Glass Quotes - page 2

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water. (Mark Cuban)
But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away. View quote
Francesca Lia Block
In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing. View quote
Don Tapscott
When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud. View quote
Alexis Arguello
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. View quote
Augustus Hare
I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie. View quote
Bernadette Peters
A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. View quote
Kathy Mattea
The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action. View quote
Graham Greene
It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark. (Ayn Rand)
She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common. View quote
Ayn Rand
Wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. View quote
Sylvia Plath
If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be. View quote
Thomas Malthus
It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather. View quote
Louis MacNeice
I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass. View quote
John Constable
Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly-and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity). View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines. View quote
William Gibson
I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs. (Robert B. Laughlin)
The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass. View quote
Peter Higgs
A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there. View quote
Stephen Fry
I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way. View quote
Victoria Beckham
Everyone can commit to 20 minutes, especially if there's a glass of Chardonnay afterwards. View quote
Kate Winslet