Glasses Quotes - Page 4

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

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Marriage, Dog, Couple

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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sympathy, Condolences, Wine

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

  Andrew Cuomo

  Believe, Ceilings, Faces

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

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Funny, Marriage, Wine

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• My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

  Loni Anderson

  Mom, Fashion, Memories

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• Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  Cutting, Pieces, Stones

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• I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

  Christopher Columbus

  Broken Heart, Boys, Broken Promises

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50

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• Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

  William Congreve

  Father, Idlers, Needs

  William Congreve (1753). “The Works of Mr William Congreve...”, p.4

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• I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

  Junot Diaz

  Engineering, Black, Looks

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• I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, School, Kids

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks". Interview With Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

  George Herbert

  Alcohol, Drink, Thee

  'The Church-porch', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  House, Made, Protect

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• At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Giving

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• The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Faces, Fierce

  "MythBusters/ Breaking Glass". Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV, 2005.

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• The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

  Adam Savage

  Couple, Years, Fierce

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• I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

  Lucinda Williams

  Term

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• Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

  Brigham Young

  Sea, Sun, Spheres

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• Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  Doe, Culture, Littles

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• Once you drink one glass, you want another.

  John Forsythe

  Eyeglasses, Want, Drink

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• The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

  Theodor Adorno

  Eye, Splinters, Magnifying

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.64, Univ of California Press

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• Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, University of Georgia Press

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• I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

  Tracy Kidder

  Want, Clear, Prose

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• Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

  James Lafferty

  Historical, Mind, Example

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• Nothing in Nature's sober found,
  But an eternal Health goes round.
  Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high--
  Fill all the Glasses there; for why
  Should every Creature Drink but I?
  Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

  Abraham Cowley

  Drinking, Men, Moral

  1656 'Drinking'.

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• Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Vision, Obscure

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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