Glass Quotes

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

After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

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

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.

I like to look at the glass half full.

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

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

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

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.

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

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

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.

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

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

They don't know they're living in a glass house.

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

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

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

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

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.

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

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

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.

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

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.

I feel like 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.'