Burnish'd Quotes

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

William Shakespeare

#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. As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

Marcus Samuelsson

#4. I have been transcribing those poems and considering how lucky we are to live longer than flowers, even if not much happens to us.

Kate Bernheimer

#5. States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.

John Lancaster Spalding

#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 intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Gloria Naylor

#8. I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.

Julian Fellowes

#9. 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

#10. Things are currently the other way around in [Vladimir] Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever.

Garry Kasparov

#11. 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

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

George Santayana

#13. Prince is king to me. As this half-naked, short black guy who looked like a girl in the 70s and 80s, he was talking about women in a way that was very unusual because he didn't objectify them.

Robyn

#14. We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#15. A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

William Least Heat-Moon

#16. Boys don't go for fat girls. They talk about wanting 'real women', but what they mean is big tits. Not thighs, not bellies, not fat bums. They want skin and bone.

Claire Hennessy

#17. The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Florence Scovel Shinn

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

Michael Gove

#19. You can dress up a pig, but it's still a pig.

Laura Thalassa

#20. Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. If you have only a day to live; fill it with study and sex.

M.F. Moonzajer

#22. 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