Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. — Thomas Carlyle
Mirrors work magic. Repeat the last three words — Chris Voss
The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope. — Leonora Carrington
By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding. — Robert Hooke
Life is a mirror that magnifies. What we see 'out there' is only a duplication of what we are inside. — David Wolfe
The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things. — Dewitt Jones
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together. — George McWhirter
Ever hold your hand over a torch (sorry, a flashlight for you Americans). — Rick Riordan
We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward. — John Paul Caponigro
The Microbe is so very small
You cannot make him out at all,
But many sanguine people hope
To see him through a microscope. — Hilaire Belloc
Short Magnifying Glass Quotes
Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible. — Marcel Marceau
The eye sees what it brings the power to see. — Thomas Carlyle
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. — Owen Feltham
It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible. — Eric Cantona
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. — Robert Bresson
Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen. — Theophile Gautier
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. — George Bernard Shaw
I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore. — Lloyd Banks
Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight — Lao Tzu
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. — Swami Vivekananda
Magnifying Glass Image Quotes
It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful that you have a glass, and there is something in it.
Glasses Quotes
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
I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky. — Gene Wilder
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. — Anton Chekhov
Spilling a glass of wine is the adult equivalent of letting of go a balloon.
The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about. — Dean Martin
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle. — Brad Goreski
Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. — Nhat Hanh
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way. — Dale Chihuly
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. — Bette Davis
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Glass Ceiling Quotes
I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered. — Andrew Cuomo
Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind. — Helen Clark
The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling. — Indra Nooyi
Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. — Hillary Clinton
Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats. — Aretha Franklin
Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace. — Michelle Bachelet
Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken. — Madeleine Albright
Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men. — Jane Harman
I think we've broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our "glass ceiling" that was there for women. There are so many great fighters and we've proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times our fights are the best fights on the card. — Miesha Tate
I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling. — Gina Torres
Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life. — Cassandra Clare
My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you. — Cassandra Clare
I have a fetish for damsels in distress.” “Don’t be sexist.” “Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish. — Cassandra Clare
My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City. — L. Frank Baum
One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us. — Cassandra Clare
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 no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then. — Cassandra Clare
I guess good things come to those who wait. — Kurt Busch
It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something. — Don Cheadle
Dark Glasses Quotes
I never go out during the day without sunglasses. — Tory Burch
It's so ironic. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses. — Madhuri Dixit
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 A. Allen
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. — Janeane Garofalo
Todd Glass has amazing energy on stage. Dave Attell is one of my favorites because he's a one liner comic who is always incredibly in the moment with the audience. As for newer people, I think Adrienne Iapalucci writes some great, dark jokes and Sean Patton has a hilarious voice on stage. — Anthony Jeselnik
Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon. — Alice Hoffman
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. — Rabindranath Tagore
It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room. — Danny Devito
Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections. — Mira Grant
In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level. — Lev S. Vygotsky
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way. — Marquis De Sade
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
When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy. — Anthony Jeselnik
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. — Charles Lindbergh
Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives. — Erwin W. Lutzer
A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands. — Tomas Transtromer
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. — David D. Burns
Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious. — Craig Stone
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art. — Montgomery Clift
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames. — Harry Hill
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass. — John Coltrane
The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty. — Charles R. Swindoll
Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them. — Jane Hirshfield
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. — Miguel de Cervantes
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head — Hermann Broch
Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face. — Tony Hsieh
I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens. — Taylor Swift
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass. — Oscar Nunez
Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive. — Ezra Taft Benson
Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes. — Duane Michals
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses. — Thomas Browne
Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination. — Rudolf Arnheim
Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face. — David Sedaris
Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your heart. — Mia Sheridan
The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible. — Olivia Thirlby
Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision. — Terry Tempest Williams
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. — Theodor Adorno
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. — Moses Mendelssohn
A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could do it. But at a certain point, you need a strong interpretive conviction and, as you say, an "intangible" relationship to what you are doing. — Oliver Harris
Failure is life's magnifying glass. — Simon May
In public, I hardly ever show feelings. That's what happens when everything you do is put under a magnifying glass. But if you've spent some time hiding behind your public mask, and you're back in your own environment, then all that suppressed emotions still has to be set loose. As a result you are going to behave like a nutcase. I think thats why so many people who are famous go nuts. — Robert Pattinson
Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens. — Gore Verbinski
Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell. — Marianne Williamson
The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what’s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It’s like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass. — Naomi Novik
When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive — Ezra Taft Benson
Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in my high school graduation photo. Maybe I haven't got any family or friends. Yes, yes, I know all that. But, strange as it might seem, I'm not entirely dissatisfied with life... I feel pretty much at home with what I am. I don't want to go anywhere. I don't want any unicorns behind fences. — Haruki Murakami
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. — George Eliot
When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass. — Neal Shusterman
Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business. — Fannie Flagg
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