Polish Quotes

270 quotes by 237 authors

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. — John Burroughs
In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it. — Scott Caan
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. — Thomas Carlyle
I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the… — Kurt Cobain
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity… — Jean Cocteau
Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But… — Mark Twain
It's too early for a Polish pope. — Pope John Paul II
From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top. — Gary Hamel
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint… — Ann Hood
Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round… — H. Rider Haggard
It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade… — Abigail Van Buren
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to… — Iain Banks
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes — Kelly Cates
It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like… — Peter Singer
How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to… — Hannah More
Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty -… — Dag Hammarskjold
You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain. — Margaret Atwood
Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word — Rooney Mara
Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish. — Hugh Laurie

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