Best Glasses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 21

“The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.”

Book Eye Mother Tired Glasses His Eyes Obliged Short Time

Book:Wise Blood: A Novel

Source: Wise Blood: A Novel

“By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned me about the smell." Abbadon opened its mouth and hissed. Inside its mouth were two rows of jagged glass-sharp teeth. "I'm not sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really only holes in the black glass of the dome, and when you went to heaven, the glass broke away, and there was nothing but a whole sheet of star white, which is brighter than anything but doesn't hurt your eyes. It was vast and open and thinly quiet, and I felt so small.”

Said Whole Eye Heaven Stars Felt Black Hurt White Quiet Mark Glasses Holes Broke Giants Sheets Brighter Domes Snowball

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“Redd laughed. "The lovely thing about being here," she said, gesturing at the maze, "is that I'm able to immagine your imagination powerless. Ah, if only that were the case on the outside. But enough chitchat. If you're going to die--which you are--I'm sure you'd like to get it over with." --The Looking Glass Wars”

Ifs Said War Enough Able Dies Imagination Cases Glasses Lovely Laughed Powerless Mazes Lovely Things

Author:Frank Beddor

“...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.”

Ifs Way Wells May Feelings Half Empty Glasses Half Empty

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“I'm having the weirdest sense of deja vu right now," said the green caterpiller. Duh!" said the blue caterpiller. "Do you think, just maybe, that's because you predicted this?" Oh, yeah." --The Looking Glass Wars”

Thinking Said War Right Now Blue Yeah Green Glasses Deja Vu Duh

Author:Frank Beddor

“The queen is head. Long live the queen...me." The platoon of renegade soldiers cheered. Redd kicked The Cat where he lay on the floor, tongue lolling in his mouth, the picture of death. "Get up! You still have seven more lives." The Cat's eyes fluttered open. Find Alyss and kill her." With a wave of her hand, the looking glass was once again whole. The Cate jumped through, in prosuit of the only living Heart besides Redd.”

Heart Long Stills Whole Hands Eye Mouths Cat Lays Seven Soldier Glasses Wave Tongue Get Up Queens Renegades

Author:Frank Beddor

“How do I look?" Amanda asked. Jack shook his head ruefully as he glanced at her. No one could mistake the remaining flush on her cheeks, or the soft sparkle of her eyes, or her lusciously swollen mouth, for anything other than the results of physical passion. "Like you've been ravished," he said flatly. She astonished him by smiling. "Hurry, please. I want to go inside my house and consult a looking glass. I've always wanted to know what a ravished woman looks like.”

Knows Want Looks Said Eye Wanted Passion House Results Mistake Like You Please Mouths Glasses Cheeks Her Eyes Sparkle Amanda Swollen

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”

Men Light Cities Sun Clear Equal Paper Glory Window Glasses Rays Shed New Life Rotten Crowded Radiant Cathedrals Freshness Domes Crevice Crowded Cities

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.”

“I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight." That was the first sentence. The problem was that I just couldn't think of the next one. After cleaning my room three times, I decided to leave Ian alone for a while because I was starting to get mad at him.”

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.”

Firsts Stories Happens Mistake Millions Seeing First Time Ears Sticks Glasses Things Happen Cute Polite Discouraged Polished

Author:Maira Kalman

“A Glass Eye leaped out from behind a parcked smail-trasport, blocked thier way. "Did you drop something?" Dodge asked the assassian. "Caus I think I see you..." he unheathed his sword and swung, decapitating the Glass Eye in one blow, "...head over there.”

Thinking Way Eye Behinds Glasses Blow Blocked Dodge

Author:Frank Beddor

“Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early." -Ranger”

Two Night Guy Watches Car Television Building Bed Wine Glasses Legs Destroyed Nuts Burned Babe Sixteen Rangers Wine Glass Stitches

Book:Lean Mean Thirteen

Source: Lean Mean Thirteen

“At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.”

Trying Stills Light Together Girl Wish Pieces Air Blood Broken Court Glasses Bones Firm Feathers Back Together Broken Glass

Book:The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy bracelet as she set down his glass. This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.”

“I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it would still be a useless glued version of its former self, which could show only fragmented reflections of anyone looking into it. Some things are beyond repair. And that was me.”

Ifs Mean Stills Self Shows Together Pieces Broken Skills Reflection Mirrors Glasses Tiny Versions Former Useless Cracks Chips Shattered Back Together Fragmented Broken Glass

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy. Thinking that he might still be helpful in finding her Looking Glass Maze, she said, "I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.”

Thinking Said Stills Feelings Might Today Sacrifice Findings Mercy Glasses Appeals Generous Helpful Bent Refreshing Mazes Groveling

Author:Frank Beddor

“One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.”

Inspirational Said Problem Water Half One Day Empty Philosophical Glasses Drank Half Full Half Empty

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.”

