Quotes About Blown Glass

#1. But in the hours that were really minutes, he didn't beg me not to leave. He didn't say he hadn't meant it. When I stood, his gaze just followed me up. Then I was a shattered blown-glass blue rose, and every step away from him made my shards clatter and chime.

Jodi Meadows

#2. Winds shook me apart piecemeal, flung a bone here, a bone there. My eyes became snow, my hair turned to ice; I heard it chime against my shoulders like wind-blown glass. If I spoke, words would fall from me like snow, pour out of me like black wind.

Patricia A. McKillip

#3. And right now he and Douglas were hiking out beyond town on another warm and marble-round day, the sky blue blown-glass reaching high, the creeks bright with mirror waters fanning over white stones. It was a day as perfect as the flame of a candle.

Ray Bradbury

#4. My refusal to play the Games on the Capitol's terms is to be my last act of rebellion. So

Suzanne Collins

#5. The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars,
blown about us by the wind, and drink the
universe in a glass of rain.

Ihab Hassan

#7. Little creatures they were who seemed to have been blown from glass.

Michael Ende

#8. Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

Suzanne Collins

#9. You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire."
"And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

Sarah Beth Durst

#10. When you were a kid, [work in IBM] seemed like an awesome job. I'd get to go to work and have a briefcase. I loved how Dad wore a tie and got a car. I didn't know if all those things came together. I'd see my dad go off to work and we'd wait for him to come home, and we'd all be excited to see him.

Jimmy Fallon

#11. Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

William Shakespeare

#12. And won't he grow up to be the healthiest of young men, all because she kept him safe? Ready for the world. Ready to one day conquer it. To travel. Get on a train. Go to work. Get blown out of her life.
Maybe she should be having that glass of wine and cigarette after all.

Melina Marchetta

#13. Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push ... You live, you help.

Ram Dass

#14. The glass wall behind must have blown out as well, four stories of lethal shards surfing the roar of air and fire.

Marcus Sakey

#15. Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#16. Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

Mason Cooley

#17. Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution.

Ken Ham