Quotes about glass

Anton Chekhov -

Don't tell me the moon is shining show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Philip Roth -

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.

Anthony T Hincks -

Beauty is seeing,the world through colored glass,of seeing everything in its glory,it's all it ever asks.

Matshona Dhliwayo -

Whether the glass is half empty or half full, you have the power to fill it up.

Kamand Kojouri -

Listen.Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall?Look.Do you sensethat you can’t see love?Touch.Do you graspthat you can’t catch poems?Try.Smell this glass. Go on taste this cloud.These material senses won’t get you far untilyou feelthe velvet glove caress your soul.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Life is like water in a glass. Drop by drop the glass empties.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.Is the glass part full or part empty?Take another sip.And now?

Jasleen Kaur Gumber -

Some say the glass is half full and blush,Some say it’s half empty and sink,I feel you are in the midst of,reaching out for another awesome drink!

Willi Way -

Trust is like a glass vase, beautiful except there is no way of putting it back together when it breaks.

Anonymous -

Trust is a delicate idea, held up by time and togetherness. But one person slips and the whole thing shatters. Like glass. and young girls' hearts.

Rebecca McNutt - or The Usurer

Terrell is weeping soundlessly, and despite the guard’s objection, he raises his hand up to the glass. Geraldine mimics him, lining her fingers up with his. It’s lonely to think that one little sheet of glass could create such a thick distance between them, but all the same, regardless of what he’s done, he’s still one of the closest friends she has.

Kamand Kojouri -

My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name and the sky hasn’t stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing.

Richard Siken -

Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.

Sanhita Baruah -

My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.

Dominic Riccitello -

You can’t patch cracks on a glass house.

Erik Pevernagie -

The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the matchless and the exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, but nobody can touch them. ( “Keeping up with the Joneses” )

J.D. Stroube - Caged in Spirit

In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as my salvation, but now represented my obliteration.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Craig Froman - An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness

I am a waning birdencased in a glass sphere;I cannot see my prison,and my cries no one can hear.

Constance Friday -

A glass of water with peace is better than several glasses of wine with trouble. Here's a glass of water . . . Cheers to the good life

Anthony T. Hincks -

When you live in a glass house,buying curtains for the windows doesn't help.

Anthony Liccione -

Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun.

J.D. Salinger - Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

Frank Beddor - Seeing Redd

Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.

Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

Сè противречи едно на друго, сè протрчува едно крај друго, никаде нема сигурност. Сè може да се толкува вака, и сè може да се толкува обратно. Сета човечка историја може да се протолкува како развој и напредок, а истовремено без да се види нешто повеќе од пропаст и глупост. Зар нема вистина? Зар не постои вистинска и валидна наука?

Anne Carson -

LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.

Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game

Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,” Joseph exclaimed. “If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn’t there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?”The master h

Debasish Mridha -

Be transparent like glass, be flexible like water, and be attractive like a magnet.

Frank Beddor - Seeing Redd

For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man."To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service."Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!

Munia Khan - Beyond The Vernal Mind

I forgot to supannoyancefrom his glass full ofmingled dread and rageNow let me takea small draught of solacefrom my own little cupfull of predicaments!From the poem- Draught

Rebecca McNutt - Bittersweet Symphony

On Wall Street, Clarence was a diamond in a sea of glass, never greedy, never an ambulance-chaser, never the kind of person who deserved to die in the way that he did.

Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie

When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

Peter Carey -

Fireworks made of glass. An explosion of dew. Crescendo. Diminuendo. Silence.There are drugs that work the same, and while I am not suggesting that our founder purchased the glassworks to get more drops, it is clear that she had the seed planted, not once, but twice, and knew already the lovely contradictory nature of glass and she did not have to be told, on the day she saw the works at Darling Harbour, that glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid, that an old

Anthony Liccione -

My love, my love, is a flame in the dark covered in glass. So glowingly beautiful to others on the outside, while slowly suffocating inside.

David Lee Roth -

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

Richard Lugar -

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

Nancy Gibbs -

Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

Rodney Dangerfield -

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Anouska Hempel -

It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.

Kevin McCloud -

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

Virginia Postrel -

We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your establishment can't come up with an original look, customers expect at least some sleek wood fixtures, nicely upholstered chairs, and faux-Murano glass pendant lights.

Douglas William Jerrold -

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Tony DiTerlizzi -

Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.

George Bernard Shaw -

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.

Augustus Hare -

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Jenny Lewis -

You can find me at three in the morning in my living room with a glass of wine and really bad '90s trip hop beats blaring from my headphones.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten -

In the morning, we sliced all the vegetables and layered everything up in a pot with a glass of Riesling. On the way to church, we dropped it off with the baker, who sealed the lid with a strip of dough and put it in his oven for a couple of hours. We picked it up at 12 o'clock and took it home to eat with mustard and salad.

