Cotton Candy Quotes

• To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Real, Track, Judgement

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• I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.

  Margaret Atwood

  Air, Sugar, Red

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cotton candy. Like eating a cloud of diabetes.

  Dana Gould

  Clouds, Cotton, Eating

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Aug 13, 2013

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• I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Rainy Day, Thinking, Air

  Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 2002.

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• Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.

  Jose Andres

  Men, Most Amazing, Form

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• Cotton candy is the perfect snack for when I'm in the mood to eat dry, scratchy fabric.

  Demetri Martin

  Snacks, Perfect, Dry

  FaceBook post by Demetri Martin from Apr 09, 2013

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• But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.

  Chris LeDoux

  Morning, Clouds, Sky

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• I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

  Robert Redford

  Weekend, Cynical, Way

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• I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

  Anne Hathaway

  Home, Thinking, Ideas

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• Not everyone can or will love you. You could run a cotton candy and unicorn farm and someone's gonna think you're an asshole. Everyone's fighting their own battle and it often has nothing to do with you.

  Kathryn Budig

  Running, Love You, Fighting

  ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

  Jodi Picoult

  Air, Would Be, Stories

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.

  Steve Carell

  Anchorman, Guy, Said

  "Fictional character: Brick Tamland". "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. ‘Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.

  Harry Crews

  Zoos, Book, Writing

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• The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.

  Misha Collins

  Laughing, Sugar, Comedy

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Best Years Of Your Life, People

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “At Wit's End”, p.142, Fawcett

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• Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

  David Levithan

  Weapons, Shields, Compass

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.26, Egmont UK

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• If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

  B. J. Novak

  Basketball, Reality, People

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.145, Vintage

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• Seth was a wonderful kisser. He gave the kind of kisses that melted into your mouth and filled you with sweetness. They were like cotton candy.

  Richelle Mead

  Kissing, Mouths, Kind

  Lynsay Sands, Jackie H. Kessler, Richelle Mead, Hannah Howell, Jackie Kessler, Richelle Mead, Hannah Howell, Lynsay Sands (2008). “Eternal Lover”, p.386, Kensington Books

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• For a while I thought I was the dragon. I guess I can tell you that now. And, for a while, I thought I was the princess, cotton candy pink, sitting there in my room, in the tower of the castle, young and beautiful and in love and waiting for you with confidence but the princess looks into her mirror and only sees the princess, while I’m out here, slogging through the mud, breathing fire, and getting stabbed to death. Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero. You get magic gloves! A fish that talks! You get eyes like flashlights!

  Richard Siken

  Beautiful, Hero, Princess

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Lonely, Real, Cities

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• If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with heart-shaped sunglasses and cotton candy hair; if Los Angeles is this woman, then the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister. The teenybopper sister snaps bug stretchy pink bubbles over her tongue and checks her lipgloss in the rearview mirror, . . . Teeny plays the radio too loud and bites her nails, wondering if the glitter polish will poison her.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Heart, Mirrors, Hair

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• Advising the average person to not concern herself with calories but instead to pay attention to hunger triggers and eating foods rick in nutrients--well, it's a wonderful concept. I also love the thought of unicorns jumping over cotton candy rainbows. I'm even considering taking up basketball to see if it makes me taller. Come on already! Suggesting that someone who struggles with his weight does not need to think about calories is as risky as suggesting you not look at price tags the next time you're in the market for a car.

  Chalene Johnson

  Love, Basketball, Struggle

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