#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. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#good #hope #hyped #i #i hope that

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. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#i #i think #lifted #me #might

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

— Vera Nazarian

#polished #rock #smooth #wisdom #wise

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

— Daniel Defoe

#body #diamond #like #luster #must

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

— Pauline Hanson

#fair #fair share #had #her #here

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

— James Joyce

#her #mind #polished #quagmire #sinking

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#defends #innocence #like #polished

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. ↗

— Kim Weston

#certain level #comes #down #first #gets

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#diamonds #pebbles #places #polished #where

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