Top 100 Quotes About Glasses
#1. Being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses
Megan Boyle
#3. The old man asked again. "When I'm gone." His eyes blinked from behind his glasses. His neatly trimmed beard was gray, and he stood slightly stooped. Are you dying? I asked. "Not yet," he said, grinning. Then why - "Because I think you would
Mitch Albom
#4. I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.
George Washington Carver
#5. We all come to the point where it's time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It's tough love but it's also being real with yourself. It's important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what's going on.
Kelly Rowland
#6. Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
Samuel Johnson
#7. Between the whiskers scraggling down his neck and the now-crooked glasses, he could have been the Black Allen Ginsberg.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#8. If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.
Jeannette Walls
#9. All you have to do is wear a hat, dark glasses and carry a Greek newspaper ...
Sharon Stone
#10. She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch.
Nenia Campbell
#11. I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.
Clay Aiken
#12. They have real glasses and real wine of three kinds, namely, blackthorn wine, berberris wine, and cowslip wine,
J.M. Barrie
#13. I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.
Sue Townsend
#14. You should have seen him," she said. "A real ladies' man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers.
Alexander McCall Smith
#15. Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be truer,
Jose Saramago
#16. The Lisa Loeb Eyewear line was created to satisfy all of those people who always stop me and ask me where I get my glasses because they want some just like mine!
Lisa Loeb
#17. I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife.
Felicity Huffman
#18. I don't really do glasses. It's a good look, but I'm not big on wearing clear glasses for fashion. And I don't wear too many shades because my fans love to see my eyes.
Trey Songz
#19. I wear glasses, have a big scar, I sing loud, and I am blond. I'm sorry!
Anastacia
#20. I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
C.S. Lewis
#21. Ragtime plinking, glasses clinking, choruses getting sung with only half the lyrics right, giggles bubbling over like a tower of champagne.
It's a party, shaking down the dawn.
Catherynne M Valente
#22. Thriller writers see a rose colored world through dark tinted glasses.
Carl Henegan
#23. I'm never going to look like a Nordic model, so I play with what I've got. Instead of going gray, I dye my hair bright colors; I have bad vision, so I wear sparkly glasses. I embrace that I look like a crazy lady.
Jenji Kohan
#24. Popular, gentle, solitary and eccentric, Wyndham lived with his mother, wore heavy glasses and high-waisted trousers, gave off random murmurs and squeaks, and moved with an amphibian gait.
Patrick French
#25. Mma Makutsi had overheard this remark and had been so cross that her glasses misted over; that was always a bad sign, Mma Ramotswe knew.
Alexander McCall Smith
#26. If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.
Julian Sands
#27. I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be.
Bonnie Langford
#28. He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough.
J.D. Robb
#29. He always told his daughter the rest of it, quietly and solemnly, but Jean Louise sometimes thought she detected an unmistakably profane glint in Atticus Finch's eyes, or was it merely the light hitting his glasses? She never knew.
Harper Lee
#30. I've always been attracted to unusual eyewear. I thought glasses were an interesting accessory, depending on the shape of your face. People would always ask me, "Why are your frames so large?" And I would say, "The bigger to see you!" And that shut them up.
Iris Apfel
#31. He is a pale, long faced, unsmiling fellow who probably lives on a diet of organic bran and carrot juice. He heard Ballard open the proceedings against La Maison with a pained expression, and looked at me over his half-glasses as though I were a saucepan that hadn't been washed up properly.
John Mortimer
#32. You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
L. Ron Hubbard
#33. I put the wine bottle on the counter and reached for a couple of wine glasses. "Would you like some? It's a fine vintage stock. I'm pretty sure it was on the shelf of the Piggly Wiggly for at least two weeks.
Denise Grover Swank
#34. At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
Aimee Mullins
#35. Sometimes I'm glad Penny wears glasses; her eye contact is so fierce, it's good to have a buffer.
Rainbow Rowell
#36. I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
Eddie Marsan
#37. I wear glasses. That's how you'll know me. I am the speccy one ... And I am proud.
Greg Proops
#38. Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
Edwidge Danticat
#39. After an hour of gliding though the crowd and two glasses of tepid wine later, Penelope had reached the spiritual state of being merrily tipsy. It was that perfect state when everything starts looking wonderful and every tragedy turns into a comedy.
Anya Wylde
#40. I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them.
Frank Laubach
#41. You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that.
Michelle Chamuel
#42. He felt the journal in his pocket. It was like a pair of glasses that he had worn for a time, enabling him to see a world he didn't even know existed.
Rebecca Rash
#43. Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They fought - not because the liquor was in them, but because it did not fill them enough.
Nelson Algren
#44. Sarah Palin gave a speech in South Korea. Just what the Koreans needed: Two crazy dictators in fashionable lady's glasses.
Conan O'Brien
#45. On losing the opportunity to star in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 'You know what? It happened for the right reason. Although I would have made a good Clark Kent. I look better in glasses.
Kevin Sorbo
#46. Science is a way of looking at the world without the rose-coloured glasses of ignorance!
Dr Steven Bottomley
#47. She wears glasses that are not too small. I wish I was a girl like that. I wear contact lenses because glasses make me look like I am wearing glasses. I am not saying this properly. When she wears glasses she looks so quiet, like a grenade with the pin still in.
Joey Comeau
#48. It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.
Madhuri Dixit
#49. Matt's still watching my face closely, as if nerdy glasses are going to manifest on my face.
