Diamond Quote by Bryce Courtenay Download Open image “Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.” — Bryce Courtenay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diamond Language Pebbles Polish Too much
Words are seeds they land in our hearts and not the ground. Be careful what you plant and careful what you say. You might… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous,… — Robert Pirosh Copy Share Image
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe.” — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.” — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
People from all walks of life that you might find as a King Diamond fan - you don't look a certain way; you don't… — King Diamond Copy Share Image
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
The brightest and most valuable diamond started life as just a lump of carbon — Peter Dilger Copy Share Image
It was an incredible experience performing for the members and attendees at the Diamond Resorts Invitational; it was such an impressive event, and I… — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I like everything with a heaping dose of feminitity, including my cell phone. I created this phone for the classic woman, who like me,… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and a large… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
“I had a dream that my boyfriend went back to his ex…I woke up and giggled because you don’t pick up a rock after… — Starley Ard Copy Share Image
