Shiny Quotes

207 quotes by 178 authors

You know, right often, the body is the best thing weâ€™ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something! — Allan Gurganus
Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life.… — Gillian Flynn
The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it. — Peter F. Hamilton
The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes… — Jim Elliot
You just don't notice the time of your own metamorphosis. Until you do. Every once in a while time dissolves and you remember what you… — Sloane Crosley
Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even… — M.F.K. Fisher
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? — Jack Kerouac
Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie. — Marc Andreessen
Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but heâ€™s a little bit of an asshole and no one invites him to their pool parties. — Ze Frank
At the expansion stage, it's really easy to lose focus and chase the shiny object, instead of staying focused on what you're good at and… — Jim McDonough
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old… — Florida Scott-Maxwell
Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison… — Vivian Gornick
I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put… — Muhammad Ali
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… — Virginia Woolf
I'll be the first to admit that my idea of God is pretty different. I believe in a God with a long white beard, a… — Jack Handey
Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would… — Richard Hammond
The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never… — Josh Gates
Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond. — Chanakya
You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright. — Elspeth Huxley
She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for 1993, the first… — Gary Shteyngart

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