Polished Quotes - Page 8

• 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

  People, Political, Steel

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• Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

  Elinor Lipman

  Goes On, Next, Hundred

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• A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Heart, Writing

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• What did not demolish me simply polished me.

  India.Arie

  Demolish

  Song: Soulbird Rise, 2013

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• A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.

  Laird Barron

  Mouths, Pay, Tradition

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• People would say I'm more polished as a passer than Tebow and Cam, but I'm not as physical a runner. But I am 6'2, 223, and I can throw with the best of them.

  Robert Griffin III

  People, Tebow, Runners

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• That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

  Jayson Williams

  Stones, Prison, Isolated

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• 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

  Mirrors, Color, Brilliant

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• We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.

  Julia Cameron

  Time, Writing, Perfect

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.23, Penguin

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• Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

  Chanakya

  Rivers, Ashes, Flow

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• I thank the Lord that I may have passed some of the tests, but maybe there will have to be more before I shall have been polished to do all that the Lord would have me do. Sometimes when the veil has been very thin, I have thought that if the struggle had been still greater that maybe then there would have been no veil.

  Harold B. Lee

  Struggle, Veils, May

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• I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Rain, Light, Cities

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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• Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Skills, Effort

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.133, Criss Jami

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• A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Tree, Shade

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• When I was younger I was attracted to people who had that kind of artifice - people who were incredibly polished and had a complex persona that always seemed to be turned on. I was really interested in these kinds of people because I felt so unformed.

  Dan Chaon

  People, Kind, Persona

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.

  Hal Duncan

  Editing, Stories, Done

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• I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.

  Dan Chaon

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• 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

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Christopher Morley (2007). “Chimneysmoke”, p.58, Wildside Press LLC

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• You never know what's going to happen, so I get up at 6 a.m. every morning. It's a new wakeup call for me, for sure. But you just want to be polished. That way, if anything happens, I'm ready to go. I'm not going to sit in a makeup chair for an hour and be like, "Then I'll go get the story."

  Abby Huntsman

  Morning, Makeup, Stories

  Source: www.elle.com

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• New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished.

  Kurt Braunohler

  New York, Down And, Grind

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• I like making sure that I've got a decent haircut, my beard's a decent length. I trim it once a week and that's all I need to do. Also, shoes polished. Just put yourself together properly. It's about self-respect, but it's also about having a bit of respect for the people you're interacting with on a daily basis.

  Patrick Grant

  Shoes, Self, People

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint those out, we decided we wanted to keep the presence of the animation and the type of animation that it was rather than make it look polished. It created a kind of vulnerability, I think.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Thinking, Looks, Use

  "Immersed in Movies: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson Talk ‘Anomalisa’ and Adult Stop-Motion". Interview with Bill Desowitz, blogs.indiewire.com. November 16, 2015.

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• I think Jared [Kushner] is an unusually polished person.

  Jared Kushner

  Thinking, Persons

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• Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which make the face of the world what it is, and as we see it, is interesting and instructive. Until we get hold of a group of physical facts, we do not know what practical bearings they may have, though right-minded men know that they contain many precious jewels, which science, or the expert hand of philosophy will not fail top bring out, polished, and bright, and beautifully adapted to man's purposes.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Nature, Philosophy, Hard Work

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• When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

  Chris Colfer

  Inspirational, Bullying, Hurt

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