Quotes About Glitter

#1. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth
we call it life.

Anne Carson

#2. Drink the sun's warmth and the moon's icy glitter, and taste that which the dead and the yet-to-be-born cannot: the potency of this world.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#3. My head feels like a snow globe that's been shaken, and glitter is swirling around in it like unmoored stars.

Laini Taylor

#4. She wanted to be with him, and though the realization frightened her, it also set her heart racing with anticipation. When she was with Nick, she was a different woman. Some of his glitter fell onto her and made her feel beautiful and sparkly and more alive.

Kristin Hannah

#5. We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

F. Sionil Jose

#6. FEAR NOT, said a voice from the glitter. I AM ZEUS, LORD OF THE SKY. YOU LOOK FINE, GIRL. DO YOU WANT TO HANG OUT?

Rick Riordan

#7. Humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter, rain.

Jenny Downham

#8. You know you're putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.

Drew Barrymore

#9. She's a lovely young woman from upstate New York, but you should be very thankful for those romance-novel-reading, tween-movie-watching women. They've had a big hand in making our town a success." "And Julian's love life, once he learned to spray himself with glitter.

Kristen Painter

#10. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. While this might seem a bit abstract, these numbers are not arbitrary. They are symbols, which represent pieces of paper, which represent pieces of gold. Gold doesn't represent anything; its value is inherent in its glitter.

Colin MacLaughlin

#12. Later that night she picked the polish off
with her front teeth until the bed you shared
for seven years seemed speckled with glitter
and blood.

Warsan Shire

#13. Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen.

Katrina Monroe

#14. All that is gold does not glitter...

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Bergen Evans

#16. Technically, if a girl wants to sparkle she can put on glitter but I think the correct answer would be a smile because no one pays attention to your short when you have a nice smile on your face.

Demi Lovato

#17. Do the one thing that can render you really happy: cast aside and trample under foot all the things that glitter outwardly and are held out to you a by another or as obtainable from another;

Seneca.

#18. The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

Esi Edugyan

#19. The stars were his pleasure, but tonight they did not comfort him; they did not make him remember that what happens to us on earth is lost in the endless shine of eternity. Gazing at them-the stars-he thought of the jewelled guitar and its worldly glitter.

Truman Capote

#20. I think once you're past 30 you shouldn't wear a lot of glitter.

Chloe Sevigny

#21. I've been working on my craft for a long time. People never want to let go of the whole 'Glitter,' ... I'm like, 'It's eight years later, people. Let's move on.

Mariah Carey

#22. Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

Mark Twain

#23. I flicked the glitter off. Whatever, that might've come from anywhere. Maybe I'd walked by an art class at some point. Maybe I'd accidentally brushed against a slutty freshman.

Cherry Cheva

#24. All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#25. If something doesn't look right, throw some glitter on it.

Adam Lambert

#26. She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.

Joy Williams

#27. Do you love me?" he asked.
I fell silent.
"For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

Sharon Shinn

#28. Anyone can wear glitter, even a woman in her 60s. It's all about techniques. Instead of applying glitter all over the face, you can just add a little to the inner corner of your eyes or on your brow bone, or even on your Cupid's bow. It just adds this magical element to your makeup.

Michelle Phan

#29. Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago

Tom Baker

#30. We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

David Almond

#31. Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?

Pete Doherty

#32. It is my mission as a pilgrim to act as a messenger expressing spiritual truths. It is a task which I accept joyfully, and I desire nothing in return, neither praise or glory, nor the glitter of silver and gold. I simply rejoice to be able to follow the whisperings of a Higher Will.

Peace Pilgrim

#33. There is only darkness, starless and complete. The waves glitter like a million dull knives.

Iain Banks

#34. Life is ephemeral like the journey of a dew drop. We must not forget to glitter.

Debasish Mridha

#35. Lucky! I can only eat glitter and rainbows. Darn my sensitive stomach!

Bob Shea

#36. [On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

Dorothy Parker

#37. I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending ...

Carew Papritz

#38. All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

John Desmond Bernal

#39. He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#40. Surely Tillie knew glitter on wrinkled cleavage was a sin.

Julie Anne Lindsey

#41. Little girls aren't all born with glitter shooting out of their assholes. Some us have personality, thank you very much.

C.M. Stunich

#42. Sea, the limpidity of your wave is awaiting my gaze. I fix my eyes upon you, and you glitter, without limit. I wish for you, through all eternity.

Cheikh Hamidou Kane

#43. The sword glitters not because the swordsman set out to make it glitter but because he is fighting for his life and therefore moving it very quickly.

C.S. Lewis

#44. Never underestimate the power of glitter.

Katie Klein

#45. Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#46. I grab
a small container
of glitter.
Because this day,
this wonderful,
beautiful,
glorious day
just wouldn't be complete
without a little,
or a lot, of
g i t r
l t e

Lisa Schroeder

#47. True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.

Debasish Mridha

#48. Glitter is cool because that's like glam rock, but rhinestones need to die out.

Kemp Muhl

#49. Anyway, our fellow apes eat insects out of each other's fur; maybe bath bombs and body glitter are the modern human equivalent.

Emily Nagoski

#50. Felt SO insanely happy I could just ... VOMIT sunshine, rainbows, confetti, glitter and ... um ... those yummy little Skittles thingies!

