Eyeglasses famous quotes

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Mother #Play #Eyeglasses

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
-- Bob Ehrlich

#Family #Eyeglasses #Important

A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.
-- George McWhirter

#Smile #Eyeglasses #Together

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.
-- Heinrich Heine

#Eyeglasses #Knowing #Lenses

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.
-- Helena Bonham Carter

#Eyeglasses #Sight #People

I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.
-- Iris Apfel

#Color #Play #Eyeglasses

I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.
-- Iris Apfel

#Years #Eyeglasses #Accessories

And pray, who are you?" Said the Violet blue To the Bee, with surprise, At his wonderful size, In her eyeglass of dew. "I, madam," quoth he, "Am a publican Bee, Collecting the tax Of honey and wax. Have you nothing for me?
-- John B. Tabb

#Summer #Eyeglasses #July

It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind anew set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way.
-- John Seely Brown

#Education #Eyeglasses #People

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
-- Joseph Joubert

#Eyeglasses #Vision #Blur

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
-- Kitty Carlisle

#Glasses #Eyeglasses #Myopic

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
-- Lily Tomlin

#Funny #Sarcastic #Eyeglasses

He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.
-- Mary Matalin

#Eyeglasses #Balls #Looks

Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!
-- Michael Chabon

#Girl #Dark #Eyeglasses

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.
-- Muhammad Iqbal

#Dust #Eyeglasses #Air

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.
-- Ray Kurzweil

#Eyeglasses #Lenses #Computer

By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.
-- Ray Kurzweil

#Reality #Eyeglasses #Electronics

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
-- Steven Wright

#Eyeglasses #Comedy #Streets

Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.
-- Taye Diggs

#Growing Up #Eyeglasses #Nerd

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
-- Virginia Woolf

#Women #Power #Eyeglasses

I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.
-- Mickey Spillane

#Hair #Eyeglasses #Guy

So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human with nature, is the best. We could make a scale with that in mind, and judge any technology by its place on that scale: speech and eyeglasses, say, would rank low; nuclear bombs and coal plants, high.
-- Kirkpatrick Sale

#Technology #Eyeglasses #Judging