Polished Quotes

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

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

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

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

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

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.

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

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

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

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

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.

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.