Diamond Quotations

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.

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.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

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.

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.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.

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

Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

My mum's amazing - every time I achieve something in my career, she buys me a diamond earring.

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

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

You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing 'Batman' was like holding a Ming vase or something. And I said, 'No, it's like holding a big-ass diamond that you can't break. You can throw him against the ceiling, against the floor, anywhere, and you just can't break Batman.'

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

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

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

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.

I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date.

I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff - in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

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Neil Diamond impersonators will be much in demand at bar mitzvahs.

I don't even want to beat that drum anymore. We all know how I feel about that. I'm pretty sure the coaching staff feels the same way. I feel like a diamond in the rough, and hopefully they'll polish me up this year.

If we can show success at Diamond Lake, we'll have a success story we can point to in discussing future projects.

Since we start in the afternoon, we will go into the evening. And this is the first time that the public has had an opportunity even to be in Diamond Head at night.

Signing Neil Diamond was a watershed moment for us, ... We invested to make this happen. And it's been a strategy that's worked for us.

Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever

Guys usually have a very difficult time crossing the diamond in the infield. But he's extremely quick, as quick as anybody I've ever seen at turning a double play. That's unusual for a guy to have such a strong arm, who can throw the ball across the diamond and then move to second and immediately be able to change his arm angle.

He is one of those players who can do a lot of things on the pitch. For Real (Madrid) last season he played there almost all the time, this season he is playing in a diamond formation, so of course he can do it.

I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.

I had worn five carat diamond earrings at Wimbledon. But the earrings I had today were $40,000 earrings on loan and one fell out during the first set. New York and the U.S. Open are the biggest stages and I wanted to do something special. I love everything about the U.S. Open except the line calls.

Businessmen lay off human beings from work, businessmen decide to make shirts in Indonesia and use 8-year-old children to do it in order to turn a profit, businessmen make really cold decisions every day. Businessmen run diamond mines. They walk around in the legitimate world. I try to play it more like that.

What I kept pressing upon them is one of the greatest gems there is a diamond. A diamond, whether it's man-made or comes from coal, is a result of pressure. I wanted them to understand the more pressure is put on you, the more of a diamond you can become.

He's a diamond in the rough. A lot of colleges missed the boat on this one. I definitely believe he'll emerge at a 4-year institution a couple years from now.

He was coaching us through it, ... It's pretty simple. You've got a diamond that represents your line of site. That's the perfect track you want to be on. There's a box, and you want to put your box over the diamond and keep it there. As you're maneuvering the space shuttle you want to stay on that diamond.

The Pac-10 is very pleased to reach an agreement to send a conference team to the Diamond Walnut San Francisco Bowl. The game has come a long way in a short period of time and garnered a tremendous amount of community support.

Hopefully, this one will be a little different. St. E's is up 2-1 on us, but we've got the hardware from the Diamond State Classic and hopefully we'll get the hardware from here.

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Lincoln Trail is pretty good. They worked hard to get the field ready and I went down early with them. They really wanted to get the games in. They worked hard to get the diamond ready. They played two games without making an error, five less than we made. On the positive side, we are finding a way to win.

Marvin is Chad's watchdog. He's got his own leash, his own dog food. He's got a diamond collar. He's got a doghouse to put him in.

That arc of conflict has created a sort of regional super failed-state that terrorists and criminals have used to base their operations and to exploit the very precious diamond resources there.

Steve Diamond and his coaching staff have done a tremendous job down at Saracens and they are looking in good shape for the season,

Orb is the best place-shifting product for use with any mobile device, including cell phones, especially since there is no additional software to load. I've been watching a lot of basketball this past month and this is perfect for the Diamond user who expects the best in their products, and is looking for an easy way to watch their favorite sports and TV shows, regardless of where they are.

I think South Carolina has done a more than adequate job of addressing this. Diamond also has been very good. They have offered to reimburse distributors.

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.

I think some basic lessons are just the perfect way to start. The advantage of having lessons at Diamond Lake is that it's very gentle terrain.

Right now the amount of archeology that has been done out there is about the size of a house. Historically speaking, it is a diamond in the rough because you don't know what is there.

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I was never really liked in that city. I mean, I don't think I was liked as a person. I was kind of seen as a black kid, young African-American, cornrows, drives fancy cars, wears diamond earrings, things like that. They just kind of based their perception off of what I drove and what I did and things like that. All those things were never a part of any other player on that team but me.

