Top 45 Jewel Quotes

My favourite colour is red, but I also like jewel tones and monochrome, while my preferred shapes include A-line skirts and skinny trousers.

And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, ‘will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?’ The answer would be ‘Yes we can!’

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

Of course there is a danger of typecasting, and since ‘Jewel in the Crown’ appeared, I have had countless offers to play sadistic policemen and middle-class misfits.

I love earth tones, jewel tones and everything that is natural. I also like natural materials like cottons, silks… I don’t like synthetic. Even the wood we use has to be authentic.

I grew up in a Britain where ‘Paki-bashing’ was around in my late teens from the National Front. We also had ‘Pakis Go Home,’ and even ‘Jewel In The Crown’ attracted this sort of comment.

A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck – the first jewel.

When ‘Jewel’ was screened, old friends from school and university got back in touch. More than one of them told me that their partners hated Merrick so much they could not think of having me in the house. This kind of audience identification does not happen in any other medium.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Children’s publishing is the jewel in the crown of British publishing.

As the country’s third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as ‘the brightest jewel in the English crown’.

We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.

It is an Englishman who turns out to be the real villain of ‘The Moonstone.’ By contrast, the three Indian priests who dedicate their lives to returning the jewel to its proper home in the temple, though they have nothing personal to gain by doing so, are positively heroic.

I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents’ sacrifices were not in vain.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that’s what I told the president – this is really a jewel.

I’ve been to India a lot, ever since when my mum was in ‘Jewel In The Crown.’

What good is making a jewel if nobody see it? But cost depends on the story. To get those performances in ‘Biutiful,’ you need that time. You need 60 takes in a scene and a year to edit. It’s not realistic to do it any other way.

In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball’s gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

I was lucky enough to be launched into the marketplace with the blessing of a series like ‘Jewel.’

I love costume jewelry, because, listen, you can’t pick a real jewel every day.

I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there’s no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

When we did ‘The Jewel In The Crown,’ we filmed in India first so the actors had an idea of what the heat was like, what it did to you – it slows you down; it’s weighty: the air that you breathe is full of humidity. You are aware of the fact that you’re not in a studio in Manchester.

The opportunity to orbit the Earth, witnessing multiple sunrises and sunsets every day, looking back to our small blue life-sustaining jewel from a distance, gives me the greatest sense of anticipation.

After ‘Jewel In the Crown,’ I hardly worked at all for about six months – which came as a bit of a surprise, I have to admit.

Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

‘Jewel in the Crown’ is the biggest exposure I’ve ever had on television.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along – that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter’s resume – to actually go to jail protecting a source.

‘The Moonstone’ was all I could have hoped for. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back.

I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.

I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

I really love working with Ramona from Nite Jewel. We’ve kind of grown up together.

As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show.

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.

I love going to museums, especially the Met, because there’s always room for discovery, or the Neue Galerie. It’s a great jewel box.