Top 1200 City Of Glass Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I don't mind cheese with a nice glass of port, but I prefer chocolate.

You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you.

I am deeply humbled by the hope and trust that Londoners have placed in me. I grew up on a council estate just a few miles from City Hall, and I never imagined that Londoners would one day elect someone like me to lead our great capital city.

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

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

I don't think any other city actually has anyone who has actually documented the way they have lived or documented the city themselves. If you want to look at New York in the last half of the 20th century, into the 21st, you would look at Bill Cunningham's archives.

Kush rolled, glass full, I prefer the better things.

In Rio we built a Center of Operations, a situation room that gathers information from municipal departments and allows us to manage and help decision-making. I can check the weather, the traffic and the location of city's waste collection trucks. Each of 4,000 buses in the city has a camera connected to the situation room.

I love a good book and a glass of wine. It's like heaven.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

What is Paris? ... Where nobody throws stones, for all live in glass houses.

New York city is full of great spaces. The best spaces of the world are here. This is the new Europe, where the settlers came and busted out their ideas and put it down so there's nothing but great space in this great city.

My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.

I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.

I`ve never seen an orange with the label Castle on it made of glass.

In the U.S., everything is big - it's like looking through a magnifying glass.

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

I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.

It feels like I can wrap up the day with a glass of beer.

A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.

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

Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light

London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.

One thing we wanted to take from traditional sports with 'Overwatch League' - we have city-based teams. There aren't really any other models where you have a global city-based league. But you do have teams that are based in a location.

It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.

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

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Just because there's glass on the road don't mean there's been an accident.

None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.

Everyone can commit to 20 minutes, especially if there's a glass of Chardonnay afterwards.

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.

If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.

I have not forgotten that you can see the world through pieces of coloured glass.

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.

Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say. 'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' And Lady Morgan making tay. For 'tis the capital of the finest nation, With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod, Fightin' like devils for conciliation, And hatin' each other for the Love of God.

Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.

At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

If Portland can truly have a true comics show that doesn't become a media show but retains its focus on comics, I think it's going to serve the city well. If this becomes a big show, it's going to bring in a lot of money for the city.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

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

I never touch it. Not directly, anyway. I always use a glass.

David Rouse, a goalkeeping scout for Manchester City, came over for maybe a week in October. He was an awesome guy. He showed me what kind of club they were like. We talked about Manchester City. He watched me and watched a game.

...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees no symbol of itself in the cities. The inevitable result is a desolation whose practical effect is the total indifference of the big-city dweller to the destiny of his city.

Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.

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

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