Polish Quotes - Page 9

• What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?

  Paul O'Grady

  Drinking, Night, Lasts

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• I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

  Konstantin Rokossovsky

  Surveillance, Steps, Affair

  "Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, 2007.

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• I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called Fridays Fingertip Fetish. It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Friday, Nails, Would Be

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• My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.

  Harry Lloyd

  Italian, Parent, Knows

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• Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Criticism, Fine

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• So please get your rags
  And your polishing jars,
  Somebody has to go polish the stars.

  Shel Silverstein

  Stars, Rags, Gulls

  Shel Silverstein, “Somebody Has To”

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• At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

  Walt Whitman

  Poetry, Likes, Odd

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• Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.

  Jonathan Weeks

  Writing, Joy, Rejection

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• The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.

  William O. Douglas

  Black, Firsts, Purpose

  "DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 23, 1974.

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• 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

  Artist, Oscars, Lost

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• We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.

  Paul Arden

  Smell, People, Car

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• A Polish terrorist was sent to blow up a car. He burned his mouth on the exhaust pipe!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Blow

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• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  Ian MacKaye

  Moving, Rivers, People

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

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• A Polish man bought a zebra for a pet. What does he call the zebra? Spot!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Zebras, Humor

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• How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, People

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• A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned off the fan!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Beauty, Class, People

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.43, Northwestern University Press

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• I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond.

  Mark Munoz

  Adversity, Thinking, Dust

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• I see these conferences as a good way to have a break from the day-to-day, learn about some new tech, polish up on some old skills and hopefully have some fun also. They're also good as they show my company is prepared to invest in my skillset.

  Rob Mills

  Fun, Skills, Way

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• I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.

  G. Hannelius

  Toxins, Nails, Vegan

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination... Government should not break up a neighborhood on a numerical basis. As soon as the Government does, the white folks flee.

  Jimmy Carter

  Government, White, People

  "THE CAMPAIGN: Candidate Carter: 1 Apologize'", content.time.com. April 19, 1976.

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• As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.

  Elliot Perlman

  Talking, Names, Australia

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• Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.

  Frank Herbert

  Cities, Desert

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.269, Macmillan

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• In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow.

  James A. Michener

  Fall, Community, Events

  James A. Michener (2014). “Poland: A Novel”, p.26, Dial Press

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• On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.

  Tobias Smollett

  Rocks, White, Bed

  Tobias Smollett (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Tobias Smollett (Illustrated)”, p.2159, Delphi Classics

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