Top 1200 Shards Of Glass Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I'm afraid of open bodies of water. I was in a glass-bottomed boat that broke a long time ago, so I've always been kind of freaked out.

When I'm in Italy on a Friday night, my first supper there is a big bowl of fresh pasta and a glass of local wine, sitting outside. There's nothing better.

The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.

If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

I've only seen one snake out in the wilderness, not behind glass, and I froze. I literally couldn't move. So to say I have a fear of snakes would be true.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask.

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.

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come.

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.

Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.

I grant that people are generally uncomfortable with how fast privacy issues are changing in the world, but Google Glass is not going to move the needle on that.

You can find me at three in the morning in my living room with a glass of wine and really bad '90s trip hop beats blaring from my headphones.

I never perceived being adopted as the glass being half-empty.

She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.

I love Champagne and I love to drink it out of any kind of beautiful glass.

I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.

I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear, After so much reciting: So, if you don't object, my dear, We'll try a glass of bitter beer - I think it looks inviting.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

When were we the most egalitarian country in the world? When we had the Glass/Steagal Act, which prevented the banks from becoming the criminal operations that they've become.

That's all the difficulty and the challenge and the battle: to look through this mechanical thing, these bits of glass and metal, at someone. And not lose the sense that this shape is a human being.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

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

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands.

I prepare for my fights to well that I don't wanna give a chance to my opponent to crash my 'glass chin' as they say, so I'm knocking them in the way that I like.

I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.

Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of a Degas painting. The point is not for people to go to their cellar and stroke their bottles.

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

I use a Kiehl's spray when I fly. Your skin gets so dry on a plane. And I always have to have a little glass of wine. I'm French! I have to. It's part of my life.

It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.