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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• Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Taken, Men

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

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

  Cat Power

  Entertainers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than routine, the fruit of which is a strained and unsure execution, a false diamond which dazzles semi-connoisseurs often more impressed by the accomplishments of the horse than the merit of the horseman.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Art, Horse, Practice

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• If you take a diamond that's raw and you put one face to it, it has that one face, and then you've gotta find another face. At the end, you're going to have this diamond that's everything you've done. I feel that's the way you should look at it because that puts you in a constant state of progress.

  Suraj Sharma

  Progress, Looks, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain. I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella.

  Tom Robbins

  Distance, Moon, Hair

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• Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

  Mae West

  Toss, Choir, Lost

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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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• Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Names, Ego, Soul

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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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• Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beautiful, Expression, Genius

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• I certainly got the jokes within the joke, dressing up in a wet suit, sitting in a Twingo, scaling a rubber mountain, dressing up and stealing a diamond, of course. If not now, when?

  Pierce Brosnan

  Dressing Up, Mountain, Sitting

  Source: collider.com

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• A movie is a diamond and suddenly someone is seeing this facet or that facet. No matter how good you think you are, there's stuff you're not seeing.

  Fred Schepisi

  Thinking, Matter, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Customers, Ifs, Sells

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• What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gold, Virtue, Valuable

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.200, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I like everything with a heaping dose of feminitity, including my cell phone. I created this phone for the classic woman, who like me, loves diamonds & wants a wireless.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Phones, Cells, Want

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• I don't apologize for my diamonds, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, or anything. Look, Queen Elizabeth has more diamonds than me. Why don't people attack her for it?

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Queens, People, Looks

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