#polished

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#diamonds #pebbles #places #polished #where

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through. ↗

— Richard Armour

#i #i love #just #love #mean

I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#house #i #know #ladders #leave

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#civil #graceful #nobility #order #ornament

I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#angry #back #call #covered #everything

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

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. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#basis #exactly #exist #lying #only

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting. ↗

— Billy Bush

#i think #polished #reacting #slick #strength

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. ↗