Glitter Quotes - Page 5

• I just think my family is so normal, but no one wants to accept that. I find my family to be normal because there's an understanding of what every job entails. And it is a job. It's not this fantasy that Hollywood and movies are all glitter and stardust.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Jobs, Thinking, Understanding

  Interview With Sarah Paulson, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• The U.S. continues the search for Osama bin Laden. Reports suggest that bin Laden is most likely hiding out somewhere remote and barren, where he will not encounter others. The FBI has begun searching theaters showing the movie 'Glitter.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Encounters, Osama Bin Laden, Hiding

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• Glitter is cool because that's like glam rock, but rhinestones need to die out.

  Kemp Muhl

  Rocks, Glam Rock, Needs

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls.

  Guido Palau

  Fashion, Balls, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes she wore Levi's with white-suede fringe sewn down the legs and a feathered Indian headdress, sometimes old fifties' taffeta dresses covered with poetry written in glitter, or dresses made of kids' sheets printed with pink piglets or Disney characters.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Character, Kids, White

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Dangerous Angels: Five Weetzie Bat Books”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Farewell, Men

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.615, BookBaby

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• I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.

  Rebecca Wells

  Girl, Mother, Creativity

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• What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.

  Osamu Tezuka

  Life, Time, Men

  "Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters". Book by Osamu Tezuka, 1983.

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• Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.

  Mary Ellen Snodgrass

  Sex, Teenager, Ocean

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

  Francis Quarles

  Son, Gold, Treasure

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• In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've become accustomed to the title of Military Superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there. We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get rich quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas, quality products and wise investments.

  Barack Obama

  Wise, Military, Smart

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• In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.

  Jackson Browne

  Future, Tired, Wings

  Song: Before The Deluge, 1974

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• Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.

  Ansel Adams

  Spiritual, Fall, Light

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• Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

  Daniel Handler

  Gutters, Lasts, Parades

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Lakes, Water

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• The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Scared, Weak, Persons

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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• His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.

  Yukio Mishima

  Eye, Emotion, Evident

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Runaway Horses”, Vintage

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• ...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.

  Mark Twight

  Memories, Ambition, Sleep

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.26, The Mountaineers Books

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• I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

  Taylor Swift

  Makeup, Garden, Thinking

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• All that glitters is sold as gold.

  Ogden Nash

  Gold

  Ogden Nash, “Look What You Did, Christopher!”

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• Basically Britney Spears' video is like a three an a half minute version of Glitter.

  Christian Finnegan

  Three, Video, Half

  "Best Week Ever", www.imdb.com. (2004-).

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• Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suffering, Human Life, Goods

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1958). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.325, Courier Corporation

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• The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Water, Mind, Sun

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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• I could see myself as a glitter-hippie.

  Kylie Minogue

  Hippie

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• What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!

  Susan Fenimore Cooper

  Gratitude, Fall, Men

  Susan Fenimore Cooper (1850). “Rural Hours”, p.202

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