Glasses Quotes - Page 10

• He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Waiting, Looks, Noses

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.344, Scholastic Inc.

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• There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.

  A. S. Byatt

  Book, Ideas, People

  A S Byatt (2009). “The Children's Book”, p.119, Random House

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• It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sweet, Butterfly, Light

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty.

  John Green

  Eight, Water, Experts

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.37, Penguin

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• That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Hands, Liquid

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.

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• I drink blood, you eat tacos, get the f*ck over it!" -Michel Glass

  Rachel Caine

  Blood, Tacos, Drink

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• Like chaos in a glass cage.

  Melissa Marr

  Cages, Chaos

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• We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Animal, Land

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.

  Alexandra Potter

  Heart, Sound, Sopranos

  Alexandra Potter (2004). “Calling Romeo”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

  Russell Brand

  Weed, Silly, Wine

  Russell Brand (2009). “My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sweet, Ocean, Hands

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• I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

  Ava Gardner

  Hands, Years, Wish

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• In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Father, Piano, Water

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.67, A&C Black

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• He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

  John Fowles

  Wall, Thinking, Iron

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.

  Lydia Davis

  Dream, Distance, Different

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• So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words. They danced through the room, painting stained glass pictures, tickling the skin. Even when Meggie nodded off she could still hear them, although Mo had closed the book long ago. Words that explained the world to her, its dark side and its light side, words that built a wall to keep out bad dreams. And not a single bad dream came over that wall for the rest of the night.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dream, Wall, Book

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• [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

  Blue, Opposites, Space

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• Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

  Charles Kingsley

  Friendship, Best Friend, Broken

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• There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wall, Air, Two

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Wedding, Moon

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fall, Dark, Night

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• The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished before. What we've done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Fall, Thinking, Done With You

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• Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

  Sarah Kane

  Here I Am, Dancing, Choices

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.230, A&C Black

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• A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

  Anne Rice

  Singers, Way, Break

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1226, Ballantine Books

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• Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has personally affronted, your host will ask why you're not drinking. 'Oh, I just don't feel like it this morning.' 'Why not?' 'I guess I'm not in the mood?' 'Well, this'll put you in the mood. Here. Drink up.' 'No, really, I'm OK.' 'Just taste it.' 'Actually, I'm sort of...well, I sort of have a problem with it.' 'Then how about half a glass?

  David Sedaris

  Morning, Drinking, Voice

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