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"I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize."
"Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses."
"Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally."
"but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons."
"She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common."
"God is like the ocean and we're like that glass of water. We try to sustain life and do all that the source tells us that we are capable of doing, but if we do it alone, we wither away and collapse instead."
"If you take a glass of water and separate it from its source - the ocean - then pour the water away from its source and ask it to sustain life, it flitters away. It just evaporates. It can't sustain life. That's a metaphor for us when we separate ourselves from our source and believe that God is separate from us."
"But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there."
"My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate."
"It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber."
"I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy."
"[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day."
"The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an artist because my films lose money."
"We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land."
"I point at a window to my left, and it explodes. Particles of glass rain over us. ‘You’ll have to do better than that,' I say."
"She tries to turn too soon, and the ladder smacks into Fernando's shoulder. "Oh! Sorry, Nando." The jolt knocks his glasses askew. He smiles at Christina and takes the glasses off, shoving them into his pocket. "Nando?" I say to him. "I thought the Erudite didn't like nicknames?" "When a pretty girl calls you by a nickname," he says, "it is only logical to respond to it."
"There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with strips of white fat like an evening sky with bands of clouds. There would be some tea ready to be drunk, yellowish golden tea in glasses with silver saucers, giving off a faint fragrance."
"One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water."
"Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect."
"Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify."
