- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Glass Quotes
Fragile, functional, and everywhere.
These quotes touch glass from several angles: a demanding job spent polishing it, its place among synthetic materials replacing older building methods, and its everyday appearance at breakfast. For related themes of everyday routine, see Drink.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.
- Decorated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually don't throw around the word 'fabulous,' but how else to describe buildings decorated with mirrored water dragons, serpents tiled in colored glass, and hundreds - no, thousands, no, tens of thousands - of gold-leaf Buddhas? Luang Prabang has more than 47,000 residents, but its Buddha population must be ten times that.
- Honey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonful of honey before bed.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills.
- Each Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020