Diamond Quotes - Page 24

• A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.

  Kim Smith

  Writing, Rocks, Creative

  Interview with V.R. Leavitt, www.goodreads.com. February 09, 2015.

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

  Lawrence Durrell

  Men, Clay, Made

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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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• Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Cutting, Years, Choices

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.

  Cat Power

  Entertainers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

  Oscar Pistorius

  New York, Rain, Years

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• Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Peaceful, Debt, Democratic

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• Perfect mind, the diamond mind, radiating all universes through your being, each pulse beat is the universe, each breath, eternity. Enlightenment, try it. You'll like it!

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Perfect

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• We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Writing, Tiny, Sand

  Ronald Dworkin (2011). “Justice for Hedgehogs”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy.

  Justin Bieber

  Black, Black Diamonds, Flashy

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• It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.

  Steve McFadden

  Opportunity, Rivers, Diamond Jubilee

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• In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Culinary, Truffles, Fine

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.74, Lulu.com

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• The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Psychics

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• What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?

  John Dryden

  Track, Tears, Dew

  John Dryden (1904*). “John Dryden”

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• We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.

  Joan Baez

  Memories, Expression, Rust

  "Diamonds and Rust" (song) (1975)

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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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• Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Glasses, Leaving, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2774, Manonmani Publishers

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