Top 34 Diamond In The Rough Quotes
#1. Proof had this ability to not only nurture my talent, but to see that diamond in the rough when a million people could be looking at the same thing... and just not see it.
Eminem
#2. Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.
Kenneth Edmonds
#3. I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough.
Michael Dorris
#4. You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.
Katherine Paterson
#5. I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.'
Jada Pinkett Smith
#7. Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
Larry David
#8. Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.
Tina Fey
#9. Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial.
T.F. Hodge
#10. As a wolf, I'm a diamond in the rough. I crack jokes. My whole life is about trying, about speaking up in order to be seen, about howling with laughter or howling out how I see the world.
Jessi Klein
#11. Each of us may be a diamond-in-the-rough, needing only a muse and a change in circumstance to go from humble caterpillar to majestic butterfly." - Peter Whitmer, Ph.D. ~from The Inner Elvis: A Psychological Biography of Elvis Aaron Presley
Peter Whitmer
#12. Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune
#13. My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
Mother Jones
#14. There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.
Michael Winter
#15. He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.
Emily Bronte
#16. Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he's willed her to do so.
There was a moment of silence. And then in a rough voice the man whose life she saved spoke four words that changed everything ... changed her life, changed her destiny: She. Comes. With. Me.
J.R. Ward
#17. Any time you change something classic or iconic, you're going to have some part of the fan base up in arms.
Jim Lee
#18. Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.
Alan Dapre
#19. When people put you on the pedestal, don't come off it acting like you're humble. Because if they put you up there, that shows how high they can see. Stay there and pull them up, and they'll grow faster.
Victor L. Wooten
#20. The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.
Orison S. Marden
#21. I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.
Hope Solo
#22. It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.
Patrick Rothfuss
#23. Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave Flaubert
#25. Hard-bitten had a double meaning: bitten hard by life, like her, or clamping meanly down on other people. But, as though belying his thoughts, she said, "I hope your days are good."
"If only. My eyes, you know, are like Swiss cheese, the doctor says. I see through the holes.
Edward Hoagland
#26. So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved
and don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough,
Yeah there are days that we all feel like we're messed up,
But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough ...
Britt Nicole
#27. The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
John Lanchester
#28. The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe
#29. 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.
Lord Chesterfield
#30. And you're not Juliet, dicking around with Romeo like she's got piss for brains and no respect for her house. You're loyal. To your dad, if not to the Titans.
Kati Wilde
#31. Life is a very scary reality; you just have to keep moving ahead, doing what you do".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#32. Every time a person goes to the mall, she loses a little piece of her soul
Tom Robbins
#33. You're hard sometimes, but you're genuine and easy to love. You give people everything you have to give, Silas. You're a rough diamond amongst pearls. You look like a dirty stone amongst the sheen, but your value far exceeds the silky dull shine of a pearl.
Criss Copp
#34. How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.
Anthony Hopkins
