Polished Quotes - Page 5

• I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

  Charles M. Blow

  Country, Boys, Trying

  "Charles Blow on Masculinity, Trayvon Martin, and Reliving Childhood Trauma". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2014.

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• If I was with some other rappers who aren't as polished, or I was the only rapper, I don't think I would be where I'm, nor would I be rapping. They pushed me, we pushed each other on every record.

  Schoolboy Q

  Rap, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

  Jeff Mangum

  Creativity, Thinking, People

  "Neutral Milk Hotel". Interview with Mike McGonigal, pitchfork.com. February 11, 2008.

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• It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.

  Kimbra

  Home, America, Australia

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• I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can't tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Opportunity, Blue, Stories

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• Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Selfish, Passion, Pride

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• The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.

  Gerald Early

  Ambition, Class, America

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• I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.

  Maya Lin

  Cutting, Men, Land

  Quoted in Smithsonian Magazine, Aug. 1996

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• It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

  Edmund Burke

  May, Language, Clearness

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.187

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• Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

  Jaron Lanier

  Antiques, Linux, Copies

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.126, Vintage

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• In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

  Hans Arp

  Spiritual, Struggle, Air

  "Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs". Book by Hans Arp, p. 307, 1966.

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• Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

  Margaret Deland

  Book, Sapphires, Insult

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• Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Men, Childhood

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.653

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• For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Glasses, Unyielding

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key”, p.10, H. P. Lovecraft

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• I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.

  Maira Kalman

  Cute, Mistake, Glasses

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• The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them---or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, Legs, Example

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• If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.

  Dean Koontz

  Beach, Memories, Broken

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

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• Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Gold, Appearance

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.150

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• Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.

  John Muir

  Sympathy, People, Touching

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• She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Girl, Heart

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• Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self.

  John Banville

  New Experiences, Self, Childhood

  FaceBook post by John Banville from Oct 15, 2016

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• There I go being critical again. Does a man have to stand on one foot and juggle for me to consider him entertaining? What am I looking for? A knight?...No, knights are all polished and shiny. I think my taste runs to something with a bit of tarnish and maybe a few scratches. Someone who can make me laugh and cry and make me angry and make my knees tremble when he touches me.

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Nora Roberts (2013). “The Heart's Victory”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

  Jane Austen

  People, Dancing, Savages

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• Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

  Terry Pratchett

  Smart, Dumb, Trying

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.159, Random House

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• Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

  Homer

  Dream, Two, Ivory

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