Quotes About Rough Diamonds

#1. 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

#2. I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#3. Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Thomas Browne

#4. Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

Joseph Joubert

#5. I may not be perfect but I've always been true
I may not be worthy in your eyes

Avenged Sevenfold

#6. Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe.

Jean Harlow

#7. I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

Lawrence Wright

#8. All the progress in science can't be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses - to smell trouble or just something fishy.

Pawan Mishra

#9. Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.

Dianna Hardy

#10. he wanted to go to bed and sleep for a year.

Kristen Ashley

#11. Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Juvenal

#12. What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

Andre Agassi

#13. Continue this practice no matter what happens or what anyone does to you.

Dalai Lama

#14. I'll lick a leper's neck before I take a lung-full o' your stench, Brother Row.

Mark Lawrence

#15. The alchemy of diamonds from the rough
is to mine every moment.

Gina Greenlee

#16. Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

Joseph Joubert

#17. So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved
and don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough,
Yeah there are days that we all feel like we're messed up,
But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough ...

Britt Nicole

#18. Poetry distracts me from going deeper over ... the edge. it is rough and shiny like black diamonds.it dazzles,it enhances,your everything. Each moment,every memory, you touch.

Emily H. Sturgill

#19. A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

Jimmy Wales

#20. It's easier to be lost than found.

Sarah Dessen

#21. How many times had Rusty reminded Miri, You're my only child. You're my life. So when it comes to doing stupid things, don't. Because I couldn't stand it if I lost you. Do you understand? Now Miri thought she understood. There was a burden to being the only child.

Judy Blume

#22. The rules of the jungle did not apply to those who wrote the rules of the jungle.

Alexander McCall Smith

#23. We're all diamonds in the rough until God gets His hands on us".

~R. Alan Woods [1984]

R. Alan Woods

#24. If I was perfect then this would be easy...

Avenged Sevenfold

#25. Shattered edges of the diamonds rough sets to cut the unsuspecting.

Truth Devour

#26. Flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender skin ...
(the frightful plight tale)

Muse

#27. Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. As hard as the diamonds in your smile,
the wind carries its hammers with no hands
and sustains a moan with no mouth,
seems to cradle solitude in its rough arms like firewood
to be burned in my house as it passes through
and asks, Where does she sparkle from?

B.J. Ward