The putts break toward the diamond lane on the freeway here. I had a putt break toward a call box, so I know it depends on what lane. I missed a two-footer because a guy was changing his tire in my line.

You can be distracted by all the facts and figure on a lab report. But you always should look at the diamond. The lab report doesn't necessarily say that the diamond is pretty, it only gives the physical characteristics of the stone.

We needed to get back on the diamond before we head to Dakota State.

When it's lit up, the edge of the lake looks like a diamond bracelet.

Whites are pretty much out, because it takes the color out of everyone's skin. Ninety percent (of our customers) choose ivory or diamond white.

We wanted to make the shot and go into diamond press. It was a good shot. We still needed the timeout.

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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no diamonds. He gave them style.

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.

A real diamond is never perfect.

We knew we had something special. A diamond in the rough.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

We've always tried to have a good mix of stuff on our albums -- something that's fun, something that's very radio friendly, something that's going to touch someone's heart, maybe even something that's pop influenced. More than ever, on the 'Completely' album, we wanted to show more than one musical side of Diamond Rio.

We're honored to be performing with a band that received their Diamond Award (given for 10,000,000 albums sold) at the same ceremony when we received our Diamond Award. So it seems fitting that we go out together after all these years and celebrate a lot of good years of rock and roll.

Each diamond is unique, but first and foremost you want a diamond to pop and sparkle.

Believe it or not they know what they want. A guy bought a beautiful diamond cross for his wife for anniversary and Valentine's day.

Diamond Dave set the pace. I talked to Sammy (Hagar), and we're interested in doing some Sammy tunes ... but we haven't really experimented with them live.

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Diamond, Why do you seek a diamond to give you joy? Seek instead the state of DIE MIND, which will give you pure and lasting joy.

Twinkle, twinkle little star How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky

Twinkle, twinkle little starHow I wonder what you are!Up above the world so highLike a diamond in the sky

Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe not every song, but writers from Benny Goodman to Lieber & Stoller to Neil Diamond all kept offices there.

Everyone wants to come to the June diamond jubilee celebration with grace and dignity. We don't want to have protests in the streets.

I see myself stopping in 2007 or early 2008 after the Antwerp Diamond Games, ... Maybe I will still play the Diamond Games in 2008 as a goodbye tournament, but that will be it.

I see myself stopping in 2007 or early 2008 after the Antwerp Diamond Games. Maybe I will still play the Diamond Games in 2008 as a goodbye tournament, but that will be it.

The songs are classic Neil Diamond songs. Nobody else could have possibly written them. The sound of the album is very personal, intimate and honest.

You get jewelry - stuff you can wear. Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, you can't hang that around your neck. But everywhere you go, you've got your poker gold and diamond bracelet on; everyone knows you won.

You go over to our diamond case and there are hundreds of rings in there. The poor guy is absolutely at sea if he doesn't have some kind of direction from his girlfriend.

There is so much that came out of there and there is so much that is there now. It is like finding a diamond in the rough.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

We are very pleased to have Diamond Castle in place as our new owner. The stronger capitalization will support our ongoing efforts to grow Catamount's wind energy business in the U.S. and the UK.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind

The term I kept hearing was that she was absolutely a diamond in the rough, and that intrigued me. She really has a sense of passion for life and basketball and a lot of times in our business, people become very stoic because perhaps you don't want to show too much emotion.

See, the thing about this is just the setting on this. You could lose your diamond right there.

They're supposed to be independent but still swoon over a diamond engagement ring.

Our diamond racket will stay in Belgium for at least another year. Obviously we were looking forward to have Venus once again in our tournament. She has been a key player in the promotion of our event and is incredibly popular in Belgium. But as with other top players, injuries have been putting her back. Fortunately we still have an incredible field with 6 top 10 players.

A diamond in the rough is worth just as much as a diamond in the clear.

I mean, I don't think I was liked as a person. I was kind of seen as a black kid, young African-American, cornrows, drives fancy cars, wears diamond earrings, things like that. They just kind of based their perception off of what I drove and what I did and things like that. All those things were never a part of any other player on that team but me.

I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend If it makes you feel alright

I made my 3rd visit this year to Blue Diamond Aviation and all three times my experience was excellent. The new terminal building is first-class. Highly recommended stop.

If managers find a diamond in the rough, good research pays off.

I've heard that East Gainesville is a diamond in the rough, and I'd like to tell you that I am the one to put the sparkle in the diamond.