#glass

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bedroom #bought #distracted #end #exposed

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury. ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#end #filled #finger #glass #inverted

I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt at that had been cynical and messed up. I gave it a go again. Find one lost sheep. The angels rejoice. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#college #cynicism #dating #faith #glass-girl

I feel like 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.' ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#feel #glass #i #i feel #i feel like

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#big #came #come #compliment #down

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy. ↗

— Rebecca West

#comfort #drew #given #glass #major

They don't know they're living in a glass house. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#house #know #living

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

#figure #glasses #looking #man #natural

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. ↗

— Steven Wright

#glasses #i #out #prescription #ran

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs. ↗

— Donnie Yen

#chinese #does #gangs #glasses #growing