#glass

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#clothes #come #glasses #i #i love

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#slavery #experience

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. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#beads #board #came #directed #dozen

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ↗

— Jean Paul

#clearer #escaped #hourglass #life #more

Once you drink one glass, you want another. ↗

— John Forsythe

#drink #glass #once #want #you

Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #funny #ghost-town #humor #michael-glass

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#all night #code #computer #computer science #glasses

To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass. ↗

— Grace Metalious

#drives #glass #like #sex #talk

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#athletic #complete #geek #glasses #grade