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Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
Some things are more important than polished stone.
I can't get clean." "That's because you're polishing a diamond. How much more brilliant do you want it to shine, my lovely?
Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from within.
Day after day it was as if someone had taken my life apart and polished every bit of it really carefully before putting it all back together.
I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.
Still as I've said all along, you can't polish a turd.
If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.
Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.
It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.
Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget,
Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.
Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.
Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.
I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.
The rough must be taken with the smooth.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Children love to polish brass and silver, then move on to polishing their own shoes.
Washed clean like a porcelain, with housewifely care ...
Right now I am working to polish the shards of my dreams.
Switching off perfection switched on the human quality
I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.
A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.
The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.
The dull, hazy light played along the polished blade like water.
Too much shine, can dull the soul
Apparently, it was possible to polish a turd.
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight. When
I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint ...
The workmanship was better than the subject matter.
Don't polish it forever, put it out there. At some point the changes aren't improvements, they're just changes.
Shine bright like a diamond.
I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.
If it's not working you can't polish a turd.
dripping-wet Gloss
Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.
Here's my lesson to you: Don't wish for a knight in shining armor. You'll just end up spending most of your time doing lots of polishing. And that armor tarnishes faster than any other substance on earth; instead, spend that time on yourself.
Caress the detail, the divine detail.
We are refined like gold, with every adversity endured.
My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before?
Sharpness is overrated.
I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.
way it sounded, scraping and scuffling
I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided a pulse, gave order to vast incomprehension. Later he found other ways.
brushed with the first crimson of sunrise. On the oval track the comb marks of the rakes in the dirt showed no footsteps; Saul always ran better on fresh earth. He stripped and tossed
Yeah, exactly. But, actually, boards prefer iron. All that glitters is not hovery.
There was something in him, lighter than ego but darker than insecurity, that needed constant buffing, polishing, waxing.
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when than when too highly finished
One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it is a situation of steel sharpening steel.
Some one has defined a work of art as a "thing beautifully done." I like it better if we cut away the adverb and preserve the word "done," and let it stand alone in its fullest meaning. Things are not done beautifully. The beauty is an integral part of their being done.
Perfecting a craft or skill, takes a great deal of hard work; the end result will be amazing!
screwed blued and tattooed
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose ...
Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!
There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.
skidded the elegant white speedboat skilfully through the
There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
furnished, but by no means decorated,
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.
HOW TO BE A GENTLEMAN HOW TO SHINE A PAIR OF SHOES 1. Sprinkle a few drops of warm water over the polish. Spit works just fine.
It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.
The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.
Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
Like pebbles in a bag, the monks polish each other.
A fine but tarnished diamond is always preferable to a piece of glass, no
matter how polished.
Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
Some people's elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood - common
You do have an eye for the tarnished lining.
Shattered edges of the diamonds rough sets to cut the unsuspecting.
Yet truth is a diamond; even mishandles, smeared with grease, or buried in mud, it cannot be marred and waits for one with a cloth to polish it clean.
I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.
Perfect refining is for another world,
the good finish best
It must sound stupid, but it was I realized that for rest of my life, till death do us part, it was on me to maintain this veneer's sparkly free, streak-free shine.
Varnish and gilding hide many stains.
inferred by the pattern to either side, the small pyramidal bumps rising from the flat steel with their crisp edges and flecks of paint. Holston lifted an old boot to an old step, pressed down,
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Gold wrapped old crap.
The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.
But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished ... and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Ha! I wouldn't have him now, were he gilded!" Mariah looked shocked. "Isn't emasculation a bit harsh?" "Not gelded, dearest. Gilded, as in covered in gold, although gelding might well be what he really deserves!
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
Both black and gleaming, ostentatiously so. I was acutely aware of our luggage piling up on the platform, matching and initialed and gleaming with comfortable wealth. I couldn't help but
For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.
Seek the tarnish and you shall find
Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.
A thousand days of training to develop, ten thousand days of training to polish. You must examine all this well.
Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.
Here in the city she had gilded her nails. They shone. And she had put on a velvet dress, this soft red one, which was heavy. The buttons were in the form of seashells.