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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. -- PJ Harvey
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. -- Joseph Joubert
I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that. -- Kitty Carlisle
Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. -- Bob Ehrlich
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. -- Epictetus
I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out. -- Steven Wright
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. -- Henny Youngman
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. -- Albert Einstein
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. -- Alexander Pope
By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses. -- Ray Kurzweil
Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. -- Muhammad Iqbal
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. -- Jean Cocteau
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
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less. -- Lily Tomlin
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
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. -- Fred Allen
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. -- James Lafferty
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses. -- Sara Paretsky
I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster. -- Amanda Peet
I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late. -- Mitch Hedberg
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
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. -- Albert Einstein
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
Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses. -- Taye Diggs
In the future, eyeglasses see all directions simultaneously.To be able to use hemiscope, eyes and brain need to practice. -- Toba Beta
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together. -- George McWhirter
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
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
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
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
Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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