Steve Rushin

Anyone who thinks sports are ruled by athletes need only think of American sports' most enduring tradition: Immediately after a championship, as the champagne sprays and the confetti falls, the trophy is passed not to the team captain but most often to the team owner, handed to him by his highest-ranking employee, the league commissioner.

American Journalist

Channing Tatum

I just love cake, confetti cake, to be specific. It has little colored candies inside the cake, and then you get the confetti icing, which is really hard to find sometimes. It's really hard to explain to people, because it's not icing with sprinkles on top. It's icing that actually has candies inside of it. It's Funfetti icing.

American Actor

Charles Woodson

I've always wanted to be under the confetti as a champion, and the Packers beating the Steelers to conclude the 2010 season finally gave me that opportunity. It was so surreal, being able to bring my family onto the field, seeing my oldest son roll around in the confetti, having a chance to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.

American Football Player

Victoria Legrand

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.

Musician

John Madden

One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.

American Entertainer

Ira Glass

I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

Mario Kempes

Every time the national team took to the field, we had the confetti shower and the ticker-tape thing.

Argentinian Footballer

Bob Goff

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

American Author

Katy Perry

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

American Musician

John Caudwell

If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.

English Businessman

Confetti is often used in joyful, festive situations like weddings or parties.

Celebratory Context

Confetti can be litter, so biodegradable options are popular for outdoor events.

Environmental Impact

Confetti refers primarily to paper, but can also include other small, festive materials.

Not Always Paper

 A little paper me. And a little paper you. And in a pop-up population people’s problems pop up too. There’d be a pompous paper parliament who remained out of touch, and who ignored the people's protests about all the paper cuts, then the peaceful paper protests would get blown to paper pieces, by the confetti cannons manned by pre-emptive police.

Harry Baker: A love poem...

 blue and green confetti all over the place and knowing that you just won the Super Bowl, to a year later, the pressure of the game, the ball on the one-yard line, and this is the chance to win the game, and it doesn't work. And however many millions and millions of people all over the world watching. And having to walk to the media,

My secret to staying...

 and cyanobacteria that look like party confetti exploded all over a petri dish. A lot of times what we see in popular media are scanning electron microscope images of microorganisms looking like scary monsters. Without seeing them move their lives remain elusive to us

The invisible life...

 If we were to map all the world's celebrations onto a calendar, then we'd realize that running through Planet City would be this continuous festival procession dancing across a 365 day loop, each day amongst the flickering confetti.

Liam Young: Planet City...

 where we take what could be meaningful moments of our lives and we shred them into increasingly tiny, useless pieces. Time confetti is an enemy of both energy and of excellence. If we want to find flow, we need better boundaries.

Adam Grant: How to stop...

 there even fewer more time okay so while you're showing your time so they're people that even memorize like a hundred digits of pi or a thousand digital my son did that once it cut out of confetti is a little weird

The Beauty of Pi PIPE...

 and confetti that pasty flesh and that tailored suit. Instead, I'm sipping my sweetened iced tea looking around at the table, at the coworkers around me, none of whom, not one, looks back at me. Rather,

Sakinah Hofler: How...

 It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period. Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti.

How to use a semicolon -...

 And the same is true of abundance. We evolved in a world where scarcity is dangerous, and abundance meant survival. So, one confetto -- which happens to be the singular of confetti,

Where joy hides and how...

 a motion-activated confetti canon ball. But wait, this is actually my favorite project. It's a lobster made of playdough that's afraid of the dark.