The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and…

“The only clouds are pale and thin, hung as high as they can manage, like cobwebs in the high arches of a stairwell, and…

— Jon McGregor

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

— Fran Lebowitz

“I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled fresh, freshly washed or of fresh laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved.”

— Bernhard Schlink

Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven.

— Jessi Lane Adams

“Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you…

— Tim O'Brien

“The poetry of the new year is problematically punctual. An impeccable guest who arrives on time when you are running frantically behind schedule. Catching…

— Pavithra K. Mehta

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

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

— Catherine Zeta-Jones