Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

Charles Spurgeon

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Alan Moore

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

Alan Bennett

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

Eddie Money

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

Rachel Caine

When she set Shane’s glass of Coke down in front of him, she did it with probably a little too much emphasis; he glanced up at her with a question-mark expression.[...] ‘‘What?’’ Shane asked her, and took a drink. ‘‘Did I forget to say thanks? Because, thanks. Best Coke ever. Did you make it yourself? Special recipe?

Bernard Goldberg

I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Cherie Lunghi

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

Charles Lamb

The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.

Charlaine Harris

Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled. I'd finally found something Eric did poorly.

Madeleine Albright

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film."

Catherine Tate

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Benjamin Franklin

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

We were hoping to have a shot at winning our own tournament but we knew Glass was going to be strong. I am very proud of them.

Charles Lindbergh

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

Anthony Johnson

A lot of people look at the glass as half empty. It's half full. We're playing with great intensity. We've just got to keep it going.

They go to that offensive glass every time.

It's one of those shots I'll never forget. Nobody tries to go glass outside the 3-point line.

David Sedaris

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'

O Strangers! By Anacreon's tomb who pass, Shed o'er it wine, in life he lov'd his glass

A president's second term is like an hour glass with the sand running out.

I wanted to jump over the glass but I couldn't so I just stayed composed. It was a good feeling.

Guy Clark

I see you're wearing glasses. I never saw you play with glasses before.

Ed Parker

I see the resemblance in the hair and the glasses and the smile.

Laura Miller

You've got to take off some of the old ugly facades and let there be glass and light. If you take the skin off and restore it, it's beautiful.

Aretha Franklin

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

Art Buchwald

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

Brendan Fraser

In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass.

James Whistler

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

Carl Sandburg

To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

Alain de Botton

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.