Polished Quotes

196 Polished quotes by 175 unique authors

We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to… — Julia Cameron
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow. — Chanakya
I thank the Lord that I may have passed some of the tests, but maybe there will have to be more before I shall have… — Harold B. Lee
A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either. — Vera Nazarian
I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been… — Carol Rifka Brunt
Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another,… — Criss Jami
Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape… — John Greenleaf Whittier
For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long… — Ernest Hemingway
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. — Daniel Defoe
I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks. — Pauline Hanson
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. — Robert Green Ingersoll
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. — James Joyce
Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to look dated. Mixing up your accessories… — Stacy London
I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished. — Hilary Mantel
When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how… — Maria Sharapova
I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards. — Catherine Zeta-Jones
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. — Lin Yutang
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of… — Cormac McCarthy
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become… — Richard Russo
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it… — Patti Smith
…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never… — Vladimir Nabokov
Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is… — Susanna Clarke
We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way… — Ani DiFranco
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Unknown Author

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