Quotes About Glitter And Gold

#1. Fucking sympathy. Give him anger. Give him fear. Give him fuzzy-assed unicorns that shit glitter and gold-- just don't give him sympathy. Sympathy sucked a giant sack.

Abbie Roads

#2. Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

John Cheever

#3. Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

Voltaire

#4. Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.

Ibn Ata Allah

#5. I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

Sinead O'Connor

#6. All that glitters is sold as gold.

Ogden Nash

#7. Even though on the outside we glittered like gold, inside we were almost as black as coal. Sometimes the glitter people saw was only the shattered pieces reflecting among the broken glass.

Tracy Krimmer

#8. It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

Arthur Ashe

#9. We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Barry Gibb

#10. For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

Nelson Algren

#11. 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

#12. In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nizami Ganjavi

#13. We all have that thing, you know? That one thing that is calming for us. The one thing that, even when your world feels hollow, can make you feel whole. So, as silly as it is, mine is gold glitter. It's my happy.

Harper Sloan

#14. Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold
I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe ...

Nas

#15. What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

Francis Quarles

#16. I can't imagine working without and audience.

Bea Arthur

#17. I don't think there's any loneliness greater than the loneliness to be found in a bad marriage. In solitary confinement, everyone knows you're lonely and feels sorry for you. In a bad marriage loneliness is your darkest secret, one you dare not even share with your spouse.

Daniel Quinn

#18. What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

Lauren Oliver

#19. Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. He was dropped under a streetlamp, the only person left on the bus. A patch of mauled light. Gritty pavement, scarred with a million cigarette burns. Weeds and spit and oil. Place like this, the only glitter was the knife just before it sank in. Place like this, there wasn't any gold.

Rupert Thomson

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#24. The earliest movies that I loved were French movies and Italian movies. I grew up watching those kind of movies and often find the truest looks at human nature - you can find them in another country's movies.

Lucy Fisher

#25. I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.

Edward W. Said

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

John Desmond Bernal

#27. 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

#28. True, I am drunk, and small, and damp, but mistake not my moistness for weakness, although there's an argument to be made for that, as well.

Christopher Moore

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

#30. 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

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.

Hinton Rowan Helper