Red Empty Wine Bottom Glasses Spots Wine Glass

Book:Willful Creatures

Source: Willful Creatures

“You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.”

World Glasses Fishes Mortals Swimming Globes

Book:Protector of the Small Quartet

Source: Protector of the Small Quartet

“A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.”

Feels Ideas Hate Next Half Novel Hair Angry Glasses Arguing Bars Plot Other Half Very Deep Combs Deep Things

Author:Paulo Coelho

“He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.”

May Light Eye Clear Filled Glasses Frodo Baggins

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“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.”

Needs Writing Children Persons Night Water Sitting Glasses Sitting Down Small Child

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.”

Should Whole Half Empty Glasses Spills Devastated Half Empty Hopes Up

Book:Something Borrowed: A Novel

Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel

“What's that?' Beck shoved his back ineffectually against the glass door, suffering under the weight of a huge box. 'Your brian.' I already have a brain.' If you did, you'd have opened the door for me.' I shot him a dark look and let him shove against the door a moment longer before I ducked under his arms to push it open. 'What is it really?' Schoolbooks. We're going to educate you properly, so you don't grow up to be an idiot.; I remembered by intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Moments School Suffering Grows Water Dark Brain Growing Up Doors Huge Arms Shots Weight Add Glasses Boxes Idiot Remembered Educate Intrigued Brian

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.”

I Can Light Wanted Water Dark Rooms Wonder Watches Cold Glasses Showers Fog Wakes You

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art glass-- strong enough to handle and use, delicate enough to shatter under a strong blow, and filled with swirls of color that fascinated the eye. But while most people--and most glass--allowed light through, she could discern nothing of Devlin's heart and soul through the smoke and mirrors he held before him.”

“He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.”

Knows World Light Wanted Left Walks Car Window Glasses Joints Another World Fast Food Drapes

Book:American Gods

Source: American Gods

“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.”

Pain Moving Courses Sadness Shapes Window Mark Glasses Vanishing Raindrops Question Mark

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“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.”

Way Mind Running Science Turns Hours Good Things Glasses Now And Then Particles Upside Down Hour Glasses

Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit. And nearly choked to death. It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me. "Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing. Viktoria grinned. "Vodka." I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before." "Not Russian vodka." Apparently not.”

Form Fire Glasses Finished Suits Cups Drank Liquid Spray Vodka Coughing

Book:Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.”

Knows Men Stills Known Century Cold Fingers Glasses Stranger Surface Touched Outsiders Polished Abomination Gilded Unyielding

Book:The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key

Source: The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key

“Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.”

Littles Different Seems Together Pieces Color Fit Hundred Window Glasses Mood Thoughtful Different Colors Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Book:Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

“Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole.”

Glasses Coffee Moles Retorts

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“I’m beginning to sense a theme,” Mircea said, tossing his suit coat over a buckskin-covered chair. A moose head with huge, outspread antlers loomed over it, its bright glass eyes looking oddly lifelike in the low light. Mircea took in the room, his expression slightly repulsed yet fascinated. “I believe there is only one thing to say at this point.” What’s that?” Yee haw,” he said gravely, and took me down like a rodeo calf.”

Believe Said Light Eye I Believe Rooms One Thing Expression Huge Lows Glasses Suits Theme Chairs Over It Covered Fascinated Coats Calves Rodeo Moose Eyes Looking Antlers

Book:Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5

Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5

“As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.”

Book Light Shadow Mirrors Structure Fingers Glasses Smell Ran Cracks Floating Spine Embedded Lanterns

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.”

Ifs Night Bits Drink Glasses Alcohol December Eloquent Interpreter

Book:The Book of Salt: A Novel

Source: The Book of Salt: A Novel

“The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.”

Eye Life Is Cases Aspect Tradition Ears Glasses Aesthetic Pouring Flux Canon

Book:Mina Loy: woman and poet

Source: Mina Loy: woman and poet

“Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.”

Glasses Ice Faster Cubs Dissolving

Book:A Gate at the Stairs

Source: A Gate at the Stairs

“You, God, who live next door - If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking - this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom. I know you're all alone in that room. If you should be thirsty, there's no one to get you a glass of water. I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign! I'm right here... Sen komşu tanrı, Uzun geceler bazen, Kapına vura vura uyandırıyorsam seni Solumanı seyrek duyduğumdandır... Bilirim, yalnızsın odanda. Sana birşey gerekse kimse yok, Bir yudum su versin aradığında. Hep dinlerim, yeter ki bir ses edin, Öyle yakınım sana.”

Ifs Knows Giving Should Long Night Next Waiting Water Rooms Trouble Doors Listening Give Me Glasses Breathe Urgent Knocking Thirsty All Alone Long Nights Yaks Sana

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an Ob-Gyn to look at the sore on your di-ow!" Oh, sorry," said his father, peering blandly over gold-rimmed glasses. "That your foot, Lenny?”

Source: The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone

“She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.”