A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Remember a diamond is just a piece of coal that did good under pressure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The brightest and most valuable diamond started life as just a lump of carbon — Peter Dilger Copy Share Image
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal. — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
The nut of the thing is that if what you make is hard like a diamond, you can put it anywhere. You… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Never ignore a person who caresfor you. Cause one day youll realize that you have lost a diamond while you were too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
A girl never knows when she might need a couple of diamonds at 10 o'clock in the morning. — Kris Jenner Copy Share Image
The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense. — Zsa Zsa Gabor Copy Share Image
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds.… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls,… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Together we made our way down to the street level. Neither of us said a word. The music was awful--Neil Diamond or… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I adore Wilkie Collins,” Tessa cried. “Oh—Armadale! And The Woman in White … Are you laughing at me?” “Not at you,” said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than… — Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere Copy Share Image
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
