A Quote by Billy Joe Shaver

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

Billy Joe Shaver

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Chunk Coal Diamond Gonna Just Old Someday

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Billy Joe Shaver
American - Singer
Born: August 16, 1939

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

Henry A. Kissinger

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

Leonardo da Vinci

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

David Bowie

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

Miriam

To me, all business is the same it's just the product that's different and you can have a diamond in your hand, but if you don't market it correctly, it just becomes another piece of coal.

Bruce Buffer

I'm like coal under pressure. I turn into a diamond.

Tyson Kidd

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

Khalil Gibran

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

Thomas A. Edison

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

Terry Pratchett

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation. But when we're talking about the 21st Century and those industries that are gonna take us forward, it won't be coal.

Richard Di Natale

Overall, you know, no state in our country has been hurt more by the eight years of Barack Obama than Wyoming has been, and whether it's the absolutely unconstitutional role that the EPA is playing and the president trying to kill our coal industry - Wyoming is the nation's largest coal-producing state. So when President Obama and Hillary Clinton say they're gonna put coal out of business, it hits us harder than just about anyplace else.

Liz Cheney

By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It's just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond.