Polished Quotes · Page 7

The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On…

— Leonard Cohen

I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man…

— William Cowper

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Defined brows instantly make you look more polished.

— Bobbi Brown

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished…

— Jimmy Breslin

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

— Jaron Lanier

When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age…

— Horace Walpole

And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades…

— W. G. Sebald

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets…

— Kim Weston

I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because…

— India.Arie

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

— Confucius

Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The…

— Yvon Chouinard

One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home…

— Boyd K. Packer

Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you…

— Lily King

I'm a talk-show junkie. I'd rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what…

— Donella Meadows

Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a…

— Albert Hadley

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

— Robert South

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

— Laurence Sterne

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

— Jane Espenson

I'm real. I'm not polished.

— Richard Ojeda

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors…

— Jason Wu

I think Jared [Kushner] is an unusually polished person.

— Jared Kushner

A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste,…

— Thomas Starr King