"The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My dear Olgivanna, she insisted on replacing the lovely canvas and wooden trusses at Taliesin West with steel supports and pink frosted glass. Well, I was too old to care by then. What I decided early on was this: If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."
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"If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities."
"There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine."
"I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican."
"People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong."
"This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture."
"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."
"Wipe your glasses with what you know."
"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."
"Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne."
"The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door."
"Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass."
"Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove."
"He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can."
"I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, "It's impolite; remove your glasses." I said, "Do I ask you to remove your bra?""
"It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames."
"Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another."
"Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze."
"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk."
"Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere."