Glitter Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  Fall, Missing, Bangs

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.

  Laozi

  Humility, Compassion, Views

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

  John Desmond Bernal

  Gold, May, Chemistry

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• In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content with the way they are, endlessly repeating themselves, endlessly renewed. When man interferes with the Tao, the sky becomes filthy, the earth becomes depleted, the equilibrium crumbles, creatures become extinct. The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as stone.

  Laozi

  Humility, Compassion, Men

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• Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles - this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

  Freeman Dyson

  Stars, Rocks, Hands

  "The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb". Documentary film, 1981.

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• With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Balance, Weak, Lending

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

  Adam Lambert

  Looks, Ifs

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• To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

  Mary Astell

  Running, Party, May

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• Strong women only marry weak men.

  Bette Davis

  Girly, Strong Women, Weak Man

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• 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

  Stars, Light, Dust

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• Dear Alec and Magnus, This is the first postcard of five. Don't freak out or anything, but I need you to send me $150,000 to cover the cost of: 1) Two diamanté crowns 2) 20 peacocks 3) 300 chocolate lollipops in the shape of your heads 4) My dress 5) 500 lbs of glitter 6) One white horse (More to come in other cards) -Isabelle

  Cassandra Clare

  Horse, Two, White

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• Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

  Lady Gaga

  Angel, Rainbow, Watches

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Feb 24, 2010

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• Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.

  Anne Carson

  Pain, Dark, Sweat

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• I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers…and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea…and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Thinking, Light, Sea

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.332, e-artnow

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• They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things. I could join a band." "You gave up the guitar after two lessons." "Well," he said, "I could be a backup dancer." "Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter," said Mae. "So obviously, I support this plan.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Summer, School, Holiday

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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

  Lauren Oliver

  Life, Promise, Gold

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• ...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

  Homer

  Summer, Stars, Ocean

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.145, University of Chicago Press

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• I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Dark, Breathing

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• Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

  Sean O'Casey

  Laughter, Men, Hue

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• Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mind, Laziness, Weak

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 20 July 1749

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• This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.

  Jimmy Page

  Rocks, Next Week, Gypsy

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

  Arthur Ashe

  Gold

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• It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the first place who does not see what dignity they confer on style by their antiquity alone?... And so to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Art, Thinking, Jewels

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• I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!

  Israel Zangwill

  Hate, Poetry, I Hate

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.560, Library of Alexandria

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• The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, House, Darkness

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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