Diamond Quotes - Page 16

• People say I'm a gold digger, but do you see me wearing gold? No. I'm wearing diamonds.

  Anna Benson

  People, Gold, Gold Digger

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• The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

  Sara Sheridan

  Sky, Black, Crystals

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• I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

  Jules Verne

  Spring, Glasses, Water

  Jules Verne (2013). “Jules Verne Selected Works: 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Mysterious Island”, p.509, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron -- and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring -- embody the American dream of Eden.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Dream, Blessed, Eden

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

  Mae West

  Men, Jewels, Immortality

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• They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

  Eric Clapton

  Hero, Gun, Rejection

  Song: Watch Out For Lucy, Album: Backless, 1978

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• The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

  Theodore Parker

  Shining, Soul, Crowns

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• Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Thinking, Poetry, Dumb

  Natalie Goldberg (1990). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life”, Bantam

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• It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

  William Shenstone

  Mean, Men, Odds

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.98

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• I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Criticism, Nuggets, Pearls

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1991). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.

  Joseph Conrad

  Book, Believe, People

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Victory”, Joseph Conrad

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• No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Real, Perfect, Crucible

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• Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Flower, Book, Government

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

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• When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

  Russell Baker

  Confused, Parent, Peas

  Russell Baker, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven brothers--they were all princes--used to go to school with stars on their breasts and swords at their sides. They wrote upon golden slates with diamond pencils, and could read just as well without a book as with one, so there was no mistake about their being princes. Their sister Elise sat upon a little footstool of looking-glass, and she has a picture-book which had cost the half of a kingdom. Oh, these children were very happy; but it was not to last thus forever.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Daughter, Brother, Stars

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

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• Platinum is a lot of things: it's hair, it's diamonds and platinum

  Miranda Lambert

  Hair, Platinum

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• It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mean, Risk, Pearls

  1888 From a letter to his brother Theo, early Oct.

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• People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.

  Michael Caine

  Swimming, Order, People

  Interview with Barry Norman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 1998.

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• As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.

  Chris Alexander

  Dark, Shining, Black

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• I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.

  Lana Del Rey

  Song, Trust No One, Littles

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• Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Basketball, Jobs

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• I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community.

  Mr. T

  Couple, Winning, Car

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• True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Running, Science, Men

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

  Anne Sexton

  Dark, Golf, Sea

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

  Rick Warren

  I Hate You, Butterfly, Anxiety

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