I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to…

I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. Its important that I tell them about how I dont get it right the first…

— Patricia MacLachlan

O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

— William Shakespeare

What did not demolish me simply polished me.

— India.Arie

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that…

— Michael Patrick King

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster:…

— Lord Chesterfield

Messi is not really from Barca's ranks. What they did was sign the most talented kid in the whole of Argentina! Messi was already…

— Javier Clemente

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr.,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet…

— Havelock Ellis

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and…

— Horace

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

— Liane Moriarty

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

— Rumi

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

— James Mackintosh

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

— Jim Broadbent