That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. — Jayson Williams Copy Share Image
I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks. — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring. — Celia Brayfield Copy Share Image
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages. — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
Diamond cannot be polished without friction, gold cannot be purified without fire. good people go through trials but don't suffer, with that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect. — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
“Polished round and smooth as marbles or lozenges of stone veined and striped. Black disclets and bits of polished quartz all bright… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's playing with the idea of what musicians wear when they play live, especially focusing on the evolution of what a musician… — Renzo Rosso Copy Share Image
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills.… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's… — Jaroslav Pelikan 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
“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
People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“He visited the weavers and tailors with his brother, choosing garments with cuffs of feathers and exquisite embroidery, with collars as sharp… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither… — John Knox Copy Share Image