Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mickey Spillane

I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.

Joseph Joubert

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Kitty Carlisle

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

Mary Matalin

He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.

Julian Sands

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.

James Lafferty

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

Heinrich Heine

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

Ray Kurzweil

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

Jean Cocteau

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Jamie Wyeth

Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.

Joseph Barbera

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.

Luanne Rice

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.

Clive Cussler

It will be a thrilling moment, ... It's going to be a wonder.

Billy Mayfair

It was just a big thrill for me.

Evan Goldberg

The thrill of doing visual effects doesn't exist.

Marvin Hamlisch

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

Oprah Winfrey

The thrill is to keep envisioning what can be.

Josh Radnor

I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.