Diamond Quotes

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

Business money reattaches worldwide Deep inside stops the diamond rocks In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world Rap moves on to the year three thousand

Some artists want your money so they can buy Range Rovers and diamond bracelets, but I don't care about that kind of stuff. I want your soul.

I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.

To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.

My hatred is diamond-hard.

Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary behond comprehension. But it also made him free.

For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty.

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.

A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.

It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee.

It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.

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.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.

Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.

The lion-as proud as the diamond bright, Though the spell may be clouding that radiant light-in the death of the sun what's amiss will then mend, while the raven is dying discloses the end.

Diamonds are a girls bestfriend

In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.

Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.

Madonna, eat your heart out. Britney Spears, eat your heart out. I would say we have diamond records coming - they're gonna sell 10 million-plus.

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date.

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws.

The world is a diamond cut from our surprise.