Eyeglasses Quotes - Page 2

• You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Notebook

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• Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

  James Lafferty

  Glasses, Historical, Mind

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• If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Would Be

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• Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Inspiration, Humor, Glasses

  Los Angeles Magazine, Volume 44, No. 11 (p. 169), November 1999.

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• She gave Pretty Boy a surreptitious glance. Did he honestly expect her to believe he was gay? True, there were the gay boots and those stunning good looks. But, even so, he blasted enough heterosexual mega-wattage to light up the entire female population. Which he’d undoubtedly been doing since he shot out of the birth canal, glimpsed his reflection in the obstetrician’s eyeglasses, and gave the world a high five.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Believe, Gay, Reflection

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2009). “Natural Born Charmer”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

  Jean Cocteau

  Glasses, Mirrors, Advice

  Quoted by Ned Rorem on "The Dick Cavett Show" at PBS, October 06, 1981.

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• By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Lenses, Computer, Disappear

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• Medicine allows people to live who would otherwise die, so antibiotics will let people survive infections that they might be otherwise very vulnerable to and even little things might make a big difference, so I wear eyeglasses because my eyes aren't particularly strong, before there were eyeglasses someone at my age would probably not be good for much.

  Carl Zimmer

  Strong, Eye, Medicine

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room.

  Danny DeVito

  Dark, Ice, Two

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• I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

  Jennifer Sky

  Glasses, People, Actors

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• Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Glasses, Air, Dust

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• I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.

  Mickey Spillane

  Hair, Guy, Tough

  "Spillane still on the case". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 8, 2004.

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• When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

  Anton Chekhov

  Ocean, Glasses, Two

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• I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.

  Iris Apfel

  Years, Fleas, Saws

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Reality, Woven, Electronics

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.143, Penguin

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• All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

  Heinrich Heine

  Knowing, Lenses, Philosopher

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• The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Glasses, House, Church

  ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN (1956). “THE SIGNIFIANCE OF THE CHURCH”

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• I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.

  Clay Aiken

  Jobs, Glasses, Hair

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• People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

  PJ Harvey

  Country, Glasses, People

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• Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

  George Herbert

  Glasses, Alcohol, Drink

  'The Church-porch', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

  Bernadette Peters

  Mother, Glasses, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Glasses, Drunk

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.372

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• Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that you have such an object available. If you focus on this, you'll be able to be lifted many many times each day. Some common examples include: a pen, fork, cup, key, computers, clock, chair, stapler, and eyeglasses.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Keys

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• Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Family, Important, Tables

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• Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

  Michael Chabon

  Girl, Dark, Forever

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.

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