Top 101 Diamond Quotes

One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.

I had just been to the David Bowie Diamond Dogs concert, and I kid you not: When I watched him onstage, a lightning bolt came out of the sky and zapped me. I knew at that moment, that’s what I wanted to do with my life. It was my calling.

‘Black Diamond’ blew my mind. Ace Frehley came onstage and did it with us at Madison Square Garden a few years ago, which was a total high watermark in my life. When I was 13, I never thought in a million years that I would even talk to him; I’d probably pass out. And here I am playing with him!

I don’t really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.

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.

There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s blaring out the songs of Neil Diamond, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

Boron is carbon’s neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can’t quite form the same four perfect bonds.

My mother was the influence on me – my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.

My father was like an unpolished diamond – tough outside but warm inside.

If you ask ten different people in the diamond industry about the diamond industry, they’ll give you ten completely different answers that are opposing, contradicting each other. And maybe that’s the thing about the diamond business.

I am honoured to be taking part in the Diamond Jubilee flotilla along the Thames in my 20-foot rowing boat. The energy levels will be high, partly because I’m planning to ply the crew with thermos flasks filled with Typhoo!

Growing up, I didn’t come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, sang out loud, or listened to the radio with frequency. The record collection in the living room was only about 2 feet long – and that included 4 solid inches of Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert.

I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.

I’ve always wanted to be a PC Music girl, like Hannah Diamond or SOPHIE.

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.

The original ‘Dynasty’ was fantastic, and no matter what you do, some of that diamond is going to sparkle through. We’re just trying to re-shine it, I guess.

I’ve been enjoying playing with fashion – gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that.

You never really own a diamond. You just get to keep it for a while before it begins a new journey with someone else.

By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It’s just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond.

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

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

On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you’d see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.

My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

I cut ‘Diamond in My Crown’ in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of.

I’d like to be a scout, go watch the games, and try and find a diamond in the rough.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

After I started singing, I’d go to my dad’s records I grew up with in his house listening to: Gordon Lightfoot, John Denver, the Carpenters, Bob Seger, Neil Diamond, voices that resonate with you, that you know who they are right away.

I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn’t see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, ‘I’m telling you, I’m going to make you shine, girl.’

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.

To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this ‘Diamond Eyes’ record. I was spending years making records.

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

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.

This diamond has so many carats it’s almost a turnip.

It’s really hard to find a lot of things that rhyme with Michael Diamond.

To me, all business is the same it’s just the product that’s different and you can have a diamond in your hand, but if you don’t market it correctly, it just becomes another piece of coal.

For some reason or another, ‘Richard Diamond, Private Eye,’ still sticks out in my mind. I don’t think I particularly liked that show, but for some reason, he sticks in my mind.

I’m not a professional entertainer. I’m not Neil Diamond.

I love diamond facials – they leave me glowing and refreshed.

But while Taya is so good, she is still no diamond. She is still no Tessa Blanchard. I am one of the best in the world!

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.

I used to do commercial acting. I’ve been in Lunchables commercials, Honda commercials, Blue Diamond Almonds commercials.

Diamond Dallas Page is one of my best friends.

The best luxury in the world isn’t a diamond ring or a nice house – well, it could be – but it’s privacy.

My ‘something borrowed’ was a stunning pair of vintage diamond drop earrings from my friend Afshin at Estate Diamond Jewelry in N.Y.C. My ‘something blue’ was my tanzanite right hand ring that I bought for myself in Tanzania after climbing Mt Kilimanjaro.

I used to say Page Joseph Falkinburg – which is my given name – when Page Joseph Falkinburg stopped trying to be this over-the-top professional wrestler, Diamond Dallas Page, and Diamond Dallas Page became Page Joseph Falkinburg, that’s when my career took off.

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.

To me, all business is the same it’s just the product that’s different and you can have a diamond in your hand, but if you don’t market it correctly, it just becomes another piece of coal.

Diamond Dallas Page didn’t have that larger-than-life persona, but he had a different connection with the audience.

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.

I’m like coal under pressure. I turn into a diamond.

Winning the Diamond League with a personal record, it’s like icing on the cake.

I sort of found King Diamond in second grade, but I didn’t become a devoted Satanist until a few years later, but that was very much part of my adolescence as well.

Pressure can make a diamond. Pressure makes me play better because I don’t want to let my teammates or my fans down, and that makes me play extra hard.

I would have always liked to have worked with Randy Orton because of the Diamond Cutter and the RKO.

I did not have a dog with a diamond collar. I was never flashy.

Wasn’t nobody wearing diamond necklaces until Jay-Z jumped out there with them.