Top 60 Polished Quotes

Our Windows 10 experience is super polished, and it integrates all the community features seamlessly with the game experience.

I think anytime you have an event for the first time ever, like a Super Bowl or WrestleMania or UFC, as the years go by, everything becomes more polished with promotion and bigger stars.

I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching – great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.

I don’t feel I ask anything of anybody else that I wouldn’t give up myself. I don’t think the things I ask are particularly shocking, and I don’t think I approach celebrities from the point of view of being a polished journalist.

Claude Rains is my favorite actor. He’s so utterly polished and competent, no matter what he does.

Being a pageant girl taught me to be polished, poised and slap on a smile.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Even at our height, we were never very polished.

When I travel, it makes me wish I looked completely polished all the time. I don’t. I live in sweats.

If you think about it – if you watch a gymnast compete, you don’t see their training behind the scenes. You just see the competition. You see the final result when it’s polished. And that is very much what people experience with concerts. They go to the concert. And they see the final version.

I used to like cufflinks, but I got too lazy for them. I realized I don’t need them for a polished tailoring look, so more times than not, I skip them.

Gold, we think, is something polished and perfect, sophisticated, a luxury. But in its natural state, it’s a raw element.

Throughout my football career, I’ve always been somebody who’s been very aware, and I know when the camera is on me, and I know how to be polished. I can see how that might come off as disingenuous.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don’t mean one who’s polished, I just mean one who’s through.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

People would say I’m more polished as a passer than Tebow and Cam, but I’m not as physical a runner. But I am 6’2′, 223, and I can throw with the best of them.

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that’s when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn’t sound insincere.

Half the issues they – are so polished they’re talking about – are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they’re really productive.

I’m a wrestler, a very polished wrestler and some of my best attributes in wrestling are my scrambling ability and my clinch.

For me, it was important Wonder Woman wouldn’t be a Goody Two-Shoes. She has a little bit of attitude, and when she fights, she has a smirk on her face. I didn’t want her to be polished. I want people to relate to her.

I don’t know why people think I’m polished – I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.

I’m glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.

I love polished pop music, but stuff like Neil Young’s Crazy Horse vibe or Waylon Jennings, that stuff is raw and real.

The House of Andrews really invented what we know as polished, glamour drag.

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

I don’t like to hold too much formality in concerts. It’s not that I don’t like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I’m more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you’re watching them.

I was living in a four-story Manhattan townhouse with three full-time servants and silver to be polished, and I was doing too much. My kids were growing up without me, and suddenly I thought, ‘I want some other stuff.’ So I stopped working instead of cutting back, and went to Australia instead of Vermont.

Randy Orton is one of the people in the industry I respect the most. Not many people can be as smooth and polished in the ring as Randy is, and still be over with the fans, and he is one of the very best in the industry.

The court is like a palace of marble; it’s composed of people very hard and very polished.

I think I proved that I was a polished receiver.

The Web is the new way to figure out who’s hot and what’s not. You can’t let TV dictate because it’s so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there’s the side of me that’s more polished.

Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished – if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.

I really don’t like when things are all polished and perfect – the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I’m never going to be this polished politician. Nor am I going to be perfect.

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

Asking myself, ‘Is this any good?’ is pointless. It just slows down my writing, and I can’t tell anyway. It’s always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

I’m not slick. I’m not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.

I adore clothes – they’re my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.

I was temping at Harrods. I’d wake from the double bed I shared with my best friend, leave the house in a slick-looking trench coat and polished brogues without a hair out of place. I was complimented for looking so presentable.

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness… I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don’t go on to the next chapter until I’ve polished and polished and polished the one I’m working on.

The key to my accuracy is making sure my feet are set right and trying to have a more polished throwing motion, a more polished stroke, you can say. When my feet are right, my hips are allowed to open a little better, which is kind of where your accuracy comes from.

The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.

Theatre polished me as an artist.

Imagine if the dinosaurs had tried picturing the rulers of their planet 100 million years hence. They’d undoubtedly envision these creatures as… dinosaurs! Conceiving of aliens as polished versions of ourselves is appealing, but unconvincing.

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness – even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent – will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.

Every Motown act dressed classy, and we were clean-cut. Whenever you saw a Motown act, they were polished, and they knew how to treat people.

If I get too glam and polished and pretty, people are like, ‘Hari, why aren’t you speaking up about issues?’ And if I start speaking up about issues, people are like, ‘Why can’t you just be an actress?’

My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn’t take long for the very thin layer of gold to disappear and the base metal underneath to show through.