Glasses Quotes - Page 2

• When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

  Gene Simmons

  Air, Looks, Suits

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• It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Use, Literature, Faces

  "The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol, 1836.

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• We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

  Rebecca West

  Real, War, Comfort

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

  James Lafferty

  Art, Common, Finest

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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, Two, Literature

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• Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Cities, Antiques, Woods

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• If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

  Jimmy Smits

  Live Your Life, Industry, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

  Asne Seierstad

  War, Hands, Cucumbers

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• I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Blow, Taught, Torches

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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

  Air, Dust, Literature

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• The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Break Up, Fools Day, Wish

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• I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself.

  Fred Savage

  Water, Bed, Dresses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Sight, Understanding, Analysis

  Moses Mendelssohn, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (1997). “Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings”, p.258, Cambridge University Press

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• Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

  Grace Metalious

  Girlfriend, Sex, Talking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

  Jonathan Aitken

  Food, Hands, Cooking

  Jonathan Aitken (1971). “Land of Fortune: A Study of the New Australia”, London : Secker and Warburg

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• The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

  Clement Attlee

  House, Historical, Lord

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• Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.

  James Lafferty

  Reality, Heritage, Needed

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• Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

  Hedy Lamarr

  People, Water, Target

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

  Gene Tierney

  Writing, Disease, Bugs

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• Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

  Publilius Syrus

  Broken, Glitter, Fortune

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 280,

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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

  Mirrors, Advice, Looks

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

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• Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Gulliver

  'The Battle of the Books' (1704) preface

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• I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

  Sharon Tate

  Alaska, Rose, World

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• I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

  Sara Paretsky

  Life, Keys, Inspire

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• The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

  Ethel Waters

  Moving, Beer, Air

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