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“When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ("Trompe le pied.")”

Truth Vision Fantasy Perception Obscure Caution Grim Polished Intentions Well Meanings Generously Personae Swiftly Palm Off Shrouded Watchword Construcs Nicely Pokerface Rimpling Water

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.”

Art Wisdom Truth Poetry Quotes Literature Nature Thoughts Poetry Quotes Wilderness Dejan Stojanovic Polished Literature Quotes Euphemism Outcry Unpolished

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“Everything about Tom is polished; he has a metrosexual, masculine beauty.”

Men Perception Masculinity Presentation Polished Masculine Beauty Metrosexual Physical Descriptions

Book:The Designer Wife

Source: The Designer Wife

“Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial.”

Truth Integrity Fake True Artificial Polished Authentic Real Self

Book:From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“He visited the weavers and tailors with his brother, choosing garments with cuffs of feathers and exquisite embroidery, with collars as sharp as the points of his ears, and fabrics as soft as the tuft of his tail- a tail he tucked away, for it showed too much of what he schooled his face to hide. A poisonous flower displays its bright colours, a cobra flares its hood; predators ought not to shrink from extravagance. And that was what he was being polished and punished in to being.”

Holly Black The Folk Of The Air Cardan Greenbriar Cardan Polished Extravagance Predators Punished Groomed

Book:How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“I flow like a butter in the nailed pan I stole. I also kept the nail, to polish and use as a means of teleportation.”

Source: Nothing is here...

“Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.”

Next Five Goes On Hundred Aim Chapters Polished Next Chapter

Author:Elinor Lipman

“A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws.”

Writing Heart Christian Law Natural Pure Simplicity Extremes Orthodox Orthodox Christian Polished Tablets Pure Heart Propulsion

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Building Materials Capable Edges Surface Convinced Human Life Dull Scratches Richness Polished Absorbing

Book:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“What did not demolish me simply polished me.”

Polish Polished Demolish

Author:India.Arie

“A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.”

Pay Fine Mouths Tradition Mark Collections Polished Homage Sinister Blazing Debut Stylish

Author:Laird Barron

“People would say I'm more polished as a passer than Tebow and Cam, but I'm not as physical a runner. But I am 6'2, 223, and I can throw with the best of them.”

People I Can Runners Polished Tebow

Author:Robert Griffin III

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

Knows Stones Prison Isolated Polished

Author:Jayson Williams

“The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.”

Objects Color Mirrors Brilliant Colour Surroundings Reflecting Polished

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.”

Writing Ends Time Perfect Results Hell Minutes Willing Polished Few Words Dead Ends Scribbles

Book:The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

“Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.”

Flow Rivers Ashes Cleanliness Polished Brass Copper

Author:Chanakya

“A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.”

Persons Wise Rocks Take Time Polished It Takes Time Wise Person

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.”

Way Looks Kind Has Beens Whole Bigs Light Black Cities Streets Rain Window Shining Apples Sugar Candy Polished Syrup

Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.”

Men Should Loses Effort Skills Every Man Authenticity Originality Niche Polished

Book:Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

Source: Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

“Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!”

Source: Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform

“For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.”

Long Stills Feet Horse Luck Bones Pockets Long Ago Worn Rabbits Fur Polished Claws Chestnuts

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.”

World Want Character Passion Wise Honor Command Chains Rely Appetite Resisting Fear Not Polished

Author:Horace

“It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.”

May Language Superiors Polished Clearness

Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.”

Stills Originals Defined Copies Polished Antiques Linux

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.”

Sometimes Court Camps Polished Rust

Book:Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard

Source: Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard

“Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?”

Ifs Matter Joy Hell Paris What Matters Polished Skates Festive Gilded

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.”

Littles Seems Loses Half Rich Cutting Dust Diamond Verses Crude Polished

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should wear.”

Men Should Wells Language Grace Flower Hair Rings Chains Perfume Jewels Polished Bracelet

Author:Bhartrhari

“The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.”

“But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.”

Perfect Owners Polished Gems Vases

Author:Mary Renault

“The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.”

World Two Found Perfect Half Moon Towns Fundamentals Hills Candle Burned Transparent Luminous Polished Unleashed A Perfect World Two Of Us Uncovering Unbound

Book:Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing

“To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.”

House Sides Fire Sight Flying Telling The Truth Sunlight Steel Astonishing Polished Dazzling Carried Away Chariots Chariots Of Fire

Author:Cyrano de Bergerac

“To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good ol' boys" as they referred to themselves. That's exactly how they would be described in the press that slowly became enamored with their raucous life style. That has all changed, with the drivers of today polished and clean-cut athletes who are expected to behave like commercial puppets in public.”

Would Be Today Stars Boys Cutting Talent Style Changed Presses Clean Athlete Expected Hills Behave Drivers Pool Exes Puppets Carolina Polished Enamored Life Style Nascar

Author:Brock Yates

“Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.”

Source: The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know

“Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.”

Long Beautiful Endure Jewels Polished Long Friendship

Author:Celia Brayfield

“One of the things I wanted to do after three, prolonged movies is to do something that was really, kind-of knee-jerk decisions, and artistic instincts and strip down the process to more of a guttural level, and make something that wasn't so manicured and polished; wasn't quite so developed and supported, and just run wild with it and see what happens with it.”

Kind Happens Running Wanted Three Process Decision Levels Instinct Artistic Knees Jerk Polished

Author:David Gordon Green

“Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices.”

Body Faces Choices Paint Accurate Canvas Sculpture Polished Food Choices

Book:Eating for Beauty

Source: Eating for Beauty

“I love to talk to children about making mistakes. Its important that I tell them about how I dont get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.”

Firsts Children Important Mistake Products First Time Performances Finished Making Mistakes Perfectionist Polished

Author:Patricia MacLachlan

“A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]”

Men Home Ads Nails Polished

Author:Horace

“In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.”

Men Book Country Might Certain Sides Race Folks Hills Wheels Toys Far Away Thread Spinning Bosoms Lanes Oaks Silk Polished Lace Remnants

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.”

Natural Gay Conversation Brilliant Tone Tedious Polished Frivolous Gallant Pedantry Good Conversation

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]”

People Mean Made Hard Built Court Royalty Palaces Marble Polished Edifice Forts Polis

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.”

World Art Study Poet Taste Labour Intercourse Polished Refinement Art And Science Negligence

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

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

People Has Beens Seems Air Sky Polished

Book:Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

“When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.”

Choices Crushed Polished

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.”

Mind May Planes Purity Receiving Foul Polished Chaste

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance

“Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.”

Book Reader Insult Polished Sapphires

Author:Margaret Deland

“Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]”

Poetry Powerful Common Numbers Crime Sweet Lows Flow Unions Errors Ease Subtle Cheeks Rhyme Soar Confined Polished Poignant Crimson Common Life Sportive

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!”

Source: Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures

“The cutting edge of service is always being honed and polished.”

Culture Cutting Edges Polished Service Culture Cutting Edge

Author:Ron Kaufman