Quotes About Polish

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

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

Coming in as an undrafted rookie, I wanted to make sure I competed every day against those talented receivers. Brandon Lloyd, he was a great guy to go against because I did a lot of scout team. Going against him every day along with all those other receivers really helped me polish my game.

With all the conveniences and clean simplicity we lived in, people had lost a lot of polish.

My sweet Harriet," he murmured. "I am delighted to see that you are still unpolished." She scowled up at him. "I assure you I am working very hard on that project, too, sir.

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.

A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty That polishes the dart.

A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty That polishes the dart.

That was the thing about polish. It might be pretty, but it was fundamentally obstructive, deflecting scrutiny, masking honest emotion. If she

When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

Andrew Szerba, whose Polish name was my name, Andrzej, also had bags under his eyes. Andrzej means man in Polish boy names.

You can edit crap, but you can't edit nothing.

On the wall between the flags was a clock. It was a big old round thing framed in mahogany. Looked like it had decades of polish on it. I figured it must be the clock from whatever old station house they bulldozed to build this new place. I figured the architect had used it to give a sense of history to the new building.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

The indigo tint of her nail polish, eye shadow, and lip gloss looked like something from the "undead' cosmetic line.

there seemingly is not race distinction between them." But African Americans weren't the only disenfranchised people these men noticed. Vollmer recalled "a preponderance of Jews and the Latin Nationalities" among the revelers, adding, "Many of the men are of Polish blood." With more than a tinge of disdain, he concluded from his observation that "homosexuality is no respecter of races.

Today, Polish-Ukrainian relations are rather muted – surprisingly so given their long and scratchy common history.

The Most Serene Commonwealth of the Two Nations'. From the late fourteenth century until Russia took its first big bite out of the Commonwealth in the mid seventeenth, therefore, nearly the whole territory of present-day Ukraine, including Kiev, was ruled from the Polish royal capital of Cracow.

A joke of the period has a Polish socialist being stopped by a policeman as he crosses the Galician frontier. Asked what he means by socialism, he says it is 'the struggle of the Workers against Capital'. 'In that case,' replies the policeman, 'you may enter Galicia, for here we have neither the one nor the other.

The weirdest manifestation of the new exclusivity was the cult of 'Sarmatism', based on the lunatic notion that the Polish nobility were descended from a mythic eastern warrior-tribe called the Sarmatians, justifying an imaginary racial divide with the rest of the population. In line with their newly-invented Sarmatian credentials, the szlachta developed a bizarre taste for the bejewelled and exotic.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.