Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.
You need a screwdriver for screws and a hammer for nails. Anybody that's trying to screw in a nail with a screwdriver... that ain't too smart.
When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it.
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.
I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself.
I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.
One has to work on the Polish economy, so that we start getting closer to real prosperity and not prosperity on paper.
I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.
In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story of Pol Pot and other people, not all dictators but most of them.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
Yes, I find it therapeutic to clean my vessels and polish them. I like to water my plants and clean all the artefacts in my house.
I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
I didn't want 'Hotel Transylvania' to be the nail in the coffin for cartoony animation. Because if the movie failed, I could see people blaming that aspect of it. I was really nervous about that.
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.
The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.
I like the thought of playing for money instead of silverware. I never did like to polish.
If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.
Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.
A Polish man bought a zebra for a pet. What does he call the zebra? Spot!
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.
The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.
I've got another friend who is half-German and half-Polish. He hates Jews but can't remember why!
AOL-Time Warner didn't want a WCW property on their platforms - being TNT or TBS or anything else - in any way, shape, or form, and that was the death nail.
The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish.
So please get your rags
And your polishing jars,
Somebody has to go polish the stars.
I was a very imaginative child and I told a lot of lies. My sister used to call it my Exaggerator Calculator. I liked telling a story and I knew how to polish it up.
You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.
A Polish guy locked his keys in the car. It took an hour to get his wife out.
A story and character are most important for me, not how I look, what clothes I wear, or what nail paint has been chosen for me.
You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves
What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.
Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement
Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.
Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.
When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.
I will be engaging myself personally, as the head of the Polish government, in the optimization of conditions for the exploration, research, logistics and the business related to the production of shale gas.
If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you?
I wear weird-colored toenail polish - like blue, green, or yellow. If it's strange-looking, I will wear it.
I've realized that I can never not do the nail salon joke, and I will have to talk about Bon Qui Qui for eternity.
I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.
When I was six and already able to read and write Polish, my uncle the curate taught me Latin. Since he had no suitable textbook, he simply used the breviary.
Ferrari used to be the car that you kept in your garage, took out to polish and show, and put back into the garage.
The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.
Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail
Christmas traditions are important in my family. Being half English and half Polish-Lithuanian, we have two separate celebrations.
I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.
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