Diamond Quotes · Page 12

Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace.

— Tupac Shakur

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

— Henry A. Kissinger

If a diamond is polished by friction, then a man is perfected by trials. -

— Ritu Ghatourey

A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.

— Anonymous

“Arthur’s program of discounting diamonds throughout his vast chain of”

— Clive Cussler

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

— Dorothy Parker

They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.

— Gregory Maguire

“Diamond is the hardest substance, but the Irony, it is also brittle.”

— Pushkar Saraf

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

A stone may not be as pleasing to our eyes as much as a diamond is to us. But every little detail…

— Anastasia Blanchard

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

— Rick Warren

If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.

— John Flavel

This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.

— Mos Def

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

— Piers Paul Read

Real Madrid fans have to wear sunglasses while watching their team because this star-studded team of diamonds is just astonishing.

— Ray Hudson

I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy.

— Justin Bieber

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls,…

— Ian Caldwell

Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too…

— Bernie Siegel

The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds.…

— Diane Setterfield

I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for…

— Nick Lowe

The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Diamond cannot be polished without friction, gold cannot be purified without fire. good people go through trials but don't suffer, with that…

— Anonymous

So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds,…

— Patti LaBelle

Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there; Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek Love lights Her fire from that flame. When beauty…

— Rumi

Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. She stumbled toward me over the rocking deck, the…

— Rick Riordan

After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game…

— Richie Ashburn

Most people in the country would think the diamond jubilee is a wonderful occasion for us to celebrate together as a community…

— Nick Clegg

“you can now take the remains of your cremated loved one and have their remaining carbon pressed into a diamond! Companies like…

— Ken Ham

Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die…

— H. Rider Haggard

Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's…

— Denis Johnson

However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the…

— Pierre Louis Maupertuis

The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with…

— Henry David Thoreau

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

— Bryce Courtenay

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

— Khalil Gibran

Each of us is like a diamond, and each of us has the potential to be brilliant.

— Simon T. Bailey

[On softball:] Diamonds are a dyke's best friend.

— Yvonne Zipter

“A diamond must be cut many times before it yields even a tiny jewel.”

— Malala Yousafzai

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

— Billy Joe Shaver

“Life is like a diamond. The facet you choose to look through is up to you !”

— Stephanie Borrelli

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

— Dolly Parton