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Quotes About Polish

Perhaps the vetting committee was swayed by one of Ró?ycki père's good points. He was exceptionally lucky, which led his Polish friends to say of him, 'Bebenek could jump into the water stark naked, and still come up wearing a tuxedo.
~ Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.
~ Joseph Abboud
Christmases with Polish and Romanian troops, including religious ceremonies in crude bunkers and huts, were deeply spiritual experiences.
~ Stanley A. McChrystal
My task is to simplify and then go deeper, making a commitment to what remains. That's what I've been after. To care and polish what remains till it glows and comes alive from loving care.
~ Sue Bender
You can polish and iterate and double down on what the magic was. You can make a much better thing. A much cleaner thing, a much more solid thing. And that's what 'Borderlands 2' is to 'Borderlands.'
~ Randy Pitchford
I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
~ Lech Walesa
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
~ Jean Paul
In this city he kept house with his German mistress and maintained a long affair with his Polish secretary.
~ Thomas Keneally
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term 'imaginary' shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).
~ Thomas Pynchon
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
~ George Edmund Street
Barabas always managed to project an air of urbane, civilized polish that came with a sharp edge. Tall, lean, and pale, he had fire-bright red hair that stuck out from his head like a forest of aggressive spikes. If he ever frosted his hair blue, he'd look like a gas burner.
~ Ilona Andrews
If I would be born in New Zealand, maybe, I would never write the Polish Requiem or pieces which were connected with the history of war. But this was my childhood. War was the main subject, and also in our family.
~ Krzysztof Penderecki
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
~ Anne Bradstreet
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.
~ Andrzej Wajda
What a contrast with the other traders who lacked polish!
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.
~ Neal Shusterman
Chaucer, I confess, is a rough diamond; and must be polished e'er he shines.
~ John Dryden
I am often asked the question: 'What is your favorite type of food?' Although I always answer Japanese, the real response should be and is pierogi, the delectable Polish dumplings that my mother, Big Martha, made so well in many incarnations: potato, sweet cabbage, blueberry, peach, plum, and apricot.
~ Martha Stewart
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
~ Andrzej Wajda
A Polish man had his vasectomy done at Sears. Now when he makes love, the garage door goes up.
~ Henny Youngman
A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned off the fan!"
~ Henny Youngman
A Polish man had a bandage on each ear. What happened? "I was ironing, and the phone rang!" "What about the other ear?" "Had to call the doctor!"
~ Henny Youngman
Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
~ Usher