Diamonds never leave you... men do!
It's diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.
If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story.
Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.
People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.
The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
I like pressure. Diamonds are made under pressure, and I definitely enjoy it.
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
The quality and sparkle of Hearts On Fire diamonds is truly unmatched, and I am really excited to represent the brand.
Wear your diamonds on the inside.
As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.
My father use to say if coal died, the country died. He was right. Our economy rests on the back of the coal miner. If we did not have the black diamonds of the mountains to burn, we would lose more than half of the nation's energy reserves.
When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to keep "blood diamonds" out of international trade.
We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.
I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.
On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!
Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.
Burlesque girls were alchemists. They were steel-tough performers who were willing to use kitchens as dressing rooms, haul their costume bags through the snow, and go into debt over fake diamonds, all for the five minutes onstage when they were goddesses.
The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.
I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.
The sneaker comes from sports, but it's couture now. It's not made in Asia: it's made in my little village in Italy. I can customize everything. I use silk and diamonds and crystals. I think my sneakers have a lot of good vibrations.
I don't feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.
My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.
Diamonds may be forever, but emeralds are for 2013.