Diamond Quotes - Page 23

• The owners of a dog which swallowed a diamond worth £12000 had to wait three days until it re-emerged. With a bit of planning it could have been a nice way to propose.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Dog, Nice

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

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• So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone.

  Nia Long

  Thinking, Precious Stones, Looks

  "Nia Long's Simple Two-Step Trick for Instantly Brighter Skin". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Coal, Students

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• Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.

  John Michael Hayes

  Honesty, Cat, Missing

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• A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?

  Pam Brown

  Gratitude, Children, Flower

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

  Mother Jones

  Teacher, Teaching, Diamond In The Rough

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• The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.

  Steve Lawson

  Giving Up, Following Christ, Dirt

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• Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.

  Robert Kennedy

  Baseball, Fighting, People

  "Profiles in Courage". Book by John F. Kennedy Jr., p.9, 1964.

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• The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

  John Tillotson

  Nice, Men, Dust

  John Tillotson (1712). “The works of the most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses ... Together with the rule of faith”, p.386

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• Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Cat, Eye, Gloom

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• These new prospective projects include the Appalachian Connector and the Diamond East projects, both are major new projects that connect the burgeoning supplies from the Marcellus and Utica directly to growing demand on Transco that is anxious to see the supplies coming their way as those markets strive to grow as well.

  Alan Armstrong

  East, Growing, Demand

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• If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.

  Vinod Khosla

  Income, World, Metrics

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• 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

  Free Spirit, Evolve, Refining

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• Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn't matter! As long as the bridge takes you across the other side, it is a good bridge!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bridges, Long, Matter

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• Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Men, Clay, Made

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• Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Being Thankful, Gold, Mountain

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• The real secrets start leaking out when there are too many secrets because people can't remember what's a real secret. There's a very famous line by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy: "If you guard your toothbrushes and your diamonds with equal zeal, you'll lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds." And that's where we are right now.

  Ted Gup

  Real, People, Secret

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Hollywood... Real diamonds, fake breasts.

  Nathan Lane

  Real, Fake, Hollywood

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• I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Taken, Coal

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• 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

  Beautiful, Nuts, Stills

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• The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

  Lester Bangs

  Shining, Culture, Pieces

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.460, Anchor

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• 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

  Romantic, Angel, Giving

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• For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game. You have to be luxurious nude.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Real, Games, Luxury

  Interview with Rebecca Voight, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2008.

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