Broken Glass Quotes - Page 2

• You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Flower, Boys, Light

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Wasteland”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.

  Ally Carter

  Letting Go, Pain, Moving

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• I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Glasses, Broken, Cindy

  "Jersey Devil". Interview With Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 9, 2006.

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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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• I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

  Angela Carter

  Father, Farewell, Glasses

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Sometimes it is like juggling with broken glass because both things are very sensitive and have to be handled with care. I can't let the career be neglected and I can't let my family and children be neglected either.

  Kelly Price

  Children, Glasses, Careers

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• And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Glasses, Broken

  "The Truth". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2000.

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• The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural maven like Falwell or Limbaugh who speaks to their manipulable pathos. The gulf between such individuals' education or intellectual competence or information and the actual issues of our times is simply too great. They were bred to be culture-media for false consciousness, junkies who crawl on their bellies across broken glass for another hit of "clarifying wisdom" from some ideological Pope.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Media, Issues

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• Elvis!" Min shoved herself off the couch to shoo him away. "Stay away from there. There's broken glass." "He did that on purpose," David said, outraged. "Yes, David, the cat is plotting against you." Min fished the base out of the water and glass shards and put it on the table. Then she went to get her wastebasket and began to put the glass pieces in it.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Cat, Glasses, Broken

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.251, Macmillan

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• Rahul Dravid is a player who would walk on broken glass if his team asks him to

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Team, Player, Glasses

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• If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".

  Gyles Brandreth

  Glasses, Broken, Simplicity

  "Genius" with Dave Gorman, BBC Radio 4, Series 3, Episode 4, October 22, 2007.

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• Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

  Charles Portis

  Wall, Home, Garden

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• And that is also what the movie's about, going beyond success, what is success 'cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn't. There is many things inside that success. There's a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.

  David O. Russell

  Sadness, Maturity, Thinking

  "How Director David O. Russell Discovered 'Joy'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.

  John Donne

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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• Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.

  Harry Crews

  Lying, Party, Home

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• At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Air, Blood

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

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• When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Glasses, Doors, Broken

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• There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, Glasses, Light

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• The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Glasses, Broken, Laughing

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

  Rumi

  Crush, Kindness, Flower

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• The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Islands, Glasses

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth." "You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense.

  Rick Riordan

  Jealous, Glasses, Voice

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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, Glasses, Ice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Usual, Tools

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.

  Jasper Fforde

  Moving, Fall, Glasses

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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