Glasses Quotes

• When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Real, Frost

  "The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Love, Wine, Kissing

  "The Book of Embraces" by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Cedric Belfrage, 1991.

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

  David Lee Roth

  Funny, Life, Sports

  "Roth Army" by Oliver Hurley, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2004.

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  If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

  Paul McCartney

  Wall, Food, Health

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

  Dorothy Parker

  Girl, Men, Intellectual

  "News Item" l. 1 (1926)

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

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Writing, Moon

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• I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

  Lesley Garrett

  Wine, People, Opera

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Funny, Sarcastic, Cutting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's so ironic. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Dark, Ironic, Recognition

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• I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

  Jenny Eclair

  Situation, Ifs, Short Sighted

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• Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

  Alan Bennett

  Life, Sides, Whole

  Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.178, Faber & Faber

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• A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Hard Work, Humor

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• My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Friends, Heart, New Relationship

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• Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Great Day, Each Day

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• Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

  Mary Astell

  Reflection, Mind, Half

  1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

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• Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

  Enid Nemy

  Office, Legends, Architecture

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• I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

  Bernadette Peters

  Mother, Play, One Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

  Rex Stout

  Keys

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• Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

  Perry Como

  Running, Kids, Doors

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• Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Broken Heart, Together, Broken Glass

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• When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

  Anton Chekhov

  Ocean, Two, Literature

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• It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Use, Literature, Faces

  "The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol, 1836.

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• It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

  James Lafferty

  Art, Common, Finest

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• A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Scotland, Tea, Cost

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.23, Wakefield Press

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