All polishing is done by friction.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

— Pliny the Younger

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

— Stefan G. Bucher

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“No, you just keep polishing your fangs or whatever you guys do in there.”

— Jayde Scott

So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.

— Shel Silverstein

“It was all a part of being trustworthy—of being a piece of sea glass. High tides, low tides, storms, sand and mistakes all contributed…

— Maria V. Snyder

Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.

— Kin Hubbard

“You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing — grinding, buffing, and polishing — not writing.”

— Guy Kawasaki

I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.

— Jens Lekman

We're not polishing fine china here.

— Bill Belichick

I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I'm still rough around the edges and need a lot of polishing.

— Tyson Chandler

“I can’t get clean.” “That’s because you’re polishing a diamond. How much more brilliant do you want it to shine, my lovely?”

— Kristen Ashley

“If you get beautiful, bright and scratch less jewel, Without constant polishing and cleaning, It will lose its brightness by a little dust. So…

— Meiji Renno

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

— Michel de Montaigne