Top 70 Break Glass Quotes
#1. What's proper workplace etiquette for picking up computer and tossing out window? Open window first or break glass?
Abigail Roux
#2. A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.
Anne Rice
#3. In case of Ragnarok break glass and play an E flat. Where's
Lev Grossman
#4. It is a fact of modern political life that when such disasters strike, even those Americans who say they believe in smaller government, or no government at all, quickly break glass and call the government, demanding relief.
David Axelrod
#5. There was something between me and the world right then. I saw it like a big sheet of glass, too thick to break through. I could make new friends, but they could never know me.
Ava Dellaira
#6. Like a squash ball, locked inside an all-glass court, played in a never ending Sisyphean rally between two invisible and equally able opponents, that's what the Digital State first felt like. A descriptor in search of a winning shot, to break the deadlock, to set it free.
Simon Pont
#7. 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.
Paulo Coelho
#8. What do I do now?
I didn't think my heart could break any more than it already has.
The pieces still inside of me feel like broken glass.
Every time I take a breath, they stab into me.
It never ends ...
H.M. Ward
#9. You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me?
Charlotte Eriksson
#10. had been installed on top of each cab for the drivers. The cabs were stripped of everything that added excess weight but left otherwise intact, with doors that closed and windows of difficult-to-break automobile glass,
Emily St. John Mandel
#11. At the very moment when the world seems to break up we still take it seriously and perform reasonable acts and undertakings, the condemned man still drinks his glass of rum. To call it everyday and condemn it as inauthentic is to fail to recognize the sincerity of hunger and thirst
Emmanuel Levinas
#12. I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.
Edward Thomas
#13. The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.
Bruce Bartlett
#14. Remember the days of moments past.
they bloom like roses
then break like glass
Scott M. Davis
Scott M. Davis
#15. Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.
Jeanette Winterson
#16. I'm an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed,
Ursula Burns
#17. It was crazy the way I could break this glass, shatter it so quickly with just one false move, but I could not kill it, not really, not for a million years.
Jillian Cantor
#18. Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.
Mercedes Lackey
#19. The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons, due to unavoidable circumstances, because it feels as if there's no other choice. And once you break one, the rest seem like so much broken glass. The damage is already done.
Stacey Kade
#20. There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.
Scott Stossel
#21. 1. All glass will break.
2. I am made of glass.
3. Therefore, I will break.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#22. If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
Francois Rabelais
#23. When I was young, a teen, fresh as a glass of water, my first lover said I should break the mirror and never seek on out again. He was right, of course.
Chloe Thurlow
#24. You know, glass is pretty easy to break, Aria. Roar was watching here, his gaze thoughtful.
Veronica Rossi
#25. I haven't been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.
Charlotte Eriksson
#26. Glass can break, but that doesn't mean it's weak. Sometimes the shards are all we get. I
Rebekah Crane
#27. The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#28. They think I am glass. But I am not. I am not delicate. I am stone. If they want to break me, they will have a hard time of it. I am unbreakable.
Jennifer Ellision
#29. I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.
Kathryn Bigelow
#30. We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.
Viola Davis
#31. The scariest stunt I've ever done was on 'Captain America.' We were doing some underwater sequence. I was in a submarine, and Chris Evans had to break the glass, and the water had to fill up quickly in the submarine.
Richard C. Armitage
#32. The surest way to shift feelings is to physically shift your body. Go get a glass of water, leave the room and walk around outside - anything to physically break the mood.
Andrew Mellen
#33. What happens when two introverts collide? Do they dissolve completely in each other's patience and silence, or do they break their glass shells and become new people?
Kanza Javed
#34. I hurl the glass teapot to the ground.
we both stare at it, stunned.
"it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me.
Sophie Kinsella
#35. We may shine, we may shatter,
We may be picking up the pieces here on after,
We are fragile, we are human,
And we are shaped by the light we let through us,
We break fast, cause we are glass.
We are glass.
Thompson Square
#36. Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to spill over, or break.
Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly
#37. For one hour a day, Lucifer took a break from his surveillance to indulge a guilty pleasure: drinking a tall, icy glass of Schweppes ginger ale and watching The O'Reilly Factor.
Robert Kroese
#38. Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.
Emma Goldman
#39. But I'm also strong enough to break through just about anything," I tell them, "and without even injuring myself. Concrete. Brick. Glass-"
"The earth," Kenji adds.
Tahereh Mafi
#40. Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper ...
Demi Lovato
#41. Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.
Helen Clark
#42. The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.
Indra Nooyi
#43. We need to put your sister in a glass case like Snow White," Colonel Hamilton said, his arms crossed. He was monitoring the radio chatter from the deck of a gunboat. "With a sign on it that says 'Break in the event of a zombie apocalypse.'
John Ringo
#45. But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over ... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.
Damien Hirst
#46. Try not to kill me with your love,
try not to break a glass wall
seeing everything,
but going unheard,
the words feel unspoken.
Crystals gleaming at our feet,
innocently joined by red fists
and a kiss.
Megan Hutchinson
#47. Each day we live is a glass room
Until we break it with the thrusting
Of the spirit and pass through
The splintered walls to the green pastures
Where the birds and buds are breaking
Into fabulous song and hue
By the still waters.
- Each Day We Live is a Glass Room
Mervyn Peake
#48. Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.
Mervyn Peake
#49. Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.
Mick Fleetwood
#50. Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.
Anthony Shadid
#51. I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.
Gene Wilder
#52. My eyes break open. Two shattered windows filling my mouth with glass.
Tahereh Mafi
#53. In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass is delicate. The thin, tight surface of the liquid light trembles. But it does not break. Time does not pass. Not yet.
Marya Hornbacher
#54. He was a glass half full kind of person and she was ... what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.
Erin McCarthy
#55. The water is still and smooth. Polished glass. Not a ripple of wind disturbs the dark surface. Low-rising mist drifts off liquid mountains floating against a purple-bruised sky. An eager breath shudders past my lips. Soon the sun will break.
Sophie Jordan
#56. Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down "Desolation Row." I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it.
Patti Smith
#57. Then I break a glass and I slit my very innermost thigh so that I can pretend that I'm menstru
well, unavailable.
Emilie Autumn
#58. You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I'll break yo face.
50 Cent
#59. My heart was glass
easy to see through, simple to break.
Amanda Sun
#60. He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.
Charlotte Eriksson
#61. If I break the glass, then I'll have to fly, There's no one to catch me if I take a dive. I'm scared of change, and the days stay the same, The world is spinning but only in gray
Lindsey Stirling
#62. The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.
Hilda Solis
#63. Not only did Peeves break easily through the giant bell jar, showering an entire corridor with broken glass, he also escaped the trap armed with several cutlasses, crossbows, a blunderbuss and a miniature cannon.
J.K. Rowling
#64. The question is: will I get used to a menu with kilojoules instead of calories? I mean, I don't think anyone even knows how many kilojoules are in a calorie. I had to break out a whiteboard this morning and do calculus just to figure out how many calories were in a glass of water Down Under.
Elle Lothlorien
#65. Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
Publilius Syrus
#66. It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.
The RZA
#67. If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.
Dan Brown
#68. We can continue to say to our girls as they grow into women, 'Come up here and scrunch under this glass ceiling with me.' Or we can say to them, 'Let me break this ceiling so when you come up here with me, we can stand up straight under the open sky.
Joyce T. McFadden
#69. I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#70. Summer turns and marches away, fed up with being handled like a child. Like she's a glass doll that might break at any minute. She hasn't been a child since the day she was whipped into muteness. Anxiety might strangle her sometimes, but she's not some baby needing to be coddled.
Laura Kreitzer
