Zitat des Tages über Poliert / Polished:
Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.
I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
You get into your wellie boots and your Range Rover and, walking around with six inches of mud on your shoes, you get to forget about that more polished lifestyle.
I worked from 8 A.M. to 12 A.M., and sometimes until 2 A.M. There were no shifts, just a few dozen people, and we all polished glass. I didn't enjoy it.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
In the '50s, women aspired to dress like their mothers - this polished, controlled, formal way of dressing. Then all of a sudden in the '60s, going into the '70s, they stopped dressing like their mothers.
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
As a serial investor who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, I know that the business plans coming out of incubators tend to be vetted and more thoroughly validated. The incubator's input into your business plan will make you look far more polished and experienced - even if you have never run a business before.
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
I've polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one.
I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back.
New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished.
That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.
It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.
You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.
Super polished signage is not always a good sign. I'm always looking for places that you have to know about to find. Also, just food-wise, if I'm eating ethnic cuisine - I hate that phrase, but still - If I'm eating Mexican food, I'm looking to see that there are Mexicans in the restaurant. They know if the food is being made right.
I used to like cufflinks, but I got too lazy for them. I realized I don't need them for a polished tailoring look, so more times than not, I skip them.
The main thing with my shows is that I'm professional but not highly polished. I don't like people to think they're just seeing an album in person.