Lesley Manville -

With learning lines, before I had Alfie, I'd put it off and think, 'Oh, I'll just have a glass of wine and then do it later,' but when you've finally got a child to bed and you know you've only got an hour, then you achieve so much.

Vijender Singh -

I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

Daniel Clowes -

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

Andrew Cuomo -

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

Alexandra Fuller -

There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!

Rosie Perez -

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

Philip Johnson -

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

Publilius Syrus -

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

Edgar Fiedler -

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

Owen Feltham -

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Jean Cocteau -

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Michelle Bachelet -

Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

Dean Koontz - Saint Odd

...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

Munia Khan -

Wish I could be a fragile piece of glass to accept my brokenness.

James S.A. Corey - Caliban's War

Io, this is Admiral Muhan of the Martian Congressional Republic Navy. You fire anything bigger than a bottle rocket and we will glass the whole fucking moon. Do you read me?

Bruce Crown - Forlorn Passions

Bourbon, Kentucky bourbon especially, is like Dante’s Inferno in a glass, fire walks down your throat, lungs, and heart and everything in between with an unpleasant after-taste. We got along just fine.

Thompson Square -

We may shine, we may shatter,We may be picking up the pieces here on after,We are fragile, we are human,And we are shaped by the light we let through us,We break fast, cause we are glass.We are glass.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.

Kevin Jared Hosein - Together We Are Spiders

Your glass seems like it will always be half full even it falls down and shatters to pieces

Kamand Kojouri -

These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!

Anthony T Hincks -

If ever you want a rainbow in your home, go to Sandwich Glass Museum, and let them put one in your heart too.

Rebecca McNutt - or The Usurer

She is shocked by the rows of thick Plexiglas windows, each equipped with a telephone, each with a prisoner on one side and an outsider on the other. There is a teenage girl chatting with a prisoner who is presumably her father. There’s a married couple talking to their daughter. There’s a woman with a baby in her arms, sobbing into her phone as she begs her husband not to plead guilty for his crimes. Jail is terrifying to Geraldine, not only because it’s a house of criminals but also because it

Steven Magee - Light Forensics

It is proven that the glass in your environment may be able to affect your health.

Addison Killebrew -

When you look through a window you gasp at the beautiful tree in the backyard or the magical sunrise coming over the horizon, No one looks at a window and is taken away by the complexity of the transparency of millions of atoms joined together to form, from our perception of a crystal clear yet structural opening to the exterior, the same is with life, if you spend your whole life being a medium to enable others then you will be nothing but a sheet of glass, overused, underappreciated, and fragi

Cassandra Clare - City of Fallen Angels

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. She understood why people talked about hearts "breaking"; she felt as if hers were made of cracked glass, and the shards were like tiny knives inside her chest when she breathed.

Rebecca McNutt - Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog City Novel

Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.

Charles de Leusse -

A glass of happiness fills whole body. (Un verre de bonheur - Remplit tout le corps)

Caroline B. Cooney - Evil Returns

It was darker in the tower than any place Devnee had ever been. The dark had textures, some velvet, some satin. The dark shifted positions.The dark continued to breathe. The breath of the tower lifted her clothing like the flaps of a tent, and sounded in her ears like falling snow.It's the wind coming through the double shutters, Devnee told herself.But how could the wind come through? There were glass windows between the inside and outside shutters.Or were there?The windows weren't just holes i

Anthony T Hincks -

When you kiss me,your lips upon mine,your kisses taste so sweet,just like a glass of good wine.

Charmaine J. Forde -

Broken GlassI watched herBeardlessWith little ego,FightingOn top ofThe ceiling,Like CinderellaIn high heelsLooking forHer glass slippersNo ties required!!

Amruta Patil - Kari

On my bedside table is a snow globe with a winterscape inside. Church, park bench, girl standing shin-deep in snow. Tip the snow globe over and a blizzard of slow snow falls over church and bench and girl. What is it about snow globes that makes them fascinating and terrifying at once?My heart lurches at the thought of the snow-globe girl waiting endlessly, with only the hope of a new snow blizzard to settle on her mantle when the next person tips her snow-globe world over. Not a gust of breeze

Martin Mull -

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat

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.

L. Frank Baum - The Magic of Oz

The Glass Cat is one of the most curious creatures in all Oz. It was made by a famous magician named Dr. Pipt before Ozma had forbidden her subjects to work magic. Dr. Pipt had made the Glass Cat to catch mice, but the Cat refused to catch mice and was considered more curious than useful.This astonishing cat was made all of glass and was so clear and transparent that you could see through it as easily as through a window. In the top of its head, however, was a mass of delicate pink balls which l