Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
- Oscar LevantTime, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.
- Robert MusilBut if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different.
- Albert Guerard