692 Quotes About Glasses
- Author Henry David Thoreau
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I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.
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- Author J. R. R. Tolkien
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He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.
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- Author John Tenniel
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It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. ... I have done nothing in that direction since.
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- Author Paul Theroux
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Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.
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- Author Pete Townshend
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What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.
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- Author Rabindranath Tagore
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Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
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- Author Sebastian Thrun
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The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains
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- Author Sojourner Truth
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I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside.
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- Author Tomas Tranströmer
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A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.
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