Rachel Renee Russell

#51. I love LA! The freeways, the cars, the smog, the glitter, the glitz, the sleaze, the prostitutes, the poison that falls from the sky.

Donald O'Donovan

#52. All sense, all judgement, overthrown by a h-dropping, glottal-stopping glitter pirate, and I didn't have to care.

Alexis Hall

#53. Their names are Death, Disease, War, and Sparkle-Darkle Glitter-tits," Sophie said. "They're the four little ponies of the Apocalypse.

Christopher Moore

#54. Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.

Manly P. Hall

#55. Glitter is like ... .little flecks of brilliance caught in a tube.

Katie Klein

#56. When the song is over, the mikes turned off, the lights dimmed, all the glitter and glamour shed, and I am left alone with my own thoughts, free to contemplate the paths that led me to where I am today, I pause to give thanks.

CeCe Winans

#57. For me ... it's the only life
That I've ever known
And love is only one ...
Fine star ... away
Even though the living
Is sometimes laced with lies ...
It's alright ...
The feeling remains
Even after the glitter fades

Stevie Nicks

#58. Your father's the glitter but I'm the glue.

Kelly Corrigan

#59. I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

Gary Glitter

#60. Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.

Niecy Nash

#61. Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be.

Thomm Quackenbush

#62. It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

Herman Melville

#63. True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

Frances Harper

#64. Let the dust take me when the adventure's done and I shall make the dust glitter for all eternity with my marvelous fury.

Gore Vidal

#65. I don't think people know me at all. At the end of the day, if you see me in sequins and glitter out at a club, you might think that's all there is. But, you know, it's just glitter. My friends who I've known since I was 17 - they know who I am.

Kelis

#66. Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Aeschylus

#67. Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such things, but when they argued the glitter of all he could not give her had sometimes been flung back hard in his face ...

Robert Galbraith

#68. What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about.

Lou Doillon

#69. I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

Charlie Watts

#70. Oh, I've got glitter in my hair. That's not all that's in my hair, I'll tell you that. I glue it on every morning, whether I need to or not.

Mitt Romney

#71. The difference between a prince and a toad is overrated because they are both just boys underneath the glitter and the warts.

Lauren Bjorkman

#72. Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

Daniel Handler

#73. I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill
Such a bright gold under my windowsill!
Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still?
Bless me! It's a daffodil!

Celia Thaxter

#74. Basically Britney Spears' video is like a three an a half minute version of Glitter.

Christian Finnegan

#75. After working fourteen-hour shifts in the mines, inhaling so much nickel they sneezed silver glitter, none could have expected a private performance from the prima ballerina of the Kirov.

Anthony Marra

#76. There's a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning

Jimmy Somerville

#77. She smiled at the idea of being a captive princess in the rookeries, or a restrained mouse in the glitter of the ton.

Michelle Diener

#78. It's all about self-expression; you know, if you feel like a troll then you should look like a troll. It doesn't matter what you look like. I mean, if you have a hunchback just throw a little glitter on it, honey, and go dancing!

James St. James

#79. Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death

T. S. Eliot

#80. When that day of jubilee finally arrives, all of us will be there with you, walking, heads held high, crowns a-glitter, because we do have a right to be here.

Edwidge Danticat

#81. The door swung open and three pint-sized...hookers...stared up at him, their glitter-glossed smiles slowly disappearing from their over painted faces.

Samanthe Beck

#82. Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.

Ted Hughes

#83. You're sarcastic twelve hours a day, but you're almost never spiteful. You have a good heart under all the glitter.

Cassandra Clare

#84. We'd have to start wearing long wigs and eye shadow and glitter pants." "Okay, okay, well, that's life,

Kim Gordon

#85. Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.

Edith Wharton

#86. As far as Elijah Prince was concerned, gay weddings could choke on their own cheery goddamned glitter and die.

Heidi Cullinan

#87. I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.

Martin Gore

#88. It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.

George S. Patton

#89. Hill tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun,
And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run;
Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air;
Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

John Clare

#90. There are knives that glitter like altars
In a dark church
Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
To be healed.
There's a woden block where bones are broken,
Scraped clean
a river dried to its bed

Charles Simic

#91. What I lack in brilliance, I more than make up for in glitter

Josh Stern

#92. I do think vajazzles need to stop. The whole thing of glitter-ising your cell phone and your purse and your body needs to stop.

Kemp Muhl

#93. I need another dick in this house and soon before the whole fuckin' place is painted pink and I slip on a glitter pen and break my neck.

Kristen Ashley

#94. And then I saw the worst thing I'd ever seen
in my life: Trenton in a man thong,
covered in about ten pounds of body
glitter. He had on a cheap, yellow wig,
and Cami was laughing her head off,
cheering him on.

Jamie McGuire

#95. It's not the glitter, but the love, that makes things beautiful.

Debasish Mridha

#96. All evening long, real snow would fall from the ceiling to glitter on the lashes of dancing girls and ardent boys, but Neve and the Dreamer didn't linger.
They had other things to do: *all* of them. All the things, dreamed and undreamed, in the depth and breadth of the whole spinning world.

Laini Taylor

#97. I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you can follow in life.

Frederick Lenz

#98. Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

Evelyn Waugh

#99. I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'

Nancy O'Dell

#100. Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.

John Burdett