Top 34 Specs Quotes
#1. I was the only boy in our school what had asthma," said the fat boy with a touch of pride. "And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
William Golding
#2. Without my specs on, I think I look really great; then I put them on, and I scream. But at 62, I still think less is better. I use Clarins foundation, but I don't put it everywhere - I hate that covered look - so just on the sides of my nose where the veins have gone bang.
Jane Birkin
#3. Many programmers would prefer to mock in their client library specs, but doing so could result in the service and client passing all specs with hidden failures.
Paul Dix
#4. You don't see anything, do you? You see everything but the goddamn mind; you see all the little specs and crap, but you don't see what goes on, do you?
Edward Albee
#5. The judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.
Eddie Mair
#6. I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.
Peter Capaldi
#7. My subconscious eyes me warily over her tortoiseshell half-moon specs.
E.L. James
#8. Nowadays it seemed like half the technical data on the planet were being stored genetically. Try sequencing a lung fluke and it was even money whether the base pairs you read would code for protein or the technical specs on the Denver sewer system.
Peter Watts
#9. Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.
Jordan Ellenberg
#10. I love her handbag. Inside are papers and her wallet and cigarettes and at the bottom, where she never looks, there is loose change, loose mints, specs of tobacco from her cigarettes. Sometimes I bring the bag to my face, open it and inhale as deeply as I can.
Augusten Burroughs
#11. I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs.
Mo Rocca
#12. I am so small. A billion tons of durosteel and nanometal move through the heavens, and I have never been beyond Mars's atmosphere. They are like specks of silver in an ocean of ink. And I am so much less. But those specs could ravage Mars. They could destroy a moon. Those specks rule the ink.
Pierce Brown
#13. I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.
Peter O'Toole
#14. That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it.
Donna Tartt
#15. I think one of the prophets stuttered when he dictated your specs," Jal said, snickering. "Or the gene-splicer was daydreaming about his high-status trueborn love and he botched your programming.
Karen Sandler
#16. I am seeing that Gandhi is looking through these specs that whether we have made India clean or not, what we have done and what we have done.
Narendra Modi
#17. As I sat here, absorbed in my needlework, the urge to consult the orb overpowered me. I arose, I settled myself before it, and I gazed into its crystalline depths . . . and what do you think I saw gazing back at me?" "An ugly old bat in outsize specs?" Ron muttered under his breath.
J.K. Rowling
#19. I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
Tim Berners-Lee
#20. Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.
Linus Torvalds
#21. All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George Eliot
#22. It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
Tabitha Soren
#23. Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.
Sun Bin
#24. To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
Maajid Nawaz
#26. Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard.
Phil Collins
#27. When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.
Anna Netrebko
#29. That's what I think our jobs as parents are, to educate as much as possible ... I tell them to follow their bliss. The people who follow their bliss in this world tend to be the more happier people.
Art Alexakis
#30. I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
Cam Newton
#32. Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.
Merle Haggard
#33. A man's life is worth much more than any sacrifice, no matter how great. For the greatest, the most just, the noblest cause on earth is the right to live ...
Yasmina Khadra
#34. Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.
Anthony Browne