Glasses Quotes

“Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?"

"I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father."

"Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.”
― Andy Warhol

“Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?"
Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress

“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses”
― Megan Boyle, selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee

“Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out.”
― Mira Grant, Feed

“Rose had the sort of eyes that manage perfectly well with things close by, but entirely blur out things far away. Because of this even the brightest stars had only appeared as silvery smudges in the darkness. In all her life, Rose had never properly seen a star.
Tonight there was a sky full.
Rose looked up, and it was like walking into a dark room and someone switching on the universe.”
― Hilary McKay, Indigo's Star

“If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“People who look good in glasses mustn't die. And you look wonderful in glasses.”
― Torii Nagomu, 境界の彼方 [Kyoukai no Kanata]

“Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.”
― Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

“Really, nobody was there?” I asked.
“Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“She scans the field for the boys. It's a blur. She should probably get glasses, probably should've gotten glasses a long time ago. She would never tell anyone this, but she enjoys the distance being a blur.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“Why don't you pop on those sultry little glasses again, and I'll see if I can keep my knickers on.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Kiss of the Black Flame

“It was probably the stupid glasses. How were you supposed to see anything wearing mirrored sunglasses underground? Any they were so nineties, they weren't even retro yet.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“And then, with care, Justin put the second lens in, giving me my eyes. Turning to the mirror on the wall, I saw myself, unblocked by glass and wire. I felt beautiful, changed—freed from the identity of the “girl who wears glasses.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Like that of the house, the all too common overuse of the neck leads to the underuse of the muscles of the eye.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Your glasses won't help you to see into the future”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“You don't need glasses to see your future.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“When we would work with the high powered industrial sodium LASER, we would only wear a pair of LASER eye glasses. We were not told that it potentially could affect the skin.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“She took off her glasses and put them in my hand. 'You know, without these, I can't see anything. What's funny is that it's like no one else can see me either. Isn't it strange? I kind of feel invisible.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“I look at the sun all the time and have no eye issues, other than those associated with aging. I wear glasses for reading at age 54. I would never look at the sun through glasses, binoculars or telescopes though, as that is really dangerous! Anything that causes magnification or increased solar radiation levels (such as reflections) is bad for the eyes.”
― Steven Magee

“The human eye may require glasses for clear vision, but not the mind's eye.”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“মানুষের চোখের পরিষ্কার দৃষ্টির জন্য চশমার প্রয়োজন হতে পারে, কিন্তু মনের চোখের নয়।”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Glasses for reading minds are intuition.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“You‬‭ take‬‭ off‬‭ your‬‭ glasses‬‭ to‬‭ try‬‭ to‬‭ appear‬‭ more‬‭ attractive‬, but‬‭ then‬‭ you‬‭ can't‬‭ see,‬‭ and‬‭ you're‬‭ in‬‭ love‬‭ with‬‭ a‬‭ blurry‬ girl.‬”
― GLEN NESBITT, We're Off

“I have this fear. I am so myopic that, without glasses, the hand I see at the end of my arm is blurred. What if I were to find myself one day in some bad place--in a prison or some kind of detention camp, say, or forced to flee for my life--and then somehow I lost my glasses, or they got broken or taken away? What then?”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

“God, her face.
Richie was wrong.
She wasn’t cute—she was…gorgeous.
Dani had always been pretty because of her laugh and the way she was so carefree. Her Dani-ness made her impossible to look away form.
The girl I’d knocked down in the hallway, though—she was a dropdead stunner. All that wavy blond hair, those big brown eyes and black glasses…it…worked”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“Bed, glasses off, and all's
ramshackle, streaky, weird
for the near-sighted, just
a foot away.
The light's
still on an instant. Here
are the blurred titles, here
the books are blue hills, browns,
greens, fields, or color.”
― Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead

“How to tackle pervert glasses? Grab it from the perv's face, throw it to the ground, and stomp on it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human