Polished Quotes

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase? - Logan Pearsall Smith

What people want from Mr Blair is not more polished rhetoric about the future but practical solutions to the problems of the present. - Francis Maude

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What belts do is finish a look. Whether you're wearing pants, jeans, a dress or skirt, a belt gives the outfit a finishing touch. It's polished. - Julie Helman

We've still got a lot of worked to do. We don't want to be a polished football team in week one, we want to be there at week 10. - Jeff Whittaker

We weren't surprised by what we got when he was a ninth-grader. We knew he was a talented young man. We just focused on getting him polished, getting him stronger. - George Dyche

We played a pretty polished game. Our power play got us a lead and helped us beat a very talented team. - Mike Turner

We have everybody from polished, professional actors to people who are totally green. You can tell right away if somebody's light is on or off. And we cast the first set of the next show from these performances. - Robert Galinsky

We didn't feel like ourselves in the first half. We realized at halftime that we had to hold onto the ball, work harder and we did that in the second half. But it certainly wasn't polished. - Richie McCaw