Shiny Quotations

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

I love all things crafty. I love to make jewelry. I love to cut up old clothes and turn them into something new. I love projects like transforming a busted table into a shiny new table. I'm really into restoration and little side projects.

I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

Dear Chicago, when I wake up in the morning and see your skyline - the terra cotta of the Wrigley Building, the height of the Willis Tower, the shiny sides of my beloved Trump Tower - I know I'm home. I feel a certain energy walking between your spires, but recognize that what makes you special to me is that my roots are here.

I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere.

I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.

Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false lashes and color on my eyelids. I'm really liking shiny eyelids in copper, rose, gold, or silver.

I remember when I first came to Los Angeles being staggered by the range of roles open to me. These were leading parts in shiny new projects, and what always excited me was knowing there was a possibility that I could actually get these parts. I always had the impression that I had a chance.

Little children love bright, shiny things - and in my experience, most grown-up women aren't very different!

Writing in a near frenzy is wonderful and freeing, but for me, it did not result in a nice, shiny novel. Instead, what I have is a mess.

Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what I have is a mess.

I used to look so immature, like a young man without self-confidence. There was one particular light blue, shiny cape outfit I wore that still makes me cringe.

Show Republicans a shiny pro-life or pro-marriage issue and they'd much rather address that controversial topic than keep pressing on the tyranny that Obamacare represents.

I work mainly in matte gold. When it's shiny ... sometimes you lose the shape of the piece.

My goal is educate people about alopecia and try to break the Barbie-doll stereotype that children get slammed with daily in media campaigns. I want to show children that they are perfect just the way they are and beauty comes from within. I want to encourage children and adults with issues that make them feel different and show them--through my big, bald, shiny head--that who you are is the most important thing in the world, not what you look like.

I would show up for work and look at the pairs of tight, shiny shorts or jeans that made up our 54 wardrobe and wonder if we were making Showgirls...

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

I always thought I had to keep my dark hair out of the sun, but look at the native Hawaiians. Their hair is always so shiny and healthy.

He worked as a doctor for 30 years and as far as I know, never stood up in front of millions of people and got a gold shiny thing for it, which seems ridiculous someone who pretends to do that should be honored and recognized, but it's a crazy world, you know?

Recent research suggests that regularly seeing good friends in the local park will bring a greater boost to mental health than having a shiny German automobile parked outside your retirement home. My candid advice to aging Americans would be to use your hard-earned cash to invest much more in friendships than in material items.

I'm stupidly crazy for old movies. I (record) them so that when I'm doing my makeup in the morning, I have them on. I can be like: 'Look at Jane Russell in that shiny leopard dress - I'm copying that.'

I think there is a statewide concern that we have a shiny new system that no one has any real confidence will work.

I think we kind of gravitated toward the drama between the family, which was so fascinating and interesting, ... And it's like this dichotomy of this happy, shiny music, and then behind this 'Ozzie and Harriet' kind of exterior was this heavy, dysfunctional drama going on.

The amount of advice, and portfolio monitoring and portfolio structuring is going to be a very hot topic over the next six months, ... and it's going to be very difficult to compete with a beat-up car when the guy next door has a nice shiny one.

While a high-definition video format does bring benefits over today's standard-definition discs, in movies as in music consumers are moving beyond shiny discs.

When you see gold laying on the ocean floor, it looks just like this. It's so shiny and beautiful.

There has been just enough activity on the big, new shiny aircraft front ... to keep both manufacturers feeling and talking very buoyantly about the future,

At the Golden Globes, we were seeing more of a men's hair statement than ever before -- from spiked and shiny to pushed and styled. It's not just slick-back-and-go anymore.

And what surprises many people is that it's not your new shiny vehicle that's stolen its mostly vehicles that are five year or older.

It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland.

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

You can let your stores grow old and tired for a period, but if someone comes in with brand new shiny stores and competitive prices, you'll go out of business quickly. They need to keep themselves up and invest in store upgrades.

Towers oxidize quickly and go from a shiny metallic color to dull gray. It's hard to see the towers, and I bet no one can tell you how many towers there are between Exits 1 and 5. It looks bad to have a painted tower with fake tree limbs and it's much taller than the trees around it. I call that the 'Wal-Mart Special.

Book covers got very boring for a time. Then they improved with shiny ones, and now they come in fabric, and the kids are going crazy for them.

Sometimes I hear it in his voice, but anyway, at the end of the day he's the shiny bumper bar.

You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea.

This is a shiny epoch in our history.. an era of re-foundation,

In auto thefts, it ties back to the chop shops, what kinds of cars need parts, not your shiny new car.

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.

I've learned all my hair and makeup tricks on the set, and I incorporate all kinds of things when I'm getting ready, and I'm big on blotting papers. I get a very shiny forehead, which I like to call my inner glow coming out.

I've just been up the Falls Road, walking round in a shiny yellow coat. I was going to call into the Sinn Fein office, actually.

Atari can go ahead and sell Shiny but I think I can help too because I'm on the board of a lot of things. I can bring a lot of parties to the table and I can do that faster if I hit the streets myself.

I like to wear short-sleeved collared shirts and high-waist trousers with shiny shoes. And at night, when I'm playing, I'll often wear suits. But it started with my uncle's vintage clothes.

In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn't resist that shiny apple in the Garden of Eden.

The Buddhists feel that you are recreated as some thing, as an insect, or an animal, or a person, but that you're not in some beautiful shiny place.

Alex is proof that shiny suits and attention to detail can co-exist with a 'balls out' vocal and ripping guitar.

A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.

It is the mind that builds up the body strong and shiny or wastes it to skin and bone.

They're actually doing beautifully now their in great health, their coats are shiny and their eyes are bright now and they're really healthy dogs now.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.