Glass Ball Quotes

#1. I shook my head. Maddie, it's more than a glass ball.

Embee

#2. Suddenly, I found myself running along the rooftop, leaping and falling. Falling until I caught the zip-line handle and then I was zooming, flying across the sky. I released the precious glass ball, not even glancing down to see it shatter.

Embee

#3. As a kid, his favorite toy had been a snow globe, that held a small town of gingerbread buildings and peppermint streets. He'd wanted so badly to live there that one day he'd smashed the glass ball - only to find out that the houses were made of plaster, the candy stripes painted on.

Jodi Picoult

#4. I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.
- Ellen West

Carl R. Rogers

#5. She felt as if there were a glass ball in her chest- something delicate and beautiful that might shatter if she said the wrong word, if she disturbed the balance in any way.

Lauren Oliver

#6. European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#7. Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls
family, health, friends, integrity
are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Gary Keller

#8. Light, show yourself pure and strong,
Save a man from evil's throng,
Take a form, small and white,
Give this girl the strength to fight.

Clara Diane Thompson

#9. Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.

~The Moon Master

Clara Diane Thompson

#10. I would once again be an outsider, my nose pressed against the glass, watching the ball with no ticket to attend.

Alessandra Torre

#11. He is constantly reminding me that real magic doesn't come from achieving the perfect appearance, from being Cinderella at the ball with both glass slippers and a killer hairstyle. The real magic is in the pumpkin, in the mice, in the moonlight; not beyond ordinary life, but within it.

Martha N. Beck

#12. At midnight, Cinderella ran away from the ball, leaving behind glass slipper. The doors swing slowly close behind, shutting out the sound of the party, and I realize I've lost something far more important than a shoe. I've lost my best friend.

Donna Cooner

#13. He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

Ray Dalio

#14. In September dawns I hardly breathe - I am an image in a ball of glass. The world is suspended there, and I in it.

Nan Shepherd

#15. Apple Tree Inn, the nightly gathering place of all Winslow residents, and in many ways the core of the town's happiness, always had a warm fire crackling on the hearth and was known for its good cider and company.

Clara Diane Thompson

#16. Like attending the masquerade ball in Poe's story about the Red Death. You know, 'Come on, everybody! Kick out the jams, have another glass of champagne, and ignore all those people dropping like flies.

Stephen King

#17. And where are you going tonight?" Katy asked.
"Cinderella and I are going to the ball. If she loses a glass slipper, I will bring it by tomorrow." He smiled.

Carolyn Brown

#18. Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.

Harry Crews

#19. 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

#20. He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

Edgar Fiedler

#21. Puttin' on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn't make you country; Like puttin' on a ball gown & glass heels won't make me Cinderella.

Kellie Elmore

#22. He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass ... They're way, way close.

Mary Matalin

#23. There weren't any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a
Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

Seanan McGuire

#24. This is the kind of writer who gets the ball rolling in his search for the holy grail, but finds that it's neither magic bullet nor a slam dunk, so he rolls with the punches and lets the chips fall where they may while seeing the glass as half-full, which is easier said than done.

Steven Pinker

#25. People who live in brick houses shouldn't throw wrecking balls

Josh Stern

#26. Hal answered him. "We're as sure as we can be. The guard captain said he found a ball of yellow glass. What else could it be?" Jesper shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe a ball of yellow glass?

John Flanagan

#27. it wasn't those ill-fitting glass slippers that gave Cinderella the confidence to crash that ball. It was the dress-the dress made her do it!

Jane L Rosen

#28. You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball.

Demetri Martin

#29. She told herself there had been nothing outside, nothing peering in at her from the darkness.

Nothing at all.

Clara Diane Thompson

#30. Unlike Bec and I, Hayden didn't yell anything angry, but the speed at which his ball hit the glass made me think that maybe he did have a few demons.

Kasie West

#31. I am sure when Cinderella went to that ball, she took a great deal more pleasure in outsmarting her stepmother than in the carriage and the ball dress and the glass slippers.

Gita V. Reddy