Polish Quotes - Page 7

• Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Courage, Cutting, Fire

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.356

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• Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Art, Winning, Hands

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them head-on and establish a solid self that nothing can sway. Hardships forge and polish our lives, so that eventually they shine with brilliant fortune and benefit. If left in its raw, unpolished form, even the most magnificent gem will not sparkle. The same applies to our lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Running, Self, Shining

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• Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.

  Jonathan Weeks

  Writing, Joy, Rejection

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• A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman who sits at home and polishes her nails. It's the one who works, who is a doer, who does things by dressing. She's very strongly projecting an image of herself as an individual.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Home, Play

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• I like the thought of playing for money instead of silverware. I never did like to polish.

  Patty Sheehan

  Golf

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• I was talking to my friend from New York yesterday, and I used the expression, 'You can't polish a turd'. He looked at me, disgusted, and said, 'No, you can't, but you can roll it in glitter'. He's a lovely guy but I wouldn't want to go to a craft fair with him

  Steve Williams

  New York, Expression, Talking

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• Have you seen the new Polish jigsaw puzzle? One piece.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Jigsaw Puzzles

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• I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Men, Hands, Feet

  "Oscars 2015: Read Stephen Hawking's Touching Words for Winner Eddie Redmayne" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2015.

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• You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.

  Denis Waitley

  Cutting, Skills, Demand

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• We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.

  Richard Bach

  Block, Past, Years

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• Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.

  Sharon Creech

  Reading, Writing, Listening

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• You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.

  Haruki Murakami

  Philosophy, Thinking, Chocolate

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.331, Random House

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• Most of my friends wonder why I get these roles that are so masculine and tough. I think it's my Polish temperament that comes up.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Thinking, Roles, Tough

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• But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).

  Thomas Pynchon

  Exotic, Affliction, Shapes

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• Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word

  Rooney Mara

  Character, Ipods, Black

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• You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Heart, Brain

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• Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

  Anais Nin

  Illumination, Space, Tree

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• How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!

  Hannah More

  Teaching, Might, Able

  'Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies' (1777)

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• It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like cosmetics, food coloring, and floor polishes. Should thousands of animals suffer so that a new kind of lipstick or floor wax can be put on the market? Don't we already have an excess of most of these products? Who benefits from their introduction, except the companies that hope to profit from them?

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Drug, Suffering

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• Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes.

  Kelly Cates

  Football, Brain, Nails

  Kelly Cates @KellyCates, twitter.com. January 23, 2011.

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• Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. They are our mirror; our memory; we ask nothing of them but that they polish the mirror from time to time so we can look at ourselves in it.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Flower, Past

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• Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Order, Track, Challenges

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Morning, Guy

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• I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself.

  Judy Tenuta

  Italian, Half

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