Glasses Quotes - Page 38

• Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Broken, Bark

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• It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Reflection, Mirrors, Years

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• Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?

  Keith Olbermann

  Daughter, Apology, Political

  "Olbermann Compares Bush White House to Clinton's 'White House in Crisis'" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. October 21, 2005.

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• I'm an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed.

  Ursula Burns

  Littles, Break, Needed

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• Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

  Nick Flynn

  Lying, Church, Library

  Nick Flynn (2010). “Being Flynn (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions)”, p.201, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Wine, Differences, Profound

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• A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavours. The smells. They jump out at me. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Moving, Wine, Kids

  "Vintage year? Not till the Nose says so". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. Novemebr 19, 2000.

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• The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Dark, Light, Water

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.

  James Atlas

  Jobs, Envy, Phantoms

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• Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

  Arthur Erickson

  Meaningful, Space, Challenges

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• To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.

  Mary Alice Monroe

  Half, Dry, Sometimes

  Mary Alice Monroe (2017). “Girl in the Mirror”, p.135, MIRA

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• The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset at the people who threw rocks but now I'd rather spend my time building the stained glass windows.

  Jon Foreman

  Rocks, People, Upset

  "Jon Foreman: The Switchfoot man talks about 'Fall', 'Winter', 'Spring' and 'Summer'". Interview with Mike Rimmer, Tony Cummings, www.crossrhythms.co.uk. July 2, 2008.

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• The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

  James Joyce

  Fall, Scotch, Light

  "Best-loved Joyce".

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• The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

  Jackie Gleason

  Song, Scotch

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• The worst scream I have ever heard, by far, is a mother cow on a dairy farm screaming her lungs out day, after day, after day for her stolen baby to be given back to her. And why do they steal babies from their moms? Well, the dairy industry can't have little babies sucking up all that milk that was meant for them. Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

  Sarah Kay

  Daughter, Motivation, Inspiration

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, People, Praying

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round and sharp my eyes have grown how my carcass looks like a glass urn, how I hold up things in the rags of my hands, the way I can stand through crippled by lust. No, there's just your cruelty circling my head like a bright rotting halo.

  Nina Cassian

  Broken Heart, Eye, Dark

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• Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home this hard. Reading of Eddie Perlmutter's exploits is like rolling in an aisle paved with broken glass and wanting to do it all over again two minutes later.

  Loren D. Estleman

  Reading, Home, Two

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• Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.

  Andrea Camilleri

  Reading, Fighting, Age

  Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Track of Sand”, p.35, Penguin

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• It's like pouring oil from one glass to another down a line - in the end, you don't have any oil left; it is all stuck to the inside of the glasses. This way, 1,000 dollars become 100 dollars by the time it reaches the people. Whereas if we get 10 dollars, we add our effort to it and the money multiplies.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Oil, People, Effort

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• Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.

  Shawn Achor

  Successful, Opportunity, Ideas

  Shawn Achor (2011). “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work”, p.104, Random House

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• I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them.

  Frank Laubach

  People, Looks, His Love

  Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

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• I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty worship, worship of Creator Beauty Himself. God is present in all moments, but I do not deify the wind in the pines, the snow falling on the hemlocks, the moon over harvested wheat. Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things . Nature is not God but God revealing the weight of Himself, all His glory, through the looking glass of nature.

  Ann Voskamp

  Fall, Moon, Wind

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• Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered.
  It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

  Robert Goolrick

  Goodbye, Sweet, Drama

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