Glitter Quotes - Page 7

• When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

  Piers Anthony

  Sometimes, Guilty, Weak

  Piers Anthony (1989). “Bio of an Ogre: The Autobiography of Piers Anthony to Age 50”, Ace Books

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• 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

  Mirrors, Desire, Sides

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• Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Motivational, Drinking, Beer

  The Devil's Dictionary

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• Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Beautiful, Light, Cities

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• More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas ... Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carols. Dreading the arrival of Christmas cards from people they have forgotten to send a card to. Unable to bear yet another family get-together with Auntie Mary puking up in the corner after sampling too much of the punch. You see in the airports the triumphant glitter in the eyes of people who are leaving it all behind, including the hundredth rerun of Miracle on 34th Street.

  M.C. Beaton

  Eye, Airports, Years

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• Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

  Aldous Huxley

  Men

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• After the urine is collected over a couple of days, it's dumped into space, which is beautiful to watch because the urine freezes into a glitter of ice crystals shimmering in the sun.

  Mike Mullane

  Beautiful, Couple, Ice

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• 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

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Wonderful

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• The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had.

  Fady Joudah

  Meaningful, Integrity, Stronger

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

  Edith Wharton

  Summer, Moon, Sky

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.188, Xist Publishing

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• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  Edith Wharton

  Criticism, Weak Points, Critics

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Life, Wind, Magic

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• Go insane go insane, throw some glitter, make it rain...!

  Kesha

  Rain, Insane

  Song: Blow, Album: I Am The Dance Commander + I Command You To Dance:The Remix Album, 2011

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

  Pete Doherty

  Glasses, Broken, Broken Glass

  New Musical Express, November 2005.

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• All that glitters is not hovery.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Scott Westerfeld (2013). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.5, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.

  John D. MacDonald

  Maintaining, Structure, Heavy

  John D MacDonald (1985). “Deep Blue Goodbye”, Fawcett

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• And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Desire, Trying

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.411, e-artnow

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• You are everything that's ever been my favourite thing," she wanted to tell him. "You're my love song, my birthday cake, the sound of ocean waves and French words and a baby's laugh. You're a snow angel, crème brulée, a kaleidoscope filled with glitter. I love you and you'll never catch up, because I've gotten a head start and my heart is racing at light speed.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Song, Baby, Ocean

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• I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper’s come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don’t know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Thinking, Snow, Secret

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time.

  John Green

  Morning, Fire, Dragons

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.4, A&C Black

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Hands, Bayonets

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1919). “The Conduct of Life: Nature and Other Essays”

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

  Esi Edugyan

  Kids, Crystals, Strange

  Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.160, Macmillan

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• All is not gold that glitters,
  Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sweet, Glasses, Gold

  Oliver Goldsmith (2012). “She Stoops to Conquer”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

  Charles Baxter

  Shining, Midwest, Dull

  Charles Baxter (2001). “The feast of love”, Vintage

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• I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.

  Janette Rallison

  Twilight, Thinking, Hair

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