Glasses Quotes - Page 29

• I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

  James Joyce

  Time, Flames, Space

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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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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• Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles — made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances.
  'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'

  Edith Wharton

  Time, People, Broken

  "The Age of Innocence".

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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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• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.

  Charles Bowers

  Change, Ideas, People

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• Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Fine Words, Language

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• They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Hands, Class

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• And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Eye, Giving, Flying

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Flower, Broken

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.940

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• What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

  Stephen King

  Depression, Reality, Mental Illness

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

  Philip Roth

  Home, Army, Apples

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Stars, Science, Light

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of these. ... The overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one their parents belonged to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained-glass, the best music when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing compared to the matter of heredity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Science, Thinking

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• Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road at night I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The flames rising out of the flowing gasoline.

  Christopher Walken

  Artist, Night, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Duane". "Annie Hall", www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

  Stephen Fry

  Cutting, Fool, Accents

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• I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.

  Cory Monteith

  Fire, Ice, Broken

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't look my best when I wake up! But I do feel beautiful when I'm tired and happy and I've had a good laugh and a glass of champagne.

  Maya Rudolph

  Beautiful, Tired, Laughing

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• My glass of wine and I are besties.

  Mila Kunis

  Wine, Wine Glass

  "Mila Kunis: The Good Bad Girl". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 5, 2012.

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• No, I don’t wear contacts, and contrary to what some people have said, I do not have a glass eye.

  Jared Leto

  Eye, People, Said

  "Jared Leto liked working with Danes". E! Online Interview, chronicle.augusta.com. January 28, 1997.

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• I'm in a glass case of emotion

  Will Ferrell

  Emotion, Cases

  FaceBook post by Will Ferrell from Jan 19, 2012

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• Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.

  Simon Pegg

  Ideas, Long, Rabbits

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• It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.

  Don Cheadle

  Real, Past, Thinking

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