Top Glasses Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Glasses quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Justina Chen
[True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.
- Justina Chen
Collection: Glasses
Image of Sargent Shriver
Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.
- Sargent Shriver
Collection: Glasses
Image of Alexander Pushkin
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
- Alexander Pushkin
Collection: Glasses
Image of Daniel Radcliffe
I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror
- Daniel Radcliffe
Collection: Glasses
Image of Jeanette Winterson
Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.
- Jeanette Winterson
Collection: Glasses
Image of T. Boone Pickens
If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.
- T. Boone Pickens
Collection: Glasses
Image of 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.
- Boris Yeltsin
Collection: Glasses
Image of Margaret George
Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.
- Margaret George
Collection: Glasses
Image of Paul Neilan
If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70).
- Paul Neilan
Collection: Glasses
Image of Nora Roberts
Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
- Nora Roberts
Collection: Glasses
Image of Nathanael Emmons
Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.
- Nathanael Emmons
Collection: Glasses
Image of Edward Thomas
I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.
- Edward Thomas
Collection: Glasses
Image of Mike Royko
A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.
- Mike Royko
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Image of Saul Bellow
Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.
- Saul Bellow
Collection: Glasses
Image of Koren Zailckas
But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut that makes me want to yell until my face is red, knock over glasses with the back of my hand, and kick people I don’t know in the shins.
- Koren Zailckas
Collection: Glasses
Image of Marge Piercy
We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.
- Marge Piercy
Collection: Glasses
Image of Kenneth R. Miller
The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.
- Kenneth R. Miller
Collection: Glasses
Image of Maureen Corrigan
Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as well as behind-the-scenes hanky panky . . . Similar to classic ballet, the power of Astonish Me arises out of the pairing of a melodramatic storyline with scrupulously executed range of movement . . . Shipstead sweeps you into this insider world of sweat, narcissism, and short-lived magic . . . Transcendent.
- Maureen Corrigan
Collection: Glasses
Image of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Collection: Glasses
Image of Simon Pegg
Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.
- Simon Pegg
Collection: Glasses
Image of Mark Rothko
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command.
- Mark Rothko
Collection: Glasses
Image of Annie Besant
Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light
- Annie Besant
Collection: Glasses
Image of Cornell Woolrich
I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.
- Cornell Woolrich
Collection: Glasses
Image of Richard Kadrey
Don't drink too much." "When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop." "I'll have to get a shorter name." "I'll have to forget how to spell it.
- Richard Kadrey
Collection: Glasses
Image of Pete Doherty
Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?
- Pete Doherty
Collection: Glasses
Image of Martin Mull
I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.
- Martin Mull
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Image of Ville Valo
Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink
- Ville Valo
Collection: Glasses
Image of Carl Sandburg
To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
- Carl Sandburg
Collection: Glasses
Image of Maria V. Snyder
Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential. You have a number of uncertainties in your melt right now. But they will always be there in one form or another. Always. Unlike molten glass, life can't be fixed or frozen into a pretty vase and placed on a shelf to gather dust.
- Maria V. Snyder
Collection: Glasses
Image of Pink
Raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways.
- Pink
Collection: Glasses
Image of Shawn Achor
The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.
- Shawn Achor
Collection: Glasses
Image of Rainbow Rowell
You're not the ugly one. Levi Grinned. You're just the Clark Kent... ... Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?
- Rainbow Rowell
Collection: Glasses
Image of Mark Millar
The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.
- Mark Millar
Collection: Glasses
Image of Oscar Wilde
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Jon Stewart
Some people look at a glass and see it as half-full. Others look at a glass and call it a dragon.
- Jon Stewart
Collection: Glasses
Image of Kylie Minogue
I certainly wished I hadn't stressed quite as much or had such insecurity at times. I wish I had trusted my instincts on some occasions when I didn't and I wish I had listened to better advice when I didn't. But overall, I have to look at the glass as half full and acknowledge that I am all of the moments of my life, the good and the not so good.
- Kylie Minogue
Collection: Glasses
Image of Marie Howe
But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you.
- Marie Howe
Collection: Glasses
Image of Alfred de Musset
The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
- Alfred de Musset
Collection: Glasses
Image of Sherwood Smith
They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass." He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.
- Sherwood Smith
Collection: Glasses
Image of Andrea Gibson
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror
 on a day you’re feeling good. 
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror
 on a day you’re feeling bad.
 I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty
 could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.
- Andrea Gibson
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Image of Rob Sheffield
One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.
- Rob Sheffield
Collection: Glasses
Image of Caprice Crane
If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.
- Caprice Crane
Collection: Glasses
Image of Susan Powter
The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.
- Susan Powter
Collection: Glasses
Image of Mick Foley
Look! I can't even wear glasses because my ear is missing. I'm hardcore! I'm hardcore!
- Mick Foley
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Image of Nicole Richie
Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on.
- Nicole Richie
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Image of Jo Walton
Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.
- Jo Walton
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Image of Joanne Fluke
She was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and room to pour in more.
- Joanne Fluke
Collection: Glasses
Image of James Whistler
Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.
- James Whistler
Collection: Glasses
Image of Andrew Klavan
You know what it's like," said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?
- Andrew Klavan
Collection: Glasses
Image of Jenny Downham
Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.
- Jenny Downham
Collection: Glasses