Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy Morgan

Even when I'm sitting up in this glass castle, I still got my street soldiers telling me what's happening.

Boris Yeltsin

The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.

Brad Thor

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?

Denis Healey

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

Bruce Bartlett

The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

Edwidge Danticat

When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

Bruce Boxleitner

If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.

We're about half way there, the glass is half full. We're 13 percent of the population, and we're about 6.5 percent of the businesses.

Dave Gahan

When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.

Elbert Hubbard

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Dick Vitale

Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.

Every silver lining has a cloud. All the glasses that seemed half-full 12 months ago look half-empty now.

I like to look at the glass half full.

We shot well and we did a great job defensively. We did a really good job of keeping their big kids off the glass and then getting out in transition.

Stephen Jay Gould

Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).

Tim Walker

We hit shots, and we hit the offensive glass really well. That was the whole key to the game.

We just want the kind of house where people can come over, get comfortable, have a glass of wine and look at the view. The kind of house where people never want to leave, where they want to stay forever.

Donald Glover

I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

Dan Johnson

Remember: People who live in glass houses can see you masturbating in their bushes.

Cory Monteith

I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy

Courteney Cox

I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.

E. B. White

The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

Allen Tate

For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.

Douglas Adams

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water!

Dorothy Day

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

Anthony de Mello

My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.

Angela Ruggiero

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

Anne Rice

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

Anne Rice

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

Davy Jones

I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.

Dan Brown

If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.

Confucius

A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.

Andre Maurois

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.