Quotes About Glass

I spent the next two hours down there, first sitting in the sand, sifting and swirling, watching the grains fall from the webs of my dusty hands and then walking down by the water, collecting those little pieces of beach glass. There were more of them than I thought. They were surprisingly strong. I tried to snap one in half to see if the inside was still shiny and clear like regular glass, but it wouldn't break. Its scuffy exterior was like scar tissue. (67)

Wie lieb und luftig perlt die Blase Der Witwe Klicko in dem Glase.

Another pop, this time followed by the tinkle of glass sprinkling on the floor.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

Struggling against his weight, reeling backward, I knocked the fishbowl from its pedestal and it crashed to the floor. Goldfish flopping all around my feet, amidst the shards of broken glass. Someone banged on the door. In my terror I let go of the body and it fell back into the tub with a hideous slap and a spray of water and I woke up.

What's so unpleasant about being drunk? Ask a glass of water!

Two contestants would sit either side of a table, with a glass in front of each of them.

For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house!

The air is dry and light and its effect on the mind is similar to that of a glass of Champagne before dinner.

The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.

Just before the tunnel's entrance, the Peugeot smashed the Citroën's left taillight, shattering glass.

The worst bar fights I ever saw were in London. I saw a guy break a pint glass in another guy's face in a club in the Eighties. It was a gay club, too.

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.

My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.

When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole.

I went to a party in Ibiza in 1984 in this house built into the side of a cliff with glass walls. It was the most dramatic thing I'd ever seen. There was a fountain that ran through the house and off the edge of the cliff. If you've ever seen the Peter Sellers film 'The Party,' it was the spitting image of that.

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

I have serious medical support when Im filming 'Grantchester'. Theyre super-cautious with me - and all I do is lift a blooming magnifying glass.

Her teeth had the nice shiny look that comes from standing all night in a glass of solution.

I went to the door and looked out. The cool night breeze was blowing peacefully down the hall. No excited neighbors hung out of doorways. A small gun had gone off and broken a pane of glass, but noises like that don't mean much any more.

She brought the glass over. Bubbles rose in it like false hopes.

While discussing the monster: It sounds like the combination of water being poured into a glass, Miss Hawkline said, A dog barking and the muttering of a drunk parrot. And very, very loud. I think we're going to need the shotgun for this one, Cameron said.

I walked home past the glass whiskers of the houses, reflecting the downward rushing waterfalls of night.

The great vault over our heads was gradually filled with clarity like a glass with wine.