Diamond Quotes - page 6

We have to get the Diamond. And Cesare's head.” They looked at me. "Why the head?” Doolittle asked. "Because it's easy to carry and I can torture it for a long time.” And I didn't just say it out loud, did I? I checked their faces. Yep, I did. (Ilona Andrews)
I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that. View quote
Jill Scott
I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second. View quote
Julian Lennon
Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands. View quote
Lionel Hampton
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. View quote
Andreas Capellanus
For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring. View quote
Crystal Bowersox
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. View quote
Mary McLeod Bethune
Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy. View quote
Michael Buble
When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then. View quote
Oscar Pistorius
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere. View quote
Queen Elizabeth II
I've never had a diamond before, and now I've got a diamond surrounded by other diamonds and diamonds in places where, frankly, you don't need diamonds at all, and I would have been happy with a piece of twine. (Summer Phoenix)
Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw. View quote
William J. H. Boetcker
We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine. View quote
Jimmy Stewart
I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The heart can put on charms which no beauty of known things, nor imagination of the unknown, can aspire to emulate. Virtue shines in native colors, purer and brighter than pearl, or diamond, or prism, can reflect. View quote
Horace Mann
The greatest of all the reformers of the depraved religion of his own country, was Jesus of Nazareth. Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers, and as separable from that as the diamond from the dunghill. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond. View quote
Umberto Eco
I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets. View quote
ASAP Rocky
Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things. View quote
Mark Helprin
Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in. View quote
Tina Fey
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. (Teresa of Ávila)
Pure as the snow the summer sun Never at noon hath look'd upon, - Deep, as is the diamond wave, Hidden in the desart cave, - Changeless, as the greenest leaves Of the wreath the cypress weaves, - Hopeless, often, when most fond, Without hope or fear beyond Its own pale fidelity, - And this woman's love can be! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed. View quote
Fergie
Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond. View quote
Jim Jarmusch