Polishing Quotes

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

  

  Confucius
  • Removed
  • Polishing
  • Effaced

• People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani girls and boys like me. All those gems need, is a little bit of polishing. And I will do it. That's my aim.

  

  Arfa Karim
  • Genius
  • Aim
  • Polishing

• Stories and objects share something, a patina...Perhaps patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed...But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Stories
  • Gains
  • Polishing