Polished Look Quotes

#1. People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look
like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Vanna Bonta

#2. I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.

Anne Robinson

#3. Don't count the days, make the days count.

Muhammad Ali

#4. I wanted to be like an actor or a comedian for a little while, because I was always wanting to make people laugh, and being stupid, so I never thought I'd be doing a job where you always have to look nice, and polished and sophisticated.

Gemma Ward

#5. I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Alice Walker

#6. Yes, indeed, I am the stuff, the prize property, the recaptured trophy he will put up on the mantelpiece, in a rage every time I move a millimeter or look less polished, less tarted up than he thinks I should look. In a rage, every time I disappoint him. Which will happen every day.

Kaimana Wolff

#7. I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

Andrew Wiles

#8. You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

Billy Joel

#9. He had sleepless eyes, his mouth a little swollen, the deeply tanned skin somehow burnished. Kestrel thought that she, too, must look like this: polished by desire, the way a river stone holds a luster from having been made so smooth.

Marie Rutkoski

#10. Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

#11. In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to be a clock. Now the kid is in bigger trouble for carrying a device that could bring Texas into the future.

Conan O'Brien

#12. I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

Donald E. Graham

#13. When I look down into this fucked out cunt of a whore I feel the whole world beneath me, a world tottering and crumbling, a world used up and polished like a leper's skull.

Henry Miller

#14. Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.

Therese Of Lisieux

#15. Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to look dated. Mixing up your accessories adds interest to an outfit, and can make you look much more modern and polished.

Stacy London

#16. Perfectly coiffed, every seam pressed, and just the right break of the trousers over his freshly polished wingtips. But it's the tilt of his head and the purpose in his stride that makes him look like he belongs.

LeAnne Burnett Morse

#17. If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you more seriously if you look polished.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#18. I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#19. For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential. It's satisfying to see that sentence shrink, snap into place, and ultimately emerge in a more polished form: clear, economical, sharp.

Francine Prose

#20. Defined brows instantly make you look more polished.

Bobbi Brown

#21. You in one piece?" he asked. His pack lay open in the snow and he was cinching the last strap of a crampon onto his boot.

Blake Crouch

#22. It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

Michael Gove

#23. We see what we want to see when we look at someone. Like a diamond before it has been cut. We can guess at its brilliance but can't see the faults until the stone has been cut and polished. Only then can we glimpse inside and see the occlusions and the clarity.

M.J. Rose

#24. As he slipped the lock into place again he realized his hand was trembling. He held up his shaky fingers where he could see them better and wondered at the equally weak flutter in his chest.

Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it.

Nora Sakavic

#25. Let us trust the power of love.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the unity of His purposes.

Grace Aguilar

#27. At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

F. Sionil Jose

#28. I used to like cufflinks, but I got too lazy for them. I realized I don't need them for a polished tailoring look, so more times than not, I skip them.

Justin Tuck

#29. I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

Samantha Power

#30. I'm still trying to defog the bathroom mirror to see the dream for what it clearly is.

From A Wildflower

#31. I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass.

James Joyce