Rough Diamond Sayings

#1. The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Daniel Defoe

#2. The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

Orison S. Marden

#3. He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.

Emily Bronte

#4. 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

#5. As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Gloria Swanson

#6. I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough.

Michael Dorris

#7. But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

Waylon Jennings

#8. Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

Larry David

#9. You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

Kenneth Edmonds

#10. 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

#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. Hard-bitten had a double meaning: bitten hard by life, like her, or clamping meanly down on other people. But, as though belying his thoughts, she said, "I hope your days are good."
"If only. My eyes, you know, are like Swiss cheese, the doctor says. I see through the holes.

Edward Hoagland

#13. 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

#14. The victim's hand was contracted into a fist except for the middle digit, which was rigidly extended.

Carl Hiaasen

#15. The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

#16. Because of diabetes and all the other health problems that accompany obesity, today's children may turn out to be the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will actually be shorter than that of their parents. The

Michael Pollan

#17. I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

Emmy Rossum

#18. You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.

Katherine Paterson

#19. Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he's willed her to do so.
There was a moment of silence. And then in a rough voice the man whose life she saved spoke four words that changed everything ... changed her life, changed her destiny: She. Comes. With. Me.

J.R. Ward

#20. It made the difference between my life and death.

Suzanne Collins

#21. It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

Lord Chesterfield

#22. Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.

Mary J. Blige

#23. Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.

Tina Fey

#24. The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.

Stephen F. Lynch

#25. Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial.

T.F. Hodge

#26. As a wolf, I'm a diamond in the rough. I crack jokes. My whole life is about trying, about speaking up in order to be seen, about howling with laughter or howling out how I see the world.

Jessi Klein

#27. With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#28. I had a tutor who wanted me to believe that mercy is a kind of sorrow and that since evil is the motive of sorrow, evil is also the motive of mercy. I thought that my tutor was old and cruel, and maybe he was - but now I think he was also right.

Holly Black

#29. Each of us may be a diamond-in-the-rough, needing only a muse and a change in circumstance to go from humble caterpillar to majestic butterfly." - Peter Whitmer, Ph.D. ~from The Inner Elvis: A Psychological Biography of Elvis Aaron Presley

Peter Whitmer

#30. I'm not living, I'm just killing time.

Radiohead

#31. Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#32. My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

Mother Jones

#33. 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

#34. Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Kenneth Edmonds