Polished Quotes

196 Polished quotes by 175 unique authors

Defined brows instantly make you look more polished. — Bobbi Brown
President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I… — Walt Whitman
We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if… — Nate Ruess
Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down… — Barbara Johnson
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. — Horace
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. — Mary Wortley Montagu
I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through. — Richard Armour
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It… — Ernst Mach
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her… — Janet Frame
Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and… — Elinor Lipman
A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart… — Maximus the Confessor
The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we… — Gene Hackman
I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect. — Marisa Tomei
The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish,… — Robert Burchfield
My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished. — Evangeline Lilly
A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish. — Jim Broadbent
You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose. — Billy Joel
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. — Antoine Rivarol
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think… — Peter Zumthor
What did not demolish me simply polished me. — India.Arie
A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's… — Laird Barron
People would say I'm more polished as a passer than Tebow and Cam, but I'm not as physical a runner. But I am 6'2, 223,… — Robert Griffin III
That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. — Jayson Williams
The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color… — Eugene Delacroix

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