Polish A Turd Quotes

#1. You can't polish a turd.

Stephen King

#2. I was talking to my friend from New York yesterday, and I used the expression, 'You can't polish a turd'. He looked at me, disgusted, and said, 'No, you can't, but you can roll it in glitter'. He's a lovely guy but I wouldn't want to go to a craft fair with him

Steve Williams

#3. I like to work with people who have a sense of putting a song over, and can sing in tune, and with passion. With technology you can polish a turd, but there's still no button you can press for passion.

Tony Visconti

#4. Bruce Percy, a brilliant landscape photographer, once said to me, "You can't polish a turd." Wise words.

David DuChemin

#5. Apparently, it was possible to polish a turd.

Liliana Hart

#6. If it's not working you can't polish a turd.

Lee Unkrich

#7. Still as I've said all along, you can't polish a turd.

Alan Bennett

#8. I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas with utmost perfection, yet stay free enough to allow improvisatory nuance? This has immediate application in almost every area of life, but especially in performance.

Joshua Roman

#9. We were just meant to be and fate in all her conniving, wicked glory, wouldn't have had this union any other way.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

#10. It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.

Roger Ebert

#11. My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.

Lee Daniels

#12. My teeth are all right, but they are not American teeth, and my hair is not thick and luscious. Los Angeles is dense with beautiful people, and most of the men who are aspiring actors are 5ft 5in, so I tower above them.

Stephen Merchant

#13. I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself.

Brian Michael Bendis

#14. I'd like to see more stand-up routines venture into depicting tragedy. It's conventional to give people a humorous cathartic release; now I'd love to hear stand-up tragedy that would reduce the audience to exhausted tears.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell; hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end . . .

Paul Theroux

#16. The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.

Rod Judkins

#17. The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

George Lois

#18. Only someone who has Asperger's would read a subprime mortgage bond prospectus,

Michael Lewis

#19. It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

Frederica Mathewes-Green