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Stained glass enabled the modern world. -- Kiki Smith
Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass. -- John Fowles
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement -- Agatha Christie
A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral. -- Michael Shermer
My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork. -- Cheech Marin
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves. -- Adrienne Clarkson
Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that. -- Nancy Roman
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. -- Pierre Loti
Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews. -- Bill Hybels
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. -- Kenzaburo Oe
I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos. -- Vanessa Hudgens
I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light. -- Julie Christie
I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos. -- Vanessa Hudgens
My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade. -- Roz Chast
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically. -- James Lasdun
We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section. -- Robert Toombs
This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image. -- Julian Schnabel
Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood. -- Terry Teachout
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining. -- Nathan Fillion
Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwater fiords, creating a unique ecosystem. This is a heavily wooded park, so the water in the streams is stained with tannin, a substance found in plants that makes clean water seem dirty, though it isn't. -- Brian Skerry
My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major. -- Brett Dalton
I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school. -- Brad Holland
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. -- Anne Lamott
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. -- Julie Burchill
I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion. -- Rich Cohen
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious. -- Bayard Taylor
In the course of writing 'First Light,' I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, where I found rooms, stairways, tunnels, and abandoned machines leaking oil. My notebooks show tooth-marks where I gripped them with my teeth while climbing around inside the telescope, and the notebooks are stained with Flying Horse telescope oil. -- Richard Preston
The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well. -- Danny Boyle
I was stained by failure. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The purest white seems stained. -- Laozi
The best manners are stained by haughtiness. -- Claudius Claudianus
Love isn't over when the sheets are stained. -- Ani DiFranco
Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me. -- Yohji Yamamoto
One man's pet-stained carpet is another man's Twister game. -- Emo Philips
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. -- Claudius Claudianus
When our eyes are tear-stained, then our hearts are blood-stained -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
When reality hurts, make sure to soar above the dream-stained sky! -- Munia Khan
The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century. -- Diana Butler Bass
A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true. -- Saul Williams
Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun -- Gayle Forman
When out eyes are tear-stained then our heart is blood-stained as well -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons. -- Chic Murray
If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows. -- Sylvia Plath
God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed. -- Johnny Cash
It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. -- Wilfred Owen
Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly. -- Sara Genn
In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours. -- Izumi Shikibu
In a church of my own we're perfect together I recognize you in the stained glass. -- Heather Nova
What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday? -- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. -- Raymond Chandler
Even when your heart is blue, I'll safely hold it. I really don't mind these indigo-stained hands. -- John Mark Green
Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion. -- Jim Morrison
We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past? -- Jenna Blum
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded. -- Erma Bombeck
For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world. -- Marc Chagall
Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. -- Julia Cameron
Imagine all the people, living life in peace. Well, that's hard to do when you're on this blood stained street. -- Christine Lavin
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. -- James Ellis
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. -- Robert McAfee Brown
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch. -- David Simon
Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works. -- Charles Spurgeon
Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets? -- Rick Riordan
Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year. -- Friedrich Schiller
You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings! -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness. -- Frederick Lenz
Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness. -- Frederick Lenz
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off. -- Alexandra Ivy
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear. -- William Blake
While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value. -- Evan Meekins
PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution. -- Ambrose Bierce
She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing. -- Janet Fitch
I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness. -- Fernando Pessoa
Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior. -- Mimi Sheraton
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure. -- Thomas Paine
For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass. -- Allen Tate
Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture. -- Maggie Stiefvater
For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman! -- Susan Vreeland
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent. -- Ramakrishna
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task." -- Pierre Loti
absencelooks like a lake bed flooded with skysounds like cotton howlingtastes like tear-stained pillowssmells like churning bile and burnt hairfeels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying -- Beth Morey
Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a weekâ??s time. -- Libba Bray
You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility. -- SebastiAn
We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us... -- Marge Piercy
There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up. -- Gretchen Rubin
Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element. -- Samuel Beckett
A few years ago I dropped off the face of the earth. Then I came back the next day to pick it up. Unfortunately, it was stained red with love. -- Jarod Kintz
I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people. -- Boris Yeltsin
When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarletDon't you hate me? he demandedI'd hate me.You just tried to drown yourself, Ash saidYou seem to hate yourself plenty already. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth. -- John Keats
The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror. -- Anais Nin
I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti. -- Tony Campolo
When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light -- Julie Christie
If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate." -- Rob Brezsny
Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying. -- Richard J. Foster
He was dirty, his hair unkempt, his clothes stained with blood. Heroes in stories somehow managed to rescue maidens while looking like court dandies. Next time he went adventuring he'd remember to bring a comb. -- J.V. Jones
Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a church links to a story, brands have the potential to build holistic identities. -- Martin Lindstrom

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