Quotes About Bling

#1. The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!

Anna Netrebko

#2. One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.

Kevin McCloud

#3. Pope Francis has stressed humility and austerity - a far cry, according to many, from the predecessor's bling and Ferragamo shoes - those were pretty entertaining. And he's translating all of that into a policy agenda.

Ronan Farrow

#4. Jihad is the Afghan bling.

Aman Mojadidi

#5. To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy

Raquel Cepeda

#6. I don't really listen to the radio too much. I know that one song, "Hotline Bling."

Jesse Plemons

#7. It's a song, I realize, after a second, as it continues blaring. Hotline Bling.

J.M. Darhower

#8. Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.

Vic Chesnutt

#9. My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

Mary J. Blige

#10. EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

Karl Lagerfeld

#11. I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

Taissa Farmiga

#12. The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.

Neil MacGregor

#13. Oi! Bad girl. Maybe I should have led with the fancy collar first." From his other back pocket, he brought forth a pink nylon collar with rhinestones stitched all around. Ooh. Pretty, shiny. Resist the bling. She looked away, and he laughed.

Eve Langlais

#14. Whatever; bling always has something to hide.

Grace Jones

#15. You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

Louis Gossett Jr.

#16. When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.

Emmanuel Jal

#17. I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? When you're tired, you start to over-compensate by wearing too much bling.

Jessie J.

#18. I do wish you girls would reconsider my previous offer. You would be my queens...I could dress you in diamonds from head to toe. The Mole Man has so much bling and no one to share it with.'

Please...don't say bling...ever again.

Jimmy Palmiotti

#19. I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

Andre Leon Talley

#20. You will be remembered more for your bangs in life, than the bling.

Anthony Liccione

#21. The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

Tim Reid

#22. Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

Karl Lagerfeld

#23. My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.

Brian J. White

#24. I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot.

Michael Vartan

#25. I realized how far-reaching the effect of hip hop was when I walked by a jewelry store named Bling in a small, rural town in France. Hip hop has made a huge impact on urban culture. Yet many brands still don't speak to young people in a tone and manner that's representative of them.

Steve Stoute

#26. I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

Candice Olson

#27. I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. I never thought I'd be where I am. I never thought I'd have bling that I bought.

Carol Bartz

#28. Not only a fanatic and an incendiary (two of the insults that dogged Defoe most closely in his lifetime), the author of Robinson Crusoe was also an egregious spiv, and a slave to bling.

Daniel Defoe

#29. Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

Sean Paul

#30. Oh, do shove off, Lady Bling. I was thinking some rather important thoughts before you interrupted me.

Gail Carriger

#31. It's a lot of bling to play with. You got to have the bling.

Serena Williams

#32. The first day of 'Bling Ring,' I was so nervous and freaking out. I'm a know-it-all and was going into a situation where I couldn't predict what would happen.

Katie Chang

#33. I love crazy, gaudy bling.

Phillip Lim

#34. I grew up in Mississippi, and there's no fashion game there. Even in 'Bling Ring,' I had to learn a lot about fashion - you know, the differences between lapels - and it wasn't until we'd wrapped that I really started getting into it.

Israel Broussard

#35. Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check ... is wealthy. "Ah, here you go, Shaq. Go buy yourself a bouncing car. Bling, bling!"

Chris Rock

#36. Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.

Leila Janah

#37. Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?

Isabel Yosito

#38. Bling is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence ... the haves' bleeding the have-nots'.

T.F. Hodge

#39. You need to wear this. Amelia holds up a chunky silver necklace studded with gemstones.
I can't help scrunching up my face. It's one fugly piece of bling.

Leanne Hall

#40. I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

Noel Gallagher

#41. I need to buy you some bling. A big fucking ring or tiara with my name on it so men know to stop flirting with you.

Bijou Hunter

#42. It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

David Bowie

#43. I'm not into caps with lots of diamonds on them, like KP.

James Anderson

#44. Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

Louis Kronenberger

#45. Be content to be what you are; shiny stones and silver bangles only make you look what you really are.

Tiny Tim

#46. It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.

Anthony Liccione

#47. That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

John Donne