Shiny Quotes - page 4

Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Big Shiny Films in your Dinky Little Home. View quote
Patrick Allen
I really like you, Midori. A lot.” "How much is a lot?” "Like a spring bear,” I said. "A spring bear?” Midori looked up again. "What's that all about? A spring bear.” "You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring, and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, "Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?' So you and the bear cub spend the whole day in each other's arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?” "Yeah. Really nice.” "That's how much I like you. View quote
Haruki Murakami
The only perfection which modern civilisation achieves is mechanical; machines are magnificent and immaculate but the life which serves them or is served by them isn't magnificent or shiny or more perfect or more comely. View quote
Karel Čapek
Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading. View quote
Maureen Dowd
You'd be shiny and glossy and resist dust. View quote
Gina Barberi
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath. View quote
Tom Waits
GAVRAS: I'd love to have his hair. He has very good curly, shiny hair. View quote
M.I.A.
To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop. View quote
Gerard Way
Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information. View quote
Neil Gaiman
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. (Alice Walker)
She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it's been around ham and got the flavor. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
I'd like to be a fairy princess - a little golden doll with gossamer wings, in a voile dress, adorned with bright, shiny things. I see that as something totally pure and beautiful. Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. View quote
Sharon Tate
A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny. View quote
Marisa Miller
There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball. View quote
Nora Roberts
A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance. View quote
Sasha Grey
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. View quote
Anne Lamott
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. View quote
Anne Lamott
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon. View quote
Murray Rothbard
No agony, no ecstacy, no pleasure and no pain - so exquisitely uninteresting you drive your wife insane The TV is your oracle, the newspapers your guide and your shiny little vehicle is your passion and your pride You've done the same things every day for nigh on forty years and in your ludicrous routines you hide your worthless fears On the blandest boat in Boredom you are captain of the crew and every time I eat vegetables it makes me think of you. View quote
Attila the Stockbroker
There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains. (Woodrow Wilson)
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it. View quote
Peter F. Hamilton
I have, quite possibly, the most self-antagonistic brain of our generation. So when I really want to work on something, it goes into overdrive to think of other things that are really bitchin' to distract me. And if I change gears to work on that new shiny thing, it'll think of something even more bitchin' for the original thing or a wholly new project altogether. It's a wonder I manage to dress myself, really. View quote
Brian Clevinger
LA is a hole where everything good goes to die. Every year I come here, it's like a contest to see how short I can cut the trip for the next year. Eventually I'm just going to run inside, take a picture, and fly home. The next year I'll just rent some time on a satellite and get pics from orbit. But everything is shiny. View quote
Brian Clevinger