Top 346 Polished Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.
In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.
I'm never going to be this polished politician. Nor am I going to be perfect.
Sometimes a busted queen is more entertaining than a polished queen.
Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect.
It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.
I'm a talk-show junkie. I'd rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what others have written.
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
Jim Rohn is outstanding! He is among the most polished, professional speakers in America, with a message everyone should hear.
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, and I can throw with the best of them.
The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.
I think J.Crew has figured out a way to make young professional guys look cool with a polished suit that looks expensive but is actually affordable.
I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.
I try to buy shares of unpopular companies when they look like road kill and sell them when they've been polished up a bit.
Our Windows 10 experience is super polished, and it integrates all the community features seamlessly with the game experience.
The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.
I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.
I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies and laying bare the truth.
I worked from 8 A.M. to 12 A.M., and sometimes until 2 A.M. There were no shifts, just a few dozen people, and we all polished glass. I didn't enjoy it.
The youthful sparkle in Ronald Reagan's eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished.
Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.
Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.
Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot
It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years.
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, and I can throw with the best of them.
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 polished the leather furniture.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces.
Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.
Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.
I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense.
The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
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.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.
But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.
The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.
I'm a wrestler, a very polished wrestler and some of my best attributes in wrestling are my scrambling ability and my clinch.
Ideally, a dancer should put in 10 hours of daily practice to deliver a polished performance.
I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.
I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.
The main thing with my shows is that I'm professional but not highly polished. I don't like people to think they're just seeing an album in person.
I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.