Emery Lord
#50. Vespers In which the rest of the abbey is visited, William comes to some conclusions about Adelmo's death, there is a conversation with the brother glazier about glasses for reading and about phantoms for those who seek to read too much. At
Umberto Eco
#52. But she was beautiful, with hair and eyes so dark and long. He imagined she was a reservation eclipse. Full. He needed special glasses to look at her; he could barely survive her reflection. "You're a constellation," he said.
Sherman Alexie
#53. I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond.
Joseph Kosinski
#54. The world is like a bar, we all fill our glasses the way we can.
M.F. Moonzajer
#55. If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As it was I couldn't ...
John King, Baron King Of Wartnaby
#56. Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.
Fulton J. Sheen
#57. Bazaar shoppers who wear dark glasses in order to hide their level of interest from merchants.
Daniel Kahneman
#58. When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.
Robert Rodriguez
#59. Ms. Whitlock stands in front of her desk in her patented white button-down shirt, gray pencil skirt and dark-rimmed glasses.
Katie McGarry
#60. Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.
Annette O'Toole
#61. Do you know who I am, you sodding barn animal?" he hissed. The publican gurgled. "I'm Jack fucking Winter." Jack said, releasing him with a push that rattled clean glasses on the bar back.
Caitlin Kittredge
#62. Wine glasses, like fine wines, have always been a symbol of civilized living.
Alexis Lichine
#63. Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.
Toby Keith
#64. Anyone who wears glasses can be an Oakley consumer.
James Jannard
#65. He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.
Terry Pratchett
#66. Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
Christina Stead
#68. My grandmother used to say before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses make sure you're not on about the muck on your own her glasses were filthy
John Hegley
#69. I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
Steven Wright
#70. GWGs [girls with glasses] aren't happy being nomads; they need a safe place to put their glasses while they sleep.
Marissa Walsh
#71. I used to have really bad skin, and when I was younger, I had a lazy eye. I had to wear a patch and pink-rimmed glasses.
Georgia Salpa
#72. The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
James Joyce
#73. The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so
Guy De Maupassant
#74. Goodness gracious me,' exclaimed Alexia, 'what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and some opera glasses. What on earth are they called, binocticals, spectoculars?
Gail Carriger
#75. He cannot hold his wine; he has no head for it. Why, on no more than three glasses, for I absolutely poured him out no more, he was on the point of singing Yankee Doodle. Yankee Doodle, in a King's ship, upon my sacred honour!
Patrick O'Brian
#76. I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film."
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#77. People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
Ines De La Fressange
#78. Beyond the veil of suffering is a light that shines bright in every one of us. One does not need glasses to see that light, just compassion.
Charles F. Glassman
#79. He's not really my man," I protested.
One fuzzy white eyebrow rose over the lens of his glasses. "You were certainly ogling him as if he was.
Katie MacAlister
#80. At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks.
Marc Andreessen
#81. Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.
Paul Desmond
#82. I go in for the eye test, and I don't know about you, but I concentrate like crazy during the eye exam. You don't want to get no 'D' on that thing and end up with these big thick Coke bottle glasses.
Brian Regan
#83. Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,
to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.
Jonathan Swift
#84. Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
#85. Sometimes tears are the glasses that we need to see Jesus.
Pope Francis
#86. I love to go to the airports and just put on, like, dark glasses, so nobody can tell I'm staring at them, and just draw people.
Pete Docter
#87. All over her face and sunglasses so big that one can't tell whether they're a pair of glasses or some kind of helmet.
Fredrik Backman
#88. We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.
Libba Bray
#89. Whenever I feel lonely I remembered those days. My mother walking ahead of me, barefoot, her hair blowing in the wind, across her mouth, a pair of her soft shoes in her hand, yet she still looked beautiful and elegant to me. Her glasses perched on the end of her nose.
Abigail George
#90. Was it possible that I - short, too full-figured, wearing glasses, I diligent but not intelligent, I who pretended to be cultured, informed, when I wasn't - could have believed that he would like me even just for the length of a vacation?
Elena Ferrante
#91. You didn't 'instruct' me to stay," Ceony countered. "Just to leave the dining room. Which I did."
Mg. Aviosky rubbed the bridge of her nose under her glasses. "This feels very much like detention again, Ceony.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#92. I always sat in the front so I could see the blackboard - I guessed I was probably nearsighted, not that we could afford an eye exam, much less glasses.
Mia Sheridan
#93. She chose a bottle of sauvignon blanc from the kitchen rack and uncorked it. "These are trying times. There have been others, and there will be more." She poured three glasses. "It's essential that we live while we move through them.
Nora Roberts
#94. The rock is gonna fall on us," he stood and told the class The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will!
Harry Chapin
#95. Some people like to throw objects, such as glasses of water or rocks, but nail painting is more positive. If more world leaders would take it up there would be less overall suffering, in her opinion.
Margaret Atwood
#96. Alright baby." I grab the soup and my purse. "I think I'm ready to go repel a sad boy. I got my ring, my hickey, a naked face, glasses, and conservative hair, unless you also need to pee on my leg to ensure he picks up your scent?
Gisele Walko
#97. I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
Ian Caldwell
#98. I really wanted to support this campaign because I love heart shaped glasses. Seriously though, I've never hit anyone. I'm anti-violence full stop. Against women, against men, against animals. Against anything.
Max Rushden
#99. I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
Lesley Garrett
#100. Anni, amori e bicchieri di vino, nun se contano mai."' '"Years, lovers and glasses of wine; these things must not be counted.
Anthony Capella
