#glass

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#drink #entire #faith #finish #glass

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting. ↗

— Perry Como

#day #doors #everything #fleeting #glass

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury. ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#end #filled #finger #glass #inverted

I feel like 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.' ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#feel #glass #i #i feel #i feel like

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy. ↗

— Rebecca West

#comfort #drew #given #glass #major

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

#figure #glasses #looking #man #natural