Best Confetti Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“....Blue frowned at the scene before them. Someone was behind an azalea bush, pointing the beam of a flashlight up at a dark figure on the roof of the house. Something like confetti was drifting through the air as the figure spun in circles and waved its arms. " What is this place?" "It's the Okra Lane Home for Seniors " "Somebody's twirling around on the roof." "Yes." Granny Eve sighed. "That's your great-grand-mother.”

Family Grandmother Moonlight Confetti Azalea

Book:Tumble & Blue

Source: Tumble & Blue

“I jump up from a sound sleep to Milo's voice. POP! POP!POP! Suddenly confetti rains down on the room, fluttering around and getting stuck in my surprised, open mouth.”

Good Morning Devin Confetti Ra

Book:Misfits

Source: Misfits

“It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.”

Ifs Trying I Can Moments Song Gun Scripts Right Thing Confetti

Author:Victoria Legrand

“I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.”

Feels Two Lasts Used Sorry Comedian Seconds Useful Life Confetti

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.”

Mind Feelings Brain Color Small Things Stains Warp Confetti

Book:One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir

Source: One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir

“Enron is now officially out of the energy business. They are now in a new business: confetti.”

Energy New Business Enron Confetti

Author:Jay Leno

“I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.”

“God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.”

Poor Humble Celebrate Titles Accomplishment Confetti

Author:Bob Goff

“Some eschew wine for their religion; others just don't cotton to it. A slew of Americans consider wine a fancy-schmancy treat for special occasions. They do not understand the concept of daily wine. It's as though you insisted on confetti and a swing-band at every meal.”

Special Band Concepts Treats Wine Occasions Meals Fancy Swings Cotton Special Occasion Confetti

Book:Waiter, There's a Horse in My Wine: A Treasury of Entertainment, Exploration and Education by America's Wittiest Wine Critic

Source: Waiter, There's a Horse in My Wine: A Treasury of Entertainment, Exploration and Education by America's Wittiest Wine Critic

“The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.”

Whole House Sports Down And Rings Winner Gaps Loser Bowls Parades Super Bowl Confetti

Author:John Madden

“There's no light at the end of the tunnel, there isn't even a tunnel. The best thing I can do is get drunk and listen to classical music. Or sleep and wait for death to get closer. Leaving this will not be a horrible thing. Yet I'm glad, somehow, that I threw my words in the air: confetti, celebrating nothing.”

“After the confetti is swept and the champagne bottles are tossed a more sober reality will take hold. Not just that her net gain of delegates this week will be, at most, in the single digits. But worse. There is no plausible scenario in which Clinton can win the nomination. At least not democratically.”

Reality Winning Week Gains Clinton Bottles Sober Scenarios Champagne Nominations Plausible Delegates Confetti

Author:Marc Cooper

“You know you're living right when you wake up, brush your hair - and confetti falls out!”

Knows Funny Fall Hair Wake Up Brushes Living Right Confetti

Author:Katy Perry

“What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.”

Littles Doe Objects Shadow Casts Sentences Confetti

Author:Tom Robbins

“Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?”

Ifs Want Humans Made Helping Dream Body Dies Stars Sleep Tree Return Spring Rain Roots My Family Shoes Nuclear Dust Mess Apples Dry Pockets Buried Ashes Glitter Confetti

Author:Jenny Downham

“I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”

Ideas Running Fun Air Having Fun Throwing Up In The Air Confetti

Book:Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews

Source: Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews

“Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair”

Fall Hair Window Let Me Confetti

Author:Tom Waits

“The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys pursuing, the air was so cold they ate ice cream with each breath.”

Two Lost Black Boys Air Sweet Wind Cold Sick Breaths Train Ice Hills Cream Candy Ice Cream Fluttering Confetti

Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel

“Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.”

People Mean Affection Words Love Confetti

Author:Robert Cormier

“How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)”

World Has Beens Strange Paper Weight Abandoned Steady Bubbles Drifting Debris Sturdy Blizzard Confetti

Author:Craig Silvey

“We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.”

Together Lying Girl Cooks Professors Throwing Buckets Mute Brothels Confetti

Book:Out of The Easy

Source: Out of The Easy

“Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.”

I Can Beautiful Used Party Streets Empty Bottom Used To Be Invited Something Beautiful Remnants Confetti

Book:Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.”

Want Writing I Can Hats Throwing Bells Confetti

Author:Andrew Motion

“People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.”

People Made Moments Resolution Cheer Confetti

Book:Downsiders

Source: Downsiders

“Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research laboratories which do not conform to the viewpoint of medical associations.”

Has Beens Country Age Dark Research Fairs Medical Thrown Fund Hospitals Association Conform Laboratory Dark Ages Viewpoints Scientific Research Clinic Confetti

Author:Benedict Fitzgerald

“We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti”

Humans Praying Waste Bird Sick Mad Alcoholics Wraps Silk Blackbirds Confetti

Book:The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.”

Should Years Ends Enough Shows House Amount Shame Rejection Editors Slips Publishers Bricks Confetti Wheelbarrows

Author:Jerry Spinelli