Top 100 Quotes About A Diamond
#1. In the sky the sun spit its golden, incandescent venom out at the glittering afternoon. A yellow, screaming banshee sparkling bitch of a diamond confidently suspended in a cloudless sky.
Gerard Harrison
#2. Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure
Lemony Snicket
#3. The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
Max Muller
#4. Later, Barbara Jean would remember looking at those eyes and thinking, This must be what the sky looks like if you see it through a diamond.
Edward Kelsey Moore
#5. Her idea of a romantic setting is one that has a diamond in it. If you feel the need to marry a doctor, I suggest a dermatologist. Good hours, free Retin-A.
Rita Rudner
#6. Katherine Bone is an author after my own heart! DUKE BY DAY, ROGUE BY NIGHT is a sexy, adventurous romp guaranteed to keep you reading into the wee hours of the night." Shana Galen, author of WHEN YOU GIVE A DUKE A DIAMOND
Katherine Bone
#7. Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut ...
Eric Thomas
#8. New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.
Truman Capote
#9. 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
#10. I'm getting a diamond-hard boner just thinking about it.
Tim Dorsey
#11. 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
#12. She was a diamond in a quarry full of quartz.
Evelyn Skye
#13. She was a Tri Delt, majoring in finding a diamond ring.
Jane Smiley
#14. Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.
Shannon L. Alder
#15. Come up and be a kite,
On a diamond flight!
Kate Bush
#16. My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
Maira Kalman
#17. I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack
in a diamond that becomes visible only when viewed through a magnifying lens; normally it is hidden by the brilliance of the stone.
Mohsin Hamid
#18. It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her.
Eowyn Ivey
#19. But not princess-y in a prissy way. No, I would be a total badass, with a long black leather coat and a diamond scepter that doubles as a weapon. Yeah, a weapon!
Rick Riordan
#20. I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community.
Mr. T
#21. Knowledge is the beauty of a diamond, but wisdom is the shining reflection of that beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#22. I'm a free spirit. A spirit that evolves. I'm a diamond. I'm just refining it. Polishing it. Glossing it up.
Simeon Rice
#24. I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.
Jim Jarmusch
#25. Each of us is like a diamond, and each of us has the potential to be brilliant.
Simon T. Bailey
#26. 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
#27. The heart of woman is like a diamond, who need a good skilled hunter.
Eyden I.
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
Eric Clapton
#31. 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
#32. There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.
Philippe Djian
#33. Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
Natalie Goldberg
#34. Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.
Chuck Tanner
#35. As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.
Chris Alexander
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.
John Green
#44. 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
#46. I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!
Jules Verne
#47. A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.
Marilyn Monroe
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#54. Your rebel soul shines like a diamond pulled from dust: bright, clear and flawless.
Jay Long
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West
#58. The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.
Aristotle.
#59. A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
Kabir
#60. I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough.
Michael Dorris
#61. Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.
Emily Dickinson
#62. The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
Abraham Kuyper
#63. Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.
Morihei Ueshiba
#64. Naughtiness is a diamond of childhood.
Aabid Surti
#65. A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.
Solange Nicole
#68. Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary behond comprehension. But it also made him free.
John L. Parker Jr.
#69. Create memories every day. You will grow a diamond on the way.
Debasish Mridha
#70. A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
Confucius
#71. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
#72. Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#73. I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can't even bark ...
Mary Oliver
#74. don't lose a diamond while you're busy chasing glitter.
Unknown
#76. Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
Edward Young
#77. Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever
Anita Loos
#78. I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at ping pong with their husband? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.
Elizabeth Taylor
#79. In an era when the regular worthy rhythm of life is less eye-catching than doing something extraordinary, I am reassured that I am merely the second sovereign to celebrate a diamond jubilee.
Elizabeth II
#80. A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty.
Charles R. Swindoll
#81. A movie is a diamond and suddenly someone is seeing this facet or that facet. No matter how good you think you are, there's stuff you're not seeing.
Fred Schepisi
#82. A diamond is a lump of coal that did well under pressure
Proverb
#83. Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman ... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
Andreas Capellanus
#84. Yet truth is a diamond; even mishandles, smeared with grease, or buried in mud, it cannot be marred and waits for one with a cloth to polish it clean.
Sigmund Brouwer
#85. A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.
Thomas Browne
#86. Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.
Nicky Gumbel
#87. The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth.
Arthur C. Clarke
#90. While the angels sing, I'd ask you to marry me, give you the sun for a diamond ring, if I could do those things.
R. Kelly
#91. I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.
Maggie Cheung
#92. I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.
Henny Youngman
#93. You don't create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.
Julie Ann Dawson
#94. She was a woman for whom a man would buy a diamond ring or a new car, just to cheer her up.
Janet Fitch
#95. She ought to have recognized love's scarcity early on. If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.
Kristin Hannah
#96. The nut of the thing is that if what you make is hard like a diamond, you can put it anywhere. You can put it up your and it will still be beautiful.
Iggy Pop
#97. If you take a diamond that's raw and you put one face to it, it has that one face, and then you've gotta find another face. At the end, you're going to have this diamond that's everything you've done. I feel that's the way you should look at it because that puts you in a constant state of progress.
Suraj Sharma
#98. The size of a diamond doesn't indicate the size of my love for you. The earth hasn't produced a diamond that big because my love for you knows no bounds. Ronin Black
Lorelei James
#99. True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
Jim Bishop
#100. Grace used to let her play with these - a pearl bracelet, a diamond ring,
Rick Riordan
