Burnish Quotes

#1. I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights.

Michael Gove

#2. In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#3. I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

George Santayana

#4. I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

David Rockefeller

#5. It's a glorious evening, warm but not too close, the sun starting its lazy descent, shadows lengthening and the light just beginning to burnish the trees with gold.

Paula Hawkins

#6. True Dragons are among the Universe's most perfect beings. This is a useful bit of information. Squirrel it away like a nugget of Fafnir's gold; take it out and burnish it now and then as we proceed.

Shawn MacKenzie

#7. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burnt on the water.

William Shakespeare

#8. Remember ... we don't see objects, we see light. [ ... ] Light can do anything water can do
flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do
paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.

Janet Fitch

#9. Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.

Natasha Yim

#10. Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.

Xavier Niel

#11. Everything with a breath is able to create and make a change as long as there is a chance, a wish and need for.

Auliq Ice

#12. I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

David Baldacci

#13. If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

Rumi

#14. Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever ... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#15. My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn't like any one of them singularly.

Christian Scott

#16. Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

Harvey Weinstein

#17. Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase

Sunday Adelaja

#18. When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

Milarepa

#19. You are a creature of the darkness, the same as myself and Mr. Dowling. Like us, I fear that you will end up destined to play a cruel, vicious part in the shaping of the future. Some of us cannot escape the damnable reach of fate.

Darren Shan

#20. When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

Orison Swett Marden

#21. I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

Mark Twain

#22. In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer.

Eckhart Tolle

#23. Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.

Leonardo DiCaprio