Top 100 Diamond Quotes
#1. I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.
Nick Lowe
#2. I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West
#3. In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market.
Arcadi Gaydamak
#4. To grow in your passion for what Jesus has done, increase your understanding of what He has done.
Never be content with your grasp of the gospel. The gospel is life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than any diamond. Its depths man will never exhaust.
C.J. Mahaney
#5. They may signify wealth, but they can actually mean so much more-like committment, family, and love. And there's nothing like a perfect diamond to remind you that you'll never be perfect - the truth is, all you can do is try.
Nicole Richie
#6. Mr. nelson sighed and stalked across the room to me. He thrust the velvet box into my hands. I cracked the box, and the sound echoed through the room. A glittering diamond stared back at me. But it wasn't just any diamond. It was two carats of commitment in a platinum setting.
Katie Ashley
#7. When the sun shines o'er the loch and sparkles on the water like diamond drops, ye know one thing:
somewhere there's a MacLean who is smilin'.
Karen Hawkins
#8. I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.
Cat Power
#9. There is no fundamental, unalterable difference between things: all is flux, all is perishable. The surface of your being is constantly crumbling; within however you grow hard as a diamond. And perhaps it is this hard, magnetic core inside you which attracts others to you willy-nilly.
Henry Miller
#10. I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked ...
Janet Fitch
#11. If my forehead were not like a diamond, harder than flint, I would display more holy fear and a far deeper contrition of spirit. Woe
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#12. Your rebel soul shines like a diamond pulled from dust: bright, clear and flawless.
Jay Long
#14. Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm.
A.J. Dalton
#15. Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body.
Thomm Quackenbush
#16. A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#17. Beneath the vast diamond sky, I felt both all important and utterly significant, the goddess and the damned in equal measure.
Sarah Ockler
#18. All I want is your loving, feel the earth move when we kiss. I don't need a big ol' diamond, but I'll take it baby if you insist.
Mindy McCready
#19. We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity.
Karl Marx
#20. The way the diamond caused people to reasses her
their palpable appreciation that Drew was loved by someone, was someone worth loving
Daphne Kalotay
#21. The gravitas in a leader is like clarity in diamond.
Pearl Zhu
#22. That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.
Stephen King
#23. I've never had a diamond before, and now I've got a diamond surrounded by other diamonds and diamonds in places where, frankly, you don't need diamonds at all, and I would have been happy with a piece of twine.
Summer Phoenix
#24. A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.
Marilyn Monroe
#26. My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.
Claudia Black
#27. I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!
Jules Verne
#29. Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with
Thomas Carlyle
#30. I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece,
But my life been good since I started finding peace.
Nas
#31. The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.
Shelly Crane
#32. Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.
John Green
#33. What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'
Chris Evans
#34. The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.
Francis Alexander Durivage
#35. In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.
Randy Travis
#36. Here is the blackness of space, the myriad stars gleaming like diamond dust or, as some people would say, like great balls of exploding hydrogen a very long way off. But then, some people would say anything. A
Terry Pratchett
#37. For when all is equilibrated, when all is beheld from without all, there is joy, joy, joy that is but one facet of a diamond, every other facet whereof is more joyful than joy itself.
Aleister Crowley
#38. You can't work me, Liv. I know you're a bitch, I know you're cranky, I know you're loving, I know you're smart and funny, I know you're giving and generous. I'm not walking off because you're not flawless. I don't want a diamond, I want a wife.
- Marc to Olivia
Lauren Dane
#39. Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.
Daisaku Ikeda
#40. 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
#41. Flowers say you're sorry.
A date says you've learnt your lesson.
A diamond says both the above.
All three and you're making her suspicious.
Saleem Sharma
#42. A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence.
Vladimir Nabokov
#43. Hey, y'know what money can buy? A solid gold gun. That shoots diamond bullets.
I call it "The Compensator". Whatta ya think?
Daniel Way
#44. A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
#45. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
Mark Nepo
#46. As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.
