Top 100 Quotes About A Diamond
#1. Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
Michael Diamond
#2. I Am ... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
Neil Diamond
#3. There was in her the glow of the real diamond among glass imitations.
Leo Tolstoy
#4. None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
Lena Dunham
#5. The problem in Burma is the problem in Egypt, the problem you refer to in Yemen, and the problem in a lot of these countries in the world: that you can get stuck in the process of transition, in what's been called a competitive authoritarian ... a pseudo democratic regime.
Larry Diamond
#6. Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor.
Nicholas Sparks
#7. Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.
Chad Michael Murray
#8. Two people can illustrate crudity to you.
The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.
The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.
Idries Shah
#9. Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven.
Ally Carter
#10. I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.
Neil Diamond
#11. Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.
Kenneth Edmonds
#12. It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.
Cilla Black
#13. When you find a diamond that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you get an idea before any one else, you take out a patent on it : it is yours. So with me : I own the stars, because nobody else before me ever thought of owning them.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#14. I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of.
Patty Loveless
#15. Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers
Anne Rice
#16. Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo
#17. I don't like flowers, chocolate, cakes or diamonds either, I am definitely not a hard one to impress.
Pushpa Rana
#18. Marie-Laure says, I heard that the diamond is like a piece of light from the original world. Before it fell. A piece of light rained to earth from God.
Anthony Doerr
#19. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!
A.A. Bell
#20. I don't really go back over my old shows, but I'll see them occasionally, mostly I want to go back and change things about the character as I look at them.
Dustin Diamond
#21. Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.
Leona Lewis
#22. Diamond Dallas saved my life. He didn't have to, but that's the kind of guy he is. He's helped so many people with his DDP Yoga. It's just incredible with the lives he's changing, the lives he's affecting. I am so honored to be part of that.
Jake Roberts
#23. You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?
Dustin Diamond
#24. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#25. I certainly got the jokes within the joke, dressing up in a wet suit, sitting in a Twingo, scaling a rubber mountain, dressing up and stealing a diamond, of course. If not now, when?
Pierce Brosnan
#26. I've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.
Dustin Diamond
#27. Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
Langston Hughes
#28. There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of Silence in all its multifacted, diamond splendor that heals all grief, all wounds, all questions.
Andrew Harvey
#29. Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.
Debasish Mridha
#30. I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.
Dustin Diamond
#31. The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.
Bob Diamond
#32. I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.
Neil Diamond
#33. In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!
Jim Diamond
#34. I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
Dustin Diamond
#35. You are that blue-white diamond, so treat yourself like a Tiffany.
Sharon Law Tucker
#36. My hatred is diamond-hard.
Jim Goad
#37. No moon, sun, diamond, hands - fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.
Frida Kahlo
#39. Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look weak and stupid in front of 17 million people. That's just not gonna happen.
Dustin Diamond
#40. Drinking coffee in the morning and throughout the day has been a routine of millions of people worldwide and there have been numerous reports of its benefits. What should be remembered though is that too much coffee can also be dangerous to the mind and body.
Chanel Diamond
#41. But receive much less social support from friendships
Jared Diamond
#42. And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.
Kanye West
#43. All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop causing new and unanticipated problems while it is solving the problems that it previously produced.
Jared Diamond
#44. Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
Neil Diamond
#45. You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.
Nicky Oppenheimer
#46. Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#47. I wrote you, you are mine," it continued, its voice as hard as its diamond eyes. "But I do not write everything you do and think. I do not write every decision you make. Not because I cannot-but because I will not.
Ashlee Willis
#48. I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
Dustin Diamond
#49. I'm a sliver-thin light, diamond sharp, that can slip through gaps in the world we know. I will come into your dreams and speak soft words when you think of me. There is no happy ever after - but there is an afterwards.
This isn't our ending.
Rosamund Lupton
#50. Writing is like making jewelry -jeweler doesn't make a diamond, he polishes and cuts it, but the gem is from God.
Bela Abel
#51. One day they'll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.
Turcois Ominek
#52. The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.
Hill Harper
#53. To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records.
Chino Moreno
#54. Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder than diamond.
