Shined Up Quotes

#1. It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so shined up from rubbing against the denim that no one could tell it had ever been an ordinary stone.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#2. Shined, combed, brushed and gorgeous

Anthony Burgess

#3. A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

William Wycherley

#4. A Spaniard and a Pole worked in the barbershop where we got our hair cut. An Italian shined our shoes. A Croat washed our car. This was America.

Ilya Ilf

#5. Sometimes the heart of a weary soul needs a simple moment of love and light shined upon it, or reflected back to it. That momentary connection might be the one thing that inspires a person to take one more step and move in a positive new direction.

Molly Friedenfeld

#6. I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.

Jay Johnstone

#7. I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki.

Eric Hernandez

#8. It was an enchanted place, he said, designed to keep kids safe from the monsters, on an island where the sun shined every day and nobody ever got sick or died.

Ransom Riggs

#9. Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.

Harlan Coben

#10. I remember my mom saying that when I was little, I had this light that shined really big, and that she'd watched my light become very dark.

Jodie Sweetin

#11. He was beautiful, but even more so in his formal attire, with his dark hair and pale eyes. His glistening sword hung at his side, and his tall boots shined in the candlelight. The

Serena Valentino

#12. Light never shined on a man like me and that was certain. In a lot of ways, that made men like Daddy the lucky ones to have only ever known the darkness. Knowing only darkness, a man doesn't have to get his heart broken in search of the light. I envied him for that.

David Joy

#13. Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Edmund Spenser

#14. Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart.

Cassia Leo

#15. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

Rod Blagojevich

#16. You know, for myself, my personal journey has been a very fortunate one and I would say to people it's like the stars lined up and the skies opened up and the sun shined and I met the right people - was at the right time. And, most importantly, you know I love what I do.

Phillip Lim

#17. He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

Beverly Cleary

#18. A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

Ann Petry

#19. When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.

Chuck Brown

#20. The domestic violence policy has been given to our players. My personal view is there's no place in our society for it. I think, especially with the emphasis and education that's out there now, let's hope better light will be shined on this area.

Mike McCarthy

#21. You were cut?" "Yeah, but I'm okay. Just a little sore." Devilishness shined in Malik's eyes. "What was the weapon again? Paring knife? Melon baller?" He squeezed his thumb and forefinger together. "One of those cinnamon-flavored toothpicks?

Chloe Neill

#22. We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

Melinda Gates

#23. The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.

Woodrow Wilson

#24. Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Samuel Butler

#25. The sun shined and winked through wind-rustled leaves to paint the roadway with an ever-shifting mosaic of light and shadows.

Stackpole, Michael A.

#26. He opened a window in my heart, and the light of the world shined in.

David Letterman

#27. If both of your shoes are shined, then your best foot will always be forward.

Maryrose Wood

#28. After slipping the condom on, he rolled on top of her, shoved her hair out of her face and held it while he got lost in those sea green eyes that, in a darkened room, shined bright.
He wanted her. And it wasn't just the sex. He wanted the whole nutty package.

Adrienne Giordano

#29. If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

Louis L'Amour

#30. and shined the flashlight up

Pippa DaCosta

#31. She wanted to find a loose thread in the twilight. Pull it. See what shined so brightly behind it, through the snags.

Ainslie Hogarth

#32. The reality is, what writers write and the way they live can be as different as a lump of coal and a diamond. The written life is shined to a deceptive gloss.

Donald Miller

#33. Even before he left the room, - and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that he did love her; that he had loved her; that he would love her.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#34. So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined.

Stephenie Meyer

#35. God doesn't wait for us to get ourselves polished, shined, proper, and without blemish - God comes to us and meets us and blesses us while we are still in the middle of the mess we created.

Rob Bell

#36. Both slaves had been oiled until their flesh shined like polished ebony, outlining every detail of their muscles.

Myra Hargrave McIlvain

#37. You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.

Alan Cohen

#38. They celebrated the sins, while the kindness continued to weep in the corner. The swords of the demons shined brighter, while the wings of the angels were crumpled and bled.

Akshay Vasu