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People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta
Perfection is a polished collection of errors.
— Mario Benedetti
Our hearts are like polished mirrors. We need to wipe it clean regularly of the dust that gathers on it.
— Norhafsah Hamid
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
— Liane Moriarty
If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.
— Jane Espenson
The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.
— Laurence Sterne
Her wavy, shoulder-length hair was the colour of polished mahogany.
— William Hjortsberg
My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.
— Evangeline Lilly
It seemed longer and redder than any car could be. It had a long gleaming bonnet of polished metal.
— Agatha Christie
He's soft and strong at the same time; beautiful and cold like a polished japanese katana.
— Kazuma Kodaka
Only one small, pale spot on her cheek was visible where her skin, free of blood, gleamed, as polished as bone.
— Sanjida Kay
The polished oak floors reflected the light of the overhead crystal chandelier and gleaned under the plush deep red Persian rug.
— Robin R. Murphy
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.
— Gay Talese
Curled in the cavernous leather chair and faced Doctor Gordon across an acre of highly polished desk. Doctor
— Sylvia Plath
The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.
— Eugene Delacroix
Day after day it was as if someone had taken my life apart and polished every bit of it really carefully before putting it all back together.
— Jenny Downham
A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.
— Jim Broadbent
I washed walls, polished door knobs and the tiny window. The scales and stench of defeat floated into the pail's dirty water. The
— Maya Angelou
The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King. — Idries Shah
I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Defined brows instantly make you look more polished.
— Bobbi Brown
The Hitmen who came to assassinate him end up being polished for the better by their target
— Yusei Matsui
Jim Rohn is outstanding! He is among the most polished, professional speakers in America, with a message everyone should hear.
— Brian Tracy
I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.
— Anne Robinson
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
— Robert South
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[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.
— Horace Walpole
What did not demolish me simply polished me.
— India.Arie
I can't find a goddamn fucking job and I'm too fat to be a stripper, I said as I polished off a stale croissant.
— Lena Dunham
A fine but tarnished diamond is always preferable to a piece of glass, nomatter how polished. — Said Nursi
Clarity Cliche--polished packagethat wraps the unwrappable
Here it is, your day
from "Nightly News" in The News: Poems — Jeffrey Brown
The more polished a diamond the more valuable it is;the more tested a man the more refined he is. — Matshona Dhliwayo
And that sometimes, just sometimes, it is the light reflected off of polished steel that can keep the shadows at bay.
— Jason L. McWhirter
When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
— James Mackintosh
I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.
— Carrie Underwood
The youthful sparkle in Ronald Reagan's eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished.
— Sheilah Graham Westbrook
The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Our encounter with cancer has rounded us off; it has smoothed and polished us like river rocks.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
— Billy Joel
Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
— Terry Pratchett
Be a lady? Forget it. Ladies don't last a day in the real word. No one's a lady anymore. Why do you think we get our claws polished?
— Crystal Woods
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
— Antoine Rivarol
O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.
— William Shakespeare
The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.
— Christopher Morley
Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.
— Celia Brayfield
My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.
— Edmond Rostand
When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.
— Maria Sharapova
His domed head was perfectly buffed and polished, cleanly reflecting the halogen lighting above.
— J.R. Rain
Polished air-tight stove (new and deadly invention),
— Mark Twain
Though it seems to be a running theme that all well-polished men with model faces and insanely hot bodies are assholes.
— Michelle A. Valentine
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
Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
— Jaron Lanier
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
— Jean De La Bruyere
all the sacristies in town: they trimmed all the cloister hedges; they polished every possible crucifix; they
— Thornton Wilder
The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.
— Marlene Dietrich
That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.
— Jayson Williams
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
— Jasper Johns
The floors were polished mahogany, clear as glass,
— C.M. Hayden
I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.
— Ryan Reynolds
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
— Pauline Hanson
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.
— Letitia Baldrige
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
— Zebulon Pike
I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
— Marisa Tomei
