“Take a plain-Jane rock and polish it, and you'll find a gem.” — Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson Copy Share Image
Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative. — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
The idea of being able to polish something for nine months - it's the perfect way to hone your film. — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not? — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success.… — Wanda Rutkiewicz Copy Share Image
Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not have the right to vote in Germany. From a Polish perspective, I say: it would be good if Ms.… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Gdyby wszyscy myśleli tak samo jak ja, nikt nigdy nie wyszedłby ze swojego pokoju. I byłby to dobry świat. W którym nie… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I did a really fun orange nail polish with my friend Deborah Lippmann. All of her nail polishes are named after songs… — Lara Stone Copy Share Image
I was talking to my friend from New York yesterday, and I used the expression, 'You can't polish a turd'. He looked… — Steve Williams Copy Share Image
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life… — Perry Marshall Copy Share Image
I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules.… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
The fruit of humanity is devotion to one's parents. The fruit of righteousness is to respect one's elders. The fruit of wisdom… — Mencius Copy Share Image
In the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
