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Quotes About Glasses

When we reached the lobby outside the office, moving like a pair of power walkers--no running in the halls of Green Pastures because there was too much chance of knocking over one of the many ethereal, artistic types wandering around in hip glasses with the wrong prescription... (39)
~ Susan Juby
I'm a librarian in town,' she began. 'You sure about that?' The words popped out before he could stop them. Annabelle raised her eyebrows. 'Fairly. It's my job and so far no one has told me to go away when I show up for work.' smooth, Stryker, he thought, very smooth. 'I was expecting someone wearing glasses. You know. Because librarians read a lot.' The raised eyebrows turned into a frown. 'You need to get out of the barn more.
~ Susan Mallery
I wear glasses, have a big scar, I sing loud, and I am blond. I'm sorry!
~ Anastacia
If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.
~ Kenny G
I saw an ancient man appear on the porch, wearing a huge red bow tie, a blue oxford shirt, khakis, and red suspenders. He had on little round glasses. He looked like Orville Redenbacher, the popcorn guy. He looked insane in that way of people who put great effort into choosing ridiculous clothing. I prayed this was not the doctor. "I'm the doctor!" he said, waving to the children.
~ Kevin Wilson
But lately, when I'm drunk, I feel a hostility that I've never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut that makes me want to yell until my face is red, knock over glasses with the back of my hand, and kick people I don't know in the shins.
~ Koren Zailckas
The panel flew open and the person tumbled out in a heap in front of me, right on his face! My God: it was Joey Ramone, all six-plus feet of him! The lanky lead singer got up without a word, replaced his glasses and mumbled something unintelligible before shuffling away even as I offered ab apology to his disappearing back.
~ Carter Alan
The panel flew open and the person tumbled out in a heap in front of me, right on his face! My God: it was Joey Ramone, all six-plus feet of him! The lanky lead singer got up without a word, replaced his glasses and mumbled something unintelligible before shuffling away even as I offered an apology to his disappearing back
~ Carter Alan
I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?
~ J. M. Coetzee
One of my ongoing projects is to expand third-eye technology whereby two people can watch two different things on a screen or type in two different languages on the same surface - all they have to do is wear a pair of hi-tech glass spectacles.
~ Pranav Mistry
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
~ T. E. Hulme
Emotion-enabled wearable glasses can help individuals who are visually impaired read the faces of others, and it can help individuals on the autism spectrum interpret emotion, something that they really struggle with.
~ Rana el Kaliouby
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.
~ Roddy Doyle
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
To go back home was to play with impressions in this way, the way I played with the first pair of glasses I had, looking at a world now sharp and small and not quite real, now standard in size and real but blurred.
~ V.S. Naipaul
his eyes, behind his glasses, were like the eyes of a dying a man who looks everywhere for healing.
~ James Baldwin
his eyes, behind his glasses, were like the eyes of a dying man who looks everywhere for healing.
~ James Baldwin
I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
~ Kitty Carlisle
Most of my childhood is a big blur, 'cause I needed better glasses.
~ Wendy Liebman
I'm really proud of being part of that whole geek/chic, girl nerds, glasses are sexy and all of that because I think it's true. In America, I don't know about in other places, but there is this mythology about the way a woman is supposed to be and look and act and that's what makes them sexy. And I love being the alternative to that.
~ Kirsten Vangsness
The nice thing about putting on your glasses in the dark is that you know you could see better if it were light, but since it is dark the glasses make no difference at all.
~ Nicholson Baker
What notion did you have of Canada when you came? Mistry smile delicately, the face behind the trimmed beard and glasses like that of a student. I thought it would complete me.
~ Noah Richler
His Highness looks at Denny and says, "Those glasses you're wearing, do you need them?" "Only to see with," Denny says.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
During the Cold War of the 1950s, American spies were issued eyeglasses with thick, clunky frames. If captured, they were trained to casually chew the curved earpieces, where fatal doses of cyanide were cast inside the plastic. It's these same horn-rimmed suicide glasses, the wrangler says, that inspired the look of Buddy Holly and Elvis Costello. All those young hipsters wearing death on their nose.
~ Chuck Palahniuk