The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think… — Pele Copy Share Image
“Manfried imagined the stars to be jewels shining in the depths of a long-sealed crypt and, drifting off, he almost glimpsed himself… — Jesse Bullington Copy Share Image
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail -… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora.… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in… — David First Copy Share Image
I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many… — Louis Bacon Copy Share Image
Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have… — Albert Watson Copy Share Image
They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
