Quotes of: Polishing Keyword

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

Chinese

In a house where there are many beautiful daughters the soup kettle will never get polished.

Manchuria

Children love to polish brass and silver, then move on to polishing their own shoes.

How To Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way

I definitely feel I'm outside of the polished pop girl group, which feels right. I don't think I could keep up that polished surface on purpose.

Tove Lo

The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.

Andie MacDowell

For a longer nail look, I get a gel manicure. They grow with the gel polish, and then I keep going until I want my natural, short nails back with the regular polish.

Edy Ganem

I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.

Idina Menzel

The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which suggests that women were still wearing painted nails within the safety of their homes.

Virginia Postrel

I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a...

Gunter Grass

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a so...

Andrzej Wajda

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.

Mike Krzyzewski

I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on o...

Marc Jacobs

Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held her close by the light of an oil lamp, and he shone as though he had been polished with a high-wax body polish.

The God of Small Things

On the third, directly before me, were embedded more polished letters: PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM. For ever and ever. In the red light, the brushed steel glowed softly, like embers. The polish letters blazed. Without a hiss, For ever and ever slid ...

Brother Odd

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

Zebulon Pike

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

Regina Brett

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

John Dingell

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

Wislawa Szymborska

They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...

The Distant Hours

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

Kim Novak

Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.

Rosamund Pike