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  • The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.

  • For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

    Baseball   Past   Glasses  
    Donald Hall (2017). “Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)”, p.59, North Point Press
  • The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

  • Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

    Drinking   Wine   Glasses  
  • You possess a non-renewable resource, which is headed toward total depletion and that resource is time. You can either invest your life or let it dribble through your fingers like sand in an hour glass. If there is ever a time to redeem every second, every minute it is now. You may never have tomorrow. You can't count your days, but with the Lord as your Savior you can make your days count.

  • I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

    Spring   Glasses   Water  
    Jules Verne (2013). “Jules Verne Selected Works: 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Mysterious Island”, p.509, Lulu Press, Inc
  • If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

    Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.116, Routledge
  • A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, "Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad."

    Baseball   Hate   Real  
    Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.
  • I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!

    Queens   Lying   Taken  
    Margaret Atwood (2009). “Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing”, p.127, Hachette UK
  • The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

    Glasses   Alcohol   Enemy  
  • I also love lifestyles of the rich and famous and guess what? It's not unusual for me to sit in bed with my laptop and glass of wine, clicking through real estate slide shows on the New York Times website; looking at ungodly expensive homes I could not ever possibly afford.

    New York   Real   Home  
    Source: www.today.com
  • Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring.

  • Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.

    Dark   Animal   Keys  
    Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”
  • "Jace?" She offered him the glass. "I am a man," he told her. "And men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone, woman and bring me something brown." "Brown?" Isabelle made a face. "Brown is a manly colour," said Jace and yanked on a stray lock of Isabelle's hair with his free hand. "In fact, look - Alec is wearing it." Alec looked mournfully down at his sweater. "It was black," he said. "But then it faded." "You could dress it up with a sequined headband," Magnus suggested.

    Men   Glasses   Hair  
    "City of Glass". Book by Cassandra Clare, 2009.
  • You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.

    Glasses   Looks   Half  
    "Kanye West: The Best Tweeter Of All Time". www.mtv.com. August 12, 2010.
  • Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

  • I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, "It's impolite; remove your glasses." I said, "Do I ask you to remove your bra?"

    "Karl Lagerfeld meets his match". Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2011.
  • If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.

    Glasses   Issues   Sides  
    Twitter post from Apr 13, 2012
  • ... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.

    Funny   Humorous   Wine  
    Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.65
  • There is what might be called a Catch-22 of hazardous occupations: The more hazardous the job, the more men; the more men, the less we care about making the job safer. The Catch-22 of hazardous occupations creates a 'glass cellar' which few women wish to enter. Women are alienated not just out of the fear of being hurt on the job, but by an atmosphere that can make a hazardous job more hazardous than it needs to be.

    Hurt   Jobs   Men  
    "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.
  • Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

    Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books
  • I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.

    Book   Thinking   Order  
    Jan Clausen (1989). “Books & Life”
  • Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran? It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming. I don't see any other explanation.

    Glasses   Shoes   Perfect  
    "Nana". Manga by Ai Yazawa, 2000 - 2009.
  • [I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters.]Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. There's a whole world about Roland left to know. I've got questions. He'd have answers. So pour him a glass of wine.

    Kings   Wine   Character  
    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.

    Soccer   Glasses   Wow  
    Interview with Lauren Green, bleacherreport.com. May 6, 2010.
  • Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from afar. Initiation, on the other hand, requires direct participation and demands each of us to smash the casket and press mad lips to mystery, wooing her as a lover who will offer up her treasurers in a succession of sweet surrenders. This she will do, but only in exact ratio to our evolving ability and worthiness to receive them.

    Lon Milo DuQuette (2012). “The Sons of Osiris: A Side Degree: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.6, Weiser Books
  • excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

    LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”
  • I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a "nerd." I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It's like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it's hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you've gained all the experiences it had.

  • You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

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