Chris Alexander
#47. Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
Rita Mae Brown
#48. Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.
Chuck Tanner
#49. One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.
Nicky Oppenheimer
#50. It really is a shame that through our sad neglect of wonders, hopefulness, and trust we allowed so much clutter and debris to build up in the space that once connected us to Diamond Green.
Michael Chabon
#51. Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
Natalie Goldberg
#52. There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.
Philippe Djian
#53. She explained that 'diamond friends' were better than plain old 'best friends' because diamonds were not only rare, they were forever.
Melanie Shawn
#54. Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief ... As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought.
Janet Lembke
#55. A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.
Horace Walpole
#56. They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
Eric Clapton
#57. The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows
Barbara Kingsolver
#58. My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.
Georgina Chapman
#59. Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
Chanakya
#60. The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#61. Claire glanced up from where she had been pacing, twisting the two-carat canary diamond ring on her third finger. She had not noticed her mother's entrance. She stopped pacing. She knew how much her mother loved that
Mara Stone
#62. He sparked on his body that reflect like mini mirrors of diamond
Stephenie Meyer
#63. I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
Anita Loos
#64. The heart of woman is like a diamond, who need a good skilled hunter.
Eyden I.
#65. I can't get clean." "That's because you're polishing a diamond. How much more brilliant do you want it to shine, my lovely?
Kristen Ashley
#66. Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.
Lionel Hampton
#67. It's just a two-man con," said Shadow. "Like the bishop and the diamond necklace and the cop. Like the guy with the fiddle, and the guy who wants to buy the fiddle, and the poor sap in between them who pays for the fiddle. Two men, who appear to be on opposite sides, playing the same game.
Neil Gaiman
#68. First I tried some Neil Diamond, thinking that if anything was going to make the undead run for the hills it would be a nice, loud rendition of Cracklin' Rosie. But those coldsickles actually seemed to enjoy it. Very disturbing.
Mike Cooley
#69. By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#70. If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.
Richard Dawkins
#71. Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
Lionel Hampton
#72. David gave me the Hope Diamond gaze.
"Will you be mine forever?" The words escaped my lips.
Nely Cab
#73. She wasn't the desert or the flowers. She wasn't ice or steel. She was a goddamn diamond, formed under terrible pressure, as hard and unforgiving as the rock Logan had put on her finger.
Kit Rocha
#74. Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea ...
Anne Sexton
#75. Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.
Shannon L. Alder
#76. A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.
Elsa Peretti
#77. She was a Tri Delt, majoring in finding a diamond ring.
Jane Smiley
#78. She was a diamond in a quarry full of quartz.
Evelyn Skye
#79. 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
#80. I'm getting a diamond-hard boner just thinking about it.
Tim Dorsey
#81. For Courtney's whole life, seeing the world had only been a dream, but now, as Adrian Diamond's daughter, it could be a reality.
Michelle Madow
#82. You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!
Rumi
#83. Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.
Andrej Pejic
#84. My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.
Erin Wasson
#85. Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.
Michael Buble
#87. I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.
Stephen Malkmus
#88. New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.
Truman Capote
#89. The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.
Theodore Parker
#90. Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut ...
Eric Thomas
#91. With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
William Cowper
#92. Finally the little flat spoons lay still on the glass plates. Hennie looked rather exhausted, but she pulled on her white gloves again. She had some trouble with her diamond wrist-watch; it got in her way.
Katherine Mansfield
#93. I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families
sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.
Russell Baker
#94. The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron
and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring
embody the American dream of Eden.
Lewis H. Lapham
#95. MY OLD HEART was broken. It'd been replaced with something not of flesh and blood but diamond and immortality.
Pepper Winters
#96. Challenges are your stepping stones. No one can explore their potential without meeting obstacles. Bear the pressure to emerge like a sparkling diamond.
Anastasia Verg
#97. I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.
Curtis Jackson
#98. Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#99. The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
Max Muller
#100. Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure
Lemony Snicket
