#polish

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#always #been #cast #deposit #ear

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#believe #chicago #conditions #could #europe

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ↗

— James Joyce

#her #mind #polished #quagmire #sinking

I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breaker for him. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#cares #deal #god #him #i

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work. ↗

— George Kennedy

#full #get #hour #hundreds #imagine

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#i #instead #page #polishing #quick

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#polish #purpose #slack #spirit #tighten

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#filmmaking #however #mode #old #polish

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#belong #brutal #centuries #crossed #experienced

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English. ↗

— Paul Walker

#background #bit #blue #blue collar #collar