Polished Quotes

Everybody agrees that there is no people on earth in whom generosity is as universally well developed as the Zanj. These people have a natural talent for dancing to the rhythm of the tambourine, without needing to learn it. There are no better singers anywhere in the world, no people more polished and eloquent, and no people less given to insulting language. No other nation can surpass them in bodily strength and physical toughness. One of them will lift huge blocks and carry heavy loads that would be beyond the strength of most Bedouins or members of other races. They are courageous, energetic, and generous, which are the virtues of nobility, and also good-tempered and with little propensity to evil. They are always cheerful, smiling, and devoid of malice, which is a sign of noble character.

I'm really a clean-cut kid.

I clean up really well. I can get dolled up.

If you think about it - if you watch a gymnast compete, you don't see their training behind the scenes. You just see the competition. You see the final result when it's polished. And that is very much what people experience with concerts. They go to the concert. And they see the final version.

I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

I'm not chic, I could never be chic.

The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.

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

You never know what's going to happen, so I get up at 6 a.m. every morning. It's a new wakeup call for me, for sure. But you just want to be polished. That way, if anything happens, I'm ready to go. I'm not going to sit in a makeup chair for an hour and be like, "Then I'll go get the story."

When I was younger I was attracted to people who had that kind of artifice - people who were incredibly polished and had a complex persona that always seemed to be turned on. I was really interested in these kinds of people because I felt so unformed.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

Defined brows instantly make you look more polished.

What did not demolish me simply polished me.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

I'm actually a pretty clean-cut person.

I admire American women because they are really good at putting a look together that is sophisticated. As British girls, we lean toward being a bit more messy, a bit more undone, and maybe a little more eccentric.

Not everything I say is elegant.

Pop country is about being so clean and perfect and not having any rough edges or imperfections. It's all manufactured.

My style is edgy but really put together. I'm not the kind of girl to walk out of the house in booty shorts and a crop top and Converse. I don't like that look.

The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.

I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.

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

On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.