Gems Quotes

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

Walter Anderson
- Good
- Like
- Gems
The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.

Steve Stoute
- Business
- Artists
- Gems

One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Mark Twain
There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.

Rudyard Kipling
- Pass
- Jewel
- Treading
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

William R. Alger
- Mind
- Diamond
- Proverbs
In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers.

Emily Rodda
- Earth
- Special
- Ancient
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

Freya Stark
- Life
- Good
- Art
Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.

Adrian Anthony Gill
- Mean
- Film
- Memories