Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jill Scott

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.

Jill Scott

My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

Iris Apfel

Jewelry is the most transformative thing you can wear.

George Eliot

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

Galileo Galilei

The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"?

Fred Brooks

Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.

A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear.

That's my other life. If I wasn't a jewelry designer, I'd be a gardener.

The whole quilted look is very popular but in bright, vibrant jewel tones.

There's going to be interesting jewelry at everyone's seat that's going to be kind of glow-in-the-dark and kind of festive.

The trade-off of getting the Jewel stores is more than worth it for Supervalu.

It's really a jewel that should not be taken for granted.

This is a very unique market here and Lake San Marcos is a jewel tucked into North County. We are also going to try to provide more local services so residents don't have to go out onto Rancho Santa Fe Road ---- because it's a different world out there.

Janelle Monae

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

Janet Fitch

Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.

Cassandra Clare

Did you like it?" he said. "I could have given you...jewelry, but I wanted it to be something that was wholly yours. That no one else would hear or own. And I am not good with words, so I wrote how I felt about you in music." He paused. "Did you like it?

Eva Green

All my jewelry has stories.

Jenna Fischer

I get really excited about jewelry.

Frank Zappa

Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a vocal group called the Jewels ... , or Webern, or Varèse, or Stravinsky. To me it was all good music.

Fred Rogers

Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.

Jean de la Bruyere

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]

J. K. Rowling

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

Honore de Balzac

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Evan Esar

Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.

Isaac Watts

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

Isaac Newton

A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.

Gwendolyn Brooks

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

John F. Kennedy

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

Jonathan Edwards

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.

Philippa Gregory

I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.

Monica Crowley

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

Pearl S. Buck

Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.