692 Quotes About Glasses
- Author David Almond
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She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.
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- Author Douglas Adams
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What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water!
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- Author Eric Alterman
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The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease -- the kind that could be contracted merely by going to a foreign movie or ordering a decaf latte, or worse, a glass of French wine.
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- Author George Arnold
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The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.
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- Author Iris Apfel
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I've always been attracted to unusual eyewear. I thought glasses were an interesting accessory, depending on the shape of your face. People would always ask me, "Why are your frames so large?" And I would say, "The bigger to see you!" And that shut them up.
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- Author Jonathan Aitken
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Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.
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- Author Josef Albers
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And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
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- Author Joseph Addison
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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- Author Julian Assange
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I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.
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