiber

Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.