Polishes Quotes

#1. Comfortable (favorable) circumstance 'polishes' one and uncomfortable (unfavorable) circumstances 'moulds' one. What problem do we have with either of the two?

Dada Bhagwan

#2. Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

Phil Collins

#3. Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

Mark Twain

#4. Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.

Kim Hyesoon

#5. Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

Kathryn Kuhlman

#6. Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with

Thomas Carlyle

#7. Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

Lord Chesterfield

#8. I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.

G. Hannelius

#9. A poet is an unpaid laborer of a mine where he digs into the mountain to find rough diamonds. He then polishes them with his imagination and emotion to share with everyone.

Debasish Mridha

#10. A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman who sits at home and polishes her nails. It's the one who works, who is a doer, who does things by dressing. She's very strongly projecting an image of herself as an individual.

Oscar De La Renta

#11. Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft

Robin Sharma

#12. I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.

Gary Numan

#13. [God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes until one day there emerges His vision ... God has not yet finished with us.

Billy Graham

#14. Writing is like making jewelry -jeweler doesn't make a diamond, he polishes and cuts it, but the gem is from God.

Bela Abel

#15. I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond.

Mark Munoz

#16. A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty That polishes the dart.

Robert Burns

#17. Criticism polishes my mirror.

Rumi

#18. You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

Eric Hoffer

#19. It is the rub that polishes the jewel," Enso Roshi says. "Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.

T. Scott McLeod

#20. I did a really fun orange nail polish with my friend Deborah Lippmann. All of her nail polishes are named after songs so we called this one "Lara's Theme" which is really cute. It's a bright orange which is really good for summer or cheering yourself up in winter.

Lara Stone

#21. So I shall just imagine myself for a fortnight or so at one side of the fireplace of a country cottage, with a sympathetic soul opposite me. And I shall go on talking, in a low voice while the sea sounds in the distance and overhead the great black flood of wind polishes the bright stars.

Ford Madox Ford

#22. Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Thomas Holcroft

#23. Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.

Tommy Lasorda

#24. If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

Gore Vidal

#25. Boko Haram will soon know the strength of our collective will

Muhammadu Buhari

#26. A one-eyed man with a knife in hand, looking for someone else's eye to poke out.

Veronica Roth

#27. Once upon a time, I'd come close to being killed in the big trash bin outside. This counts as nostalgia for someone like me (p. 317).
Kinsey Millhone in V is for Vengeance

Sue Grafton

#28. The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.

Robert Trivers

#29. I thought this director gig was just one of those side roads we take at times on the journey to our true purpose. Now I see that in God's economy, nothing is wasted

Gay Idle

#30. I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target.

Nicole Gale Anderson

#31. It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

Sherrod Brown

#32. Teenagers are people too!

Joyce Meyer

#33. Rain don't fall on a with if she doesn't want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be thankful."
"Thankful for what?" said Tiffany.
"That I'll get dry later.

Terry Pratchett

#34. There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

Rick Astley

#35. But interestingly its [Star City's] technology is all 1970s - still. In fact, it's alarming because you think, "You're not going to send someone up into space in something that old, are you?" But it works and it always has worked and it doesn't fail and it's incredibly reliable.

Danny Boyle

#36. Money has the power to get, all that you want.
Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want.

Akash Lakhotia

#37. Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

Bum Phillips