692 Quotes About Glasses

  • Author Steve Martin
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    The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.

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  • Author Steve McQueen
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    Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.

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  • Author Suzanne Massie
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    Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It is impossible to climb it, but you must, and, somehow, you do. Then there is an explosion of brilliance and the world is more apparent in its complexity and beauty.

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  • Author Thomas Merton
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    If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

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  • Author Thomas Merton
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    The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.

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  • Author Anais Nin
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    The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.

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  • Author Enid Nemy
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    Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

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  • Author Pablo Neruda
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    Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.

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