#polish

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ↗

#diamonds #pebbles #places #polished #where

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way. ↗

I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to nail his 95 theses to the church door, and the Poles didn’t know how to operate a hammer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#church #germany #hammer #lutheran #martin-luther

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#black #character #goth #ipod #just

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#characters #check #down #draft #drafts

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#music #polish #sin #song #sweet

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#area #came #children #parents #polish

The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#compared #ensemble #make #polished #savages

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. ↗