Top 44 Glitter Quotes

I won a competition in primary school for my painting of Nottingham’s Goose Fair; it was a riot of colour with glitter and sequins.

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

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we’ll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

Glitter is my makeup of choice.

It’s funny because I’m a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I’m more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters’ glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: ‘You’re not going to school now, you’ll embarrass us!’

When I was little, I used to think, ‘That’s the way people in the future are gonna dress! They’ll be wearing space suits, and it will be all silver, all the time. It’s gonna glitter.’

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter – Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes – A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America’s brittle and mutating id.

I like to call it ‘album making’ because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, ‘All the glue and the glitter – I don’t have time for that!’

From when I can remember, I wanted to be an actress. I am a die hard fan of dancing and would take my dad’s clothes and my mom’s clothes and dance in front of the mirror. I loved my dad’s clothes, as they had a lot of glitter in them.

Some of the best sing-along stuff you’ll ever hear is Gary Glitter.

One year, I was a go-go girl for Halloween, and I got all this glitter eye shadow, my hair was poufy with braids, I was wearing all these different colors and fake eyelashes that went all the way up to my eyebrows. I totally enjoy the whole Halloween feel.

The cat eye is one of my favorites to rock because you can do so much with it from a thicker, bold look to the thin, simple black line. I sometimes even step it up a notch by adding colored liner or glitter to keep it fun and unique!

The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don’t play boogie music, and they don’t play the blues.

Crop tops with high waist skirts and palazzos with a lot of glitter have a very party vibe to it.

I like very funky stuff – I tend to be attracted to flare pants and anything that has glitter.

I’ve been really inspired by Paris Hilton, small dogs, and a glitter, luxe lifestyle.

If you have a beard, I would suggest putting glitter on it, because it will make you look fancy.

Professionals use ‘Strictly’ as a relaunch of flagging careers. In my year Kara Tointon won. She had been talking about giving up acting in favour of interior design, but the glitter ball led to a role as Eliza Doolittle in the West End.

Throw a little glitter on a dead flower and it’ll mask the decay.

I think why I am such a success in regards to my shows, is I don’t give you an impression that my world’s all rose tinted glasses, candy floss, sequins and glitter.

Fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

When I was 9, I was into T. Rex, Gary Glitter, and Alice Cooper. I knew The Beatles because my nan introduced me to them, but T. Rex was the first band I got into myself. I got ‘Metal Guru’ a few months after hearing ‘Children of the Revolution’ in Pwllheli in North Wales at a market.

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.

Anyone can wear glitter, even a woman in her 60s. It’s all about techniques. Instead of applying glitter all over the face, you can just add a little to the inner corner of your eyes or on your brow bone, or even on your Cupid’s bow. It just adds this magical element to your makeup.

I had to put me foot down with the first record company. It was about 1975, when singers were being given names like Gary Glitter and Alvin Stardust, so they wanted to call me Benny Santini just because me dad’s an Irish-Italian with an ice-cream business!

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

I don’t know if it’s cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that’s probably why I tend to write like that.

Celebrate your child’s achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don’t worry that you’re throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.

When you’re around me, you’re going to get glitter on you.

Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.

Occasionally, I’ll wear glitter or blue eye shadow.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

I think once you’re past 30 you shouldn’t wear a lot of glitter.

After Pride, Christmas is a drag queen’s next best holiday. It’s pretty gay, full of tinsel and glitter and finery and campness.

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

My mother was not a country girl. She was a Brooklyn girl, born and raised in Flatbush, and then a Long Island girl, who liked shopping, ‘a little glitter’ in her clothes, and keeping secret the actual color of her hair, which from the day I was born to the day she died, was the ‘platinum blonde’ of Jean Harlow’s.

I don’t think people know me at all. At the end of the day, if you see me in sequins and glitter out at a club, you might think that’s all there is. But, you know, it’s just glitter. My friends who I’ve known since I was 17 – they know who I am.

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.

I can dress down, but I can’t dress up. I’m not a great one for glitter.

My band and I, we cover our bodies in hairspray and glitter. We use the hairspray to make sure the glitter sticks.

Often you’d find yourself exhausted backstage during a matinee with glitter on your face, asking a colleague, ‘Who’s your gas supplier?’ At the time, I thought, ‘This would make a brilliant TV comedy drama.’