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.

William Temple

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

I got the shot off and just fell. I actually looked at the back of the glass to see if it went in.

Nolan Bushnell

Do I really want to do a mobile game that's one of 300,000, where discoverability is everything? You really have to have a little more sizzle on the steak. I would rather be one of 100 apps for Google Glass than one of 300,000 for iOS and Android.

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

I just woke up because our house is made out of glass doors, and simply the glass started shaking really hard.

I wanted to provide a place where people could come in, have a nice meal, and maybe have a glass of wine with their meal.

Eric Williams

They went to the glass hard, real hard, harder than we did.

They were talking trash. One guy told me to punch my hand into glass . . . I told him something after my dunk.

Michael Mann

We've been negotiating this thing for 20 years so it was about time that we had an agreement. We're going to clink glasses on this.

Clement Attlee

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.

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.

Dane Cook

Are there glass shards in my anus?

David Kaufman

Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"

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).

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

Cassandra Clare

Will speechless for once, a glass of water frozen halfway to his lips

Cassandra Clare

He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.

Cassandra Clare

The thing about the Mirror is that no one knows where it is. In fact, no one knows what it is.” "It’s a mirror,” Simon said. “You know – reflective, glass. I’m just assuming.

Mike Royko

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal screw lid on it that's full of ribbons and memorabilia from conventions and stuff. I've got buttons and I have all of my Walt Disney Mickey Mouse credit cards. I'm wondering in my old age if anyone would pay for a credit card with Mickey Mouse on it issued to me. I wonder if anyone would pay anything for that?

Mark Twain

I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

Muhammad Iqbal

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

Marian Wright Edelman

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

Idries Shah

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

J. K. Rowling

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

J. K. Rowling

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.

Grace Hopper

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You can't hide broccoli in your glass of milk.

Joseph Stalin

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.