Quotes About Breaking Glass

#1. We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects.

Serge Schmemann

#2. The sun still, surprisingly, came up and shone down onto the cold, metal leftovers. No loud noises. No screams. No breaking glass. Just silence and sunshine. You would be forgiven for thinking that this all happened on another planet. It didn't.

Pleasefindthis

#3. The trust that had been building inside each of us spread throughout the classroom. Had one of the windows broken at that moment, not even the sound of breaking glass could have disturbed the gentle stillness.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#4. Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

Perry Como

#5. I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.

Nick Lowe

#6. Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

Joey Comeau

#7. He was about to kiss me. I was sure of it. I had never been kissed before and had no idea what to do! - Delphine Delmar

Heidi Peltier

#8. Amid these fading and decaying things, be the glass that rings out as it's breaking.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#9. And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside.
It was the sound of her heart breaking.

Alexandra Potter

#10. We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can't feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound - that of glass breaking - until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.

Ann Aguirre

#11. Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

Jonathan Aitken

#12. 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

#13. The sound of the ocean breaking our silence was like chocolate syrup poured into a glass of milk, dispersing into awkward dark clumps while waiting to be stirred.

Rachel Cohn

#14. Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

Jane Harman

#15. Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.

John Hickenlooper

#16. At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

Alex Ebert

#17. Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

Dick Gephardt

#18. I think about my family first. I want my family to not want for anything. I would like to make sure they have no worries.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#19. I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.

Nancy Gibbs

#20. She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#21. I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

Marian Wright Edelman

#22. Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.

Matsuo Basho

#23. If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.

T. Boone Pickens

#24. I hear the unmistakable sound of glass breaking and I start apologizing to no one, trying to pick it up again, but I can't.
I can't get my hands to work because they're too cold.

Courtney Summers

#25. 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