Terry Pratchett
#55. While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.
Bill Dedman
#56. In a flash, at a trumpet crash, I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.
Wesley Hill
#57. The lion-as proud as the diamond bright, Though the spell may be clouding that radiant light-in the death of the sun what's amiss will then mend, while the raven is dying discloses the end.
Kerstin Gier
#58. The single yellow diamond stud he wore in his left ear twinkled like a giggle in the morning sunlight.
Malorie Blackman
#59. Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits
Jared Diamond
#60. Mallory Quinn was sweet, warm, and caring. She was a white picket fence and two-point-four kids. She was a diamond ring. She was someone's keeper.
Jill Shalvis
#61. I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours.
Neil Diamond
#62. Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes.
Lou Diamond Phillips
#63. Although the flagship brand, Pepsi-Cola, has always been second to Coca-Cola, the Frito-Lay division is ten times larger than its largest competitor, Diamond Foods, Inc., of San Francisco. Its products take up whole aisles at Walmart.
John Seabrook
#64. Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.
Bob Dylan
#65. The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.
C.S. Lewis
#66. I don't see many people with longevity anymore. Everything was harder when I started, and you had to take acting lessons, do theater parts, work on connections and then get lucky. The technology is good, but it's also a hindrance for longevity.
Dustin Diamond
#67. In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets.
Jared Diamond
#68. I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff - in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
Kate Winslet
#69. Curiosity is the fire of desires that burns the dust to reveal the diamond.
Debasish Mridha
#70. I told him that I would give him five hundred dollars if he was to help me kidnap her ass.
Diamond Johnson
#72. I once lost a bill betting on the Red Sox,
... But that's another topic.
Diamond D
#73. A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone's success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other's silver!
Israelmore Ayivor
#74. He certainly must have money, for he has just showered Jane with jewelry. Her engagement ring is a diamond cluster so big that it looks like a plaster on Jane's fat paw.
L.M. Montgomery
#75. If he was right, here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man.
Wilkie Collins
#76. Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.
Rabindranath Tagore
#77. If these modern peoples could inflict the most barbaric treatment and persecution on another group of human beings, then there was something very, very deplorable with our species. No amount of education or technological progress was going to make any difference in altering human savagery.
Mitchell Diamond
#78. 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
#79. Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
Neil Diamond
#80. Black Diamond?" Hadrian asked. "Is that the city patrol?"
Albert chuckled, and Royce shook his head, looking at Hadrian as if he had dropped his pants in public.
Michael J. Sullivan
#81. Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest.
Robert B. Leighton
#82. For those of us who question, your whole life becomes a question. Do you then reach some level of understanding, and then it's static? I don't think so" (age twenty-two, unlabeled)
Lisa Diamond
#83. Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws.
Wes Fesler
#84. If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn't matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.
Bob Diamond
#85. James scoffed. "We are not being held prisoner. You're so dramatic."
"Oh yeah, she just kidnapped us and told us the only way we're going to be let go is if we go to other alien planets and steal from them. You're right, James, I'm clearly overly overreacting," Kat snapped.
L. Taylor
#86. 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
#87. I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.
Neil Diamond
#88. Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist continues to grow as a person and as a healer.
Jed Diamond
#89. There are some souls, bright and precious, which, like gold and silver, may be subdued by the fiery trial, and yield to new moulds; but there are others, pure and solid as the diamond, which may be shivered to pieces, yet in every fragment retain their indelible characteristics.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#90. Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.
Dorothy Parker
#91. I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.
Neil Diamond
#92. I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.
Selma Diamond
#93. With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.
Jared Diamond
#95. Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.
Jason Aldean
#96. Gabriel noticed with satisfaction the way Julia intentionally fingered one of her diamond earrings, as if she understood his revelations and received them gladly. As if she knew he was revealing his love for her through art. His heart swelled.
Sylvain Reynard
#99. The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
Jared Diamond
#100. Steel can be tempered and hardened, and so can men. In this world of struggle, which was not designed for softies, a man must be harder than what hits him. Yes, he must be diamond-hard. Then he'll not be "fed up" with his little personal troubles.
Herbert Newton Casson
