Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.
Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.
Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence.
The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way: Right color, right value, in right spot. There are no prescriptions.
Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time
Jace?" She offered him the glass. "I am a man," he told her. "And men do not consume pink beverages. Get the 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.
I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses. I was the epitome of a nerd.
I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty. '" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste. " Brett's glass was empty.
I had started out with the intent to make a love story and something not so grave or so dark. So I went into this saying, "I want to do a love story, not to be seen with rose-colored glasses, but not as heavy. " As it turned out, it surprised me the place where it led actually was something so painful. I identified so much with them that I experienced a lot of that suffering as well.
Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.
The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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.
The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.
It's been said that as we move through life, we have to juggle a number of different balls. Some balls, like the one that represents career, are made of rubber. If we drop them, they have the ability to bounce back. But some balls are made of glass - family is like that. If you drop that ball, it doesn't come back.
I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.
When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
Now we come to the passage. You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.
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.