Polished Quotes

196 Polished quotes by 175 unique authors

Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their… — Daisaku Ikeda
Perfection is a polished collection of errors. — Mario Benedetti
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by… — Heinrich Heine
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. — Robert South
Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the… — James Stockdale
Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach. — John Townsend Trowbridge
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the… — Samuel Johnson
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound. — Taylor Dane
In the current era, more than prodigies in mathematics, science, athletics, or art, I believe we need prodigies of good character and integrity. People who… — Ilchi Lee
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
The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the… — Unknown Author
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. — Jasper Johns
I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm… — Jason Wu
I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I… — Nina Garcia
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern… — Herman Melville
The frivolous work of polished idleness. — James Mackintosh
Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather. — Ian Anderson
I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I… — Cynthia Ozick
Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment. — Mario
All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a… — Jimmy Breslin
Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to… — Keith Miller
I read with keen interest the words of a bumper sticker readily visible on the highly polished chrome bumper of a car which was weaving… — Thomas S. Monson
There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life is either going… — Perry Marshall
I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. — Anne Robinson
It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in… — Kimbra

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