Diamond Quotes - page 2

Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest what mischief thou hast done! (Isaac Newton)
The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are. View quote
Mark Nepo
Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond. View quote
Mark Nepo
Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond. View quote
Nicky Gumbel
‘Blade Runner' is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don't think you should ever touch it again. View quote
Rutger Hauer
A real diamond is never perfect. View quote
Anthony Doerr
To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself. View quote
Dennis Merzel
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger. View quote
Chuck Tanner
That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great. View quote
Bruce Oldfield
My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all. (Claudia Black)
I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa. View quote
Djimon Hounsou
Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic. View quote
French Montana
I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up. View quote
Olivia Colman
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song. View quote
Robert Wyatt
Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities. View quote
Sheherazade Goldsmith
It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special. View quote
Steve McFadden
Some people want it all But I don't want nothing at all If it ain't you baby If I ain't got you baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain't got you, Yeah. View quote
Alicia Keys
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I wanted that diamond because it is incomparably lovely. And it should be on the loveliest woman [Elizabeth Taylor] in the world. View quote
Richard Burton
And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings. (Kanye West)
It seems, we living the American dream But people highest up got the lowest self esteem. The prettiest people do the ugliest things For the road to riches and diamond rings. View quote
Kanye West
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. View quote
William R. Alger
I don't crop. Photography is like diamond cutting. If you miss you miss. There is no difference with painting. If you don't cut you have to accept the whole image. You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
It is true – is it not – that even Ingres [French classical painter, famous for his line] had to revise – yes, the surface of the painting is smooth, finished and incorruptible as a diamond, but under the accomplished surface are pentimenti – see there at the shoulder, how the line of the black dress was lowered qua fraction and the hand was extended to give greater elegance... Are these not signs of the patient revision that even a genius has to make. View quote
Arshile Gorky