Quotes about glamour
Heidi Klum -
It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.
C. JoyBell C. -
Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon it only shines because the sun is there.
E. Lockhart - We Were Liars
In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.
John Berger - Ways of Seeing
The happiness of being envied is glamour.Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the
Reiss Field -
Everything is Fair in Love, War and Fashion.
Candace Bushnell - Trading Up
When one good thing happened to you, other good things seemed to follow.
Candace Bushnell - Trading Up
But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous.. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.
Candace Bushnell - Trading Up
That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.
Candace Bushnell - Trading Up
Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.
Aimee Agresti - Illuminate
Everything sinful is glamorous these days, isn’t it?
Guy Mankowski - Letters From Yelena
She didn’t think that by hanging a chandelier from the ceiling you made a room with a chandelier. She felt you’d made another world, which you could slip in and out of by some vague process of application
Patty Duke -
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
Virginia Postrel -
The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.
Mohit Chauhan -
Friendship formed in the glamour industry comes with mutual benefits, which is nice, but it is not the real deal.
Marilyn Monroe -
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
Barry Humphries -
Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.
David LaChapelle -
I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
T.S. Eliot -
Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death
~ Shivam -
There's always a glamour of pain even in pleasure.
Hyeonseo Lee - The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled.
Patrick Rothfuss - Rogues
So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?
Louise Bagshawe -
Just remember, honey, you only have one heart.
Louise Bagshawe - Glamour
This isn't goodbye. It's "see you later".
Michael Herr - Dispatches
Take the glamour out of war! I mean, how the bloody hell can you do _that_? Go and take the glamour out of a Huey, go take the glamour out of a Sheridan...Can _you_ take the glamour out of a Cobra, or getting stoned at China Beach? It's like taking the glamour out of an M-79, taking the glamour out of Flynn." He pointed to a picture he'd taken, Flynn laughing maniacally ("We're winning," he'd said), triumphantly. "Nothing the matter with _that_ boy, is there? Would you let your daughter marry th
Ravindra Shukla - A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life
She could afford anything, she could give anything, but she could not share a moment of her life with anybody. Shewas a beautiful and a glamorous diamond with an astronomical price tag, but to a crude reality — she was still a stone, a living stone. Nothing else but a stone in an aesthetic sense.
Debasish Mridha -
Even when I was a very young man,I was looking for the purpose of life; I was looking for happiness all over the world; In fame and in glamour, in wealth and in splendor, not knowing how foolish it was.Happiness is not out there.Happiness is not in wealth or splendor.Happiness is inside me, in my mind, in my thoughts, It is in my perception of the world.
Roy Peter Clark - The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English
The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning and enchantment.
C. JoyBell C. -
I can't over-emphasize how important an exquisite perfume is, to be wrapped and cradled in an enchanting scent upon your skin is a magic all on its own! The notes in that precious liquid will remind you that you love yourself and will tell other people that they ought to love you because you know that you're worth it. The love affair created by a good perfume between you and other people, you and nature, you and yourself, you and your memories and anticipations and hopes and dreams; it is all to
C. JoyBell C. -
It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say
John Waters - Role Models
Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened by our being dirty. Not filthy. Just mildly grimy. Filthy fingernails have always been a favorite fashion accessory of mine. Especially when you place your hands in the prayer positions. Matter of fact, I urge all my followers to forgo nail polish permanently and replace it with expertly applied soot. The nonexistent gods above will ignore our prayers better this way.
John Berger -
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
Jack Bunbury - He/She Smells a Hoo-Hoo
My toes are a total wreck, my fingernails worse, and god knows my hair could use a registered nurse.
Marilyn Monroe -
I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.