Quotes About Glitter

I left him and went up on deck to look out at the slithering city, its glitter of street lamps fizzy under the rain. There's something wrong about a ship in dock, something pathetic, like a bird fluttering in a spill of oil. The Nova was tethered to her berth by ropes and chains, caught in a pool of greasy water. I could feel her shifting under my feet, tugging to be free.

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.

We laughed together. Our friendship was possible because Ivonne was wise without glitter, while I, too often, glittered without wisdom.

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.'

Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things.

She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.

Lucky! I can only eat glitter and rainbows. Darn my sensitive stomach!

And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning.

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Around the overturned enamel tray, a star of thermometer shards glittered, and balls of mercury trembled like celestial dew.

A Muslim woman opts] out of the glitter of the West because of [her] belief. It takes strength to do so. More strength than Muslim men realize: I wonder if imams would insist on the hijab as much as they do if they had to put it on themselves and cope with the consequences in ordinary life. It takes strength and character.

He fairly glittered in the gloom.

Nothing could be happier, in general, than to seem dazzling, but she had a perverse unwillingness to glitter by arrangement.

My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.'

talent without discipline is only an empty promise—the glitter of an unworked crystal. It is nothing of itself.

A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick, Youth must be foolish and mirthful and blind, Gaze not before and glance not behind, Mark not the shadow that darkens the way- Regret not the glitter of any lost day, But laugh with no reason except the red wine, For youth must be youthful and foolish and blind!

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Just because it sparkles doesn't mean it's good.

It was the glitter days, and the New York Dolls and Kiss would come play at the Coventry, all those bands would come in from Manhattan.

I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

But I do see the good side of water now. How good it is when you're really thirsty, how it glitters and gurgles! How alive it is!