Glasses Quotes - Page 25

• You're not the ugly one. Levi Grinned. You're just the Clark Kent... ... Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Ugly, Kent

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• No, I know,” Levi said. “But it’s not you. You don’t push through every moment. You pay attention. You take everything in. I like that about you—I like that better.” Cath closed her eyes and felt tears catch on her cheeks. “I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me.… Cather.” He kissed her mouth. “Look at me.” She did. “I choose you over everyone.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Snow, Tears

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.668, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Time, Past, Arrows

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• That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

  Thomas Heywood

  Time, Turns, Sandy

  c.1607 A Woman Killed with Kindness, sc.13.

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• Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Grief, Men

  'Atalanta in Calydon' (1865) chorus 'Before the beginning of years' st. 7

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• Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Church, Hours

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.171

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• A handful of red sand from the hot clime
  Of Arab deserts brought,
  Within this glass becomes the spy of Time,
  The minister of Thought.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Spy, Red

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.135

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• The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Inspirational, Flames, Needs

  Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Kitchen Privileges”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.

  Adolphus Busch

  Money, Humorous, Drinking

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• Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.

  George R. R. Martin

  Would Be, Faces, Twins

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.99, Bantam

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• I feel an extremely annoyed thunderstorm nearby," Kade warned. "Actually, I'm the one annoyed. The thunderstorm could go either way." - Storm Glass

  Maria V. Snyder

  Annoyed, Storm, Way

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• You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.

  Scott Lynch

  Crazy, Ten, Pints

  Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.291, Del Rey

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• In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass is delicate. The thin, tight surface of the liquid light trembles. But it does not break. Time does not pass. Not yet.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Evening Light, Water, Doe

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Lessons, Pairs

  "Alain de Botton: How Proust Can Change Your Life". bigthink.com. 2017.

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• -there was something in her, something that was...pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Mom, Fear, Fire

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• Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.

  Grant Morrison

  Dream, Thinking, Asylums

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• what shall we drink to?" "How about family?" Stacy said, showing up just in time to pour a fourth shot. "To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost." and she clicked glasses with mom

  Kristin Hannah

  Mom, Gone, Showing Up

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• I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.

  Catherine Sanderson

  Beach, Morning, Lying

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• (As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Glimpse, Peers, Sides

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• This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue.

  Walter Moers

  Summer, Dirty, Wine

  Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.104, The Overlook Press

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• They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo.

  Karl Pilkington

  London, Pebbles, Nemo

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.104, Canongate Books

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• Even though I'm surrounded by pupils, there is the invisible screen screen between us, and behind the glass wall I am screaming - screaming in my own silence, screaming to be noticed, to be befriended, to be liked.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Wall, Silence, Invisible

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne—bubbly and intoxicating—and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn’t want to seem like an easy mark. “If you must know, I’ve come to join a convent,” Evie said, testing him.

  Libba Bray

  Attention, Want, Easy

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• Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. “A pro, I see.” “What else is there to do in Ohio?

  Libba Bray

  Ohio, Eyebrows, Two

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• The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum.

  Libba Bray

  Men, Museums, Band

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