“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.’ Ain’t so?” — Stephanie Reed Copy Share Image
I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too. — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather. — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I wanted to be like an actor or a comedian for a little while, because I was always wanting to make people… — Gemma Ward Copy Share Image
“A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
“It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
I love to talk to children about making mistakes. Its important that I tell them about how I dont get it right… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Super polished signage is not always a good sign. I'm always looking for places that you have to know about to find.… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Messi is not really from Barca's ranks. What they did was sign the most talented kid in the whole of Argentina! Messi… — Javier Clemente Copy Share Image
“Each simplest act, each hidden intention, had to be cut to the Rule and polished and perfected like the tiny stones of… — Katherine Cavarly Hulme Copy Share Image
“There is this certain rawness of soul that puts the polished ones on edge. Some of us just step out and the… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I read with keen interest the words of a bumper sticker readily visible on the highly polished chrome bumper of a car… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise. — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. — Jayson Williams Copy Share Image
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