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Quotes About Diamonds

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
~ Mae West
I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat a guitar like a best friend or a little brother or a lover you have a tempestuous relationship with.
~ Jamie Cullum
You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.
~ Nicky Oppenheimer
He noticed Miss Bettie was wearing a watch, a steel Rolex with diamond chips. "What time is it?" he asked. Miss Bettie glanced at him and laughed. "You do seem to have difficulty remembering, don't you? Well, then, I shall tell you. It's now , Joshua Cane. Always and only now.
~ Sean Stewart
The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows
~ Barbara Kingsolver
when I looked at Anatole's wrinkled brown knuckles and pinkish palms, I pictured hands like those digging diamonds out of the Congo dirt and got to thinking, Gee, does Marilyn Monroe even know where they come from?
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
~ Fergie
Duty! Duty, judgement! I have heard enough of duty. And of judgement. You cloak your lust for vengeance and for gold and diamonds in the noble words of duty and judgement and protection and sacrifice. But it is the weakest and the poorest and the most innocent who suffer, who sacrifice, whose every minute of every day is obedience to duty.
~ Bharati Mukherjee
I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
~ Joan Rivers
As the first hard drops of rain fell, the Witch caught sight, not of the girl's face, but of the shoes. Her sister's shoes. They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood, and thorny stars.
~ Gregory Maguire
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
~ Gustave Flaubert
I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
~ Guy Kawasaki
And graven with diamonds in letters plainThere is written her fair neck round about:Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.
~ Sir Thomas Wyatt
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
~ Maya Angelou
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
~ Maya Angelou
Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!
~ Ron White
No need to worry. Diamonds are made under pressure, and you're our brilliant Claire.
~ Susan Vreeland
Im Kopfe trage ich Bijouterien, Der Zukunft Krondiamanten, Die Tempelkleinodien des neuen Gotts, Des grossen Unbekannten.
~ Heinrich Heine
There aren't words to tell you what you mean to me. But I hope that when you see this ring on your hand, you'll remember that you shine as brightly as diamonds in my life and you're infinitely more precious
~ Sylvia Day
The jawbone-I have a topaz pin for that. The wrist and skin-sapphire. I keep the diamonds for your eyes, my beautiful. But blindness is not yet. Nor death. This shall be a long game. Revel in it, my dear.
~ Tanith Lee
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
~ Juvenal
I carry a little collection of jewelry I love with me, in case I need diamonds.
~ Liv Tyler
I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
~ Kate Spade
I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, "Ah me! I wish I were a widow!" Mrs. Keith was precisely the widow that young unmarried ladies wish to be. With her diamonds in her dressing-case and her carriage in her stable, and without a feather's weight of encumbrance, she offered a finished example of satisfied ambition.
~ Henry James