Glass Block Sayings

#1. It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed.

Sunday Adelaja

#2. Now What?" Kerensky said. "We wait," Dahl said. "For how long?" Kerensky said, " As long as dramatically appropriate," Dahl said.

John Scalzi

#3. You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ...

Francesca Lia Block

#4. Health note: My stomach is getting out of bounds; the seams of my vendor's smock are creaking ominously.

John Kennedy Toole

#5. But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.

Francesca Lia Block

#6. I climb through the rubble toward the door. It takes a long time, time enough for a Giant to see me from the blood-red stained-glass eye window and reach out to crush me in his hand the size of a tractor.

Francesca Lia Block

#7. To this, John offered a smile of singular bleakness. He's not the only one.

Stephen King

#8. The shattered glass
Of soundproof walls
That can block the night no more
Is scattered, alas,
On the broken stillness
Of a distant, darkened shore.

L.S. Hartfield

#9. Lex surfed wicked, like the devil. He wasn't afraid of anything, seemed like. He grinned at West as the waves came up toward them like towers of green glass, an emerald city. We're off to see the wizard, he shouted. He whooped. His body crouched ready to fly. He shone against the sun.

Francesca Lia Block

#10. Shura ... are you ... in love with me?"
"Turn to me," Alexander said. She turned. "Tatia, I worship you. I'm crazy in love with you. I want you to marry me.

Paullina Simons

#11. I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

Andy Milonakis

#12. I seen a pig so big it'd block out the sun.

Ira Glass

#13. But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

Will Estes