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Quotes About Glass

Her smile could've broken glass.
~ Colum McCann
Todavia, em meio ao alvoroço desses pensamentos, alguma coisa se ergueu, como uma cúpula de mármore branco e liso, que, verdadeira ou imaginária, impressionou tanto sua fervilhante imaginação que Orlando se fixou sobre ela como um enxame de vibrantes libélulas pousa, com evidente satisfação, sobre a redoma de vidro que protege alguma tenra plantinha.
~ Virginia Woolf
Ah, gentle drivers gliding through summer's black nights, what frolics, what twists of lust, you might see from your impeccable highways if Kumfy Kabins were suddenly drained of their pigments and became as transparent as boxes of glass!
~ Vladimir Nabokov
When I'm in social situations I always hold onto my glass. It makes me feel comfortable and secure, and I don't have to shake hands
~ Larry David
Memory is a magpie after chips of colored glass and ribbon rather than the upright accuracy of objective sequence.
~ Larry Woiwode
It's twilight in the vineyard, and the red night rises from a troubled woman's glass of wine.
~ Laura Kasischke
She pressed her fingertips against the glass and thanked him for his insight. Supermax
~ Laura Lippman
The ampolletas consisted of a glass vessel divided into two compartments.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled. I'd finally found something Eric did poorly.
~ Charlaine Harris
Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled. I'd finally found something Eric did poorly.
~ Charlaine Harris
It had all been an illusion, Lucien knew. The buildings, the arches, the sweeping, graceful lines. All this time he had been worshipping a facade of concrete and glass. Lucien
~ Charles Belfoure
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
~ Charles Dickens
And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion.
~ Charles Dickens
little sleek crisp flaxen wig, setting very close to his head: which wig, it is to be presumed, was made of hair, but which looked far more as though it were spun from filaments of silk or glass. His linen, though not of a fineness in accordance with his stockings, was as white as the tops of the waves that broke upon the neighbouring beach, or the specks of sail that glinted
~ Charles Dickens
reality. Death would have been preferable. She slid the glass back into the indentation it had made on her Pottery Barn catalog.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Mon verre s'est brisé comme un éclat de rire
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Looked at from the vantage points offered by fictional stories, slavery, like the glass viewed from above, at first glance, can appear to be merely trivial, two-dimensional, erotic behavior that is not deserving of any serious attention.
~ Guy Baldwin
The two men were still in the habit of taking this last glass together; the depth and endurance of friendship marked as much in their silence as in the words.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
He was polishing the glass with a dead hen.
~ James Herriot
Wonderlawn's lost us for ever. Alis, alas, she broke the glass! Liddell lokker through the leafery, ours is mistery of pain.
~ James Joyce
There was cold sunlight outside the window.
~ James Joyce
he had kept encased in glass hanging from an
~ James Lee Burke
BRADY'S GLASS-WALLED OFFICE is about the size and shape of a votive candleholder.
~ James Patterson
The driver said, "This is bullshit. We're gonna get railroaded here. I want an attorney." The passenger climbed out, spilling glass from the
~ James Patterson