Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Cocteau

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Joseph Joubert

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

Kitty Carlisle

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

Mary Matalin

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

Mickey Spillane

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

Heinrich Heine

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.

James Lafferty

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

Julian Sands

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.

Ray Kurzweil

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

Tom Shannon

Our respective governments have very different visions for the hemisphere.

Glen Tullman

Our vision is to become indispensable to physicians.

Lester Snow

We need a different long-term vision for the Delta.

Bill Bradley

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

Charles R. Swindoll

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

Charles R. Swindoll

Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.

Bill Hybels

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Bill Hybels

It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.

Bill Hybels

You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.

Dai Junliang

Regional borderline uncertainties had long existed in China, resulting in many regional disputes. In previous Chinese atlas, 70 to 80 percent of the borderlines were marked in broken lines as an expedient to blur the border controversy.

Tim Sampson

It is not OK to blur the distinction.

Robin Lanier

I think that ultimately the Internet and the brick-and-mortars will be very synergistic, ... It is only a matter of time that Internet companies open stores. We have seen catalogers open stores, like J. Crew. The lines will blur and the Internet will just be one more store.

Gary Hall

I was thirsty all the time, I was urinating frequently and I had blurred vision.

Grant Achatz

My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.

Lisa Brown

It is a disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms range from blurred vision, blindness, numbness and tingling, paralysis and cognitive issues. It's not a fatal disease but it is devastating.

Wilfred Owen

Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's disc.Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.But may thy heart-beat kiss it, night and day,Until the name grow blurred and fade away.

Annika Sorenstam

Last year was a blur with all I was going through (off the course) and sometimes I don't know how I managed to stay focused when I was inside the ropes,

Neal Asher

When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull.