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― Megan Boyle, selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee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

“All of life seems to me a strange dream about losing things you never had to begin with. About trying to find your glasses when you can't see because you don't have your glasses on.”
― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

“my doggie don't wear glasses
so they're lying when they say
a dog looks like it's owner
aren't they

- My doggie don't wear glasses”
― John Hegley, Can I Come Down Now Dad?

“I experienced a terrible sense of my own mortality as it struck me that during my life I would only remove and replace my glasses a specific number of times. The thought filled me with sombreness to the extent that I began to weep, removing my glasses so that I could wipe my eyes, thus adding one more to whatever the final number would have been; the realisation of which cheered me.

- A spectacular tale”
― John Hegley, Can I Come Down Now Dad?

“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

“Anyway, you're to have four sets- to match jewels, I suppose- white gold, pale gold, yellow gold and rose gold. Can't have your oculars clashing with your bracelets, I suppose. I'll send the 'prentice up with them later. I'm waiting for the frames to cool now."
"If the Princess is not here, you can leave them with her handmaiden, Iris," Lady Thalia put in, and came around to take a look at the Sophont's handiwork. She blinked. "Good heavens. That is 'much' more flattering!"
"Yes, it is," Balan agreed with a lopsided smile. "Now you can see what pretty eyes she has. Well, I'm off! Lady Thalia, it was a pleasure meeting you. Princess, a delight to serve you!"
As soon as he was out of the room, Andie was out of the chair. Picking up the skirt of her gown this time to keep it from tripping her, she ran to her bedroom to peer into the little mirror over her dressing table.
The difference was astounding. The old oculars had been small, vaguely rectangular, and had cut across her face like a slash mark. These were large, circular and, for the first time, did not obscure her eyes. If anything, they made her eyes look bigger, like those of a young animal, soft and giving an impression of innocence and vulnerability. The frame, of white gold, was very simple and polished, somehow less fussy than Balan's frame of twisted wire had been.
"Gracious!" Iris exclaimed. "What a difference!"
"You don't think they look-well- 'owlish'?" Lady Thalia asked, a little doubtfully.
"Not a bit!" Iris declared. "Just look how big they make her eyes look! And 'you've' heard all those daft poets, my Lady, going on about a girl's eyes supposed to be like a doe's, or big pools of water!”
― Mercedes Lackey, One Good Knight

“The optometry industry profits immensely from most people’s blindness to the fact that civilization has made eye exercises a necessity for most people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We've reached the age where we can't function without our glasses. Especially if they're empty.”
― Nitya Prakash

“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