Quotes About Shiny Objects

#1. Things are just that - things. They don't make us who we are. They make us look better on the outside, even when we're hollow on the inside. They're an illusion - the shiny objects that distract us from the really important things.

Chelle Bliss

#2. Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.

Richelle Mead

#3. There's no way of knowing in advance what will get into your work. One collects all the shiny objects that catch the fancy - a great array of them. Some of them you think are utterly useless. I have a large collection of curios of that kind, and every once in a while I need one of them.

Margaret Atwood

#4. Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

Martha Beck

#5. I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

Nic Pizzolatto

#6. The term "flying saucer" seems to have been coined by accident. Arnold told reporters that the nine objects he saw were flat and shiny like a pie pan and that they looked like a little fish flipping in the sun.

Don Lincoln

#7. The two more useless words in the English language - Don't worry.

Mary Higgins Clark

#8. You know, right often, the body is the best thing we've got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!

Allan Gurganus

#9. Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#10. Robots do not celebrate anything. Celebration is an expression of joy, which cannot be mechanized.

Ravindra Shukla

#11. I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it.

Carl Henegan