Jewels Quotations

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.

But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

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

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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

If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.

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

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.

I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.

With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

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

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

I'll go to an event wearing some designer gown and tens of thousands of dollars in jewels that were lent to me for the night, and I'll walk around and meet people who I always thought were such a big deal.

A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.

One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.

There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.

Movie people think things are movies, and authors think things should be movies because, up until recently, movies have been the jewel in the crown. But, that seems to be changing.

There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light.

I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.

O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the first place who does not see what dignity they confer on style by their antiquity alone?... And so to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour.

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.

There's a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say - 'Let's lobotomize and censor parts of it because we need to control it' - and those like us who see the Internet as a method of growing the economy and innovating in front of the world. And we have to actually reconcile those two positions. And we believe that it is much better to protect this crown jewel of civilization, which is the ability for us to communicate and express our ideas freely, than to try to lobotomize it.

Modesty and devotion to God are real jewels for woman kind. The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.

I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.

Jewels five-words long/ That on the stretched forefinger of all Time/ Sparkle for ever.

Playboy After Dark' is one of the jewels in Playboy's crown and was considered an important cornerstone in Hugh Hefner's legacy. It was groundbreaking, in terms of being interracial, intergenerational and in terms of its format.

Looking at the restructuring, it will make the bond holders more comfortable at the expense of the minority shareholders, ... If they get TIM out from under TI, bond holders will have better access to one of the crown jewels in the TI portfolio.

Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat.

Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .

Member states are sometimes tempted to seek to protect their industrial or financial crown jewels from takeovers by companies from other countries, ... We have seen such signals from France just recently.

Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

I have seven different jewels for my piercing. Every day I wear a different one, according to the clothes I am wearing.

Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.

I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a movie star would be a very dangerous place.

Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so they could steal his jewel-filled station wagon, which they abandoned 2 blocks later because none of them could drive a stick shift. Where would I be without such people?

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.

He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

Lots of TV is kind of becoming almost the new form for adult storytelling and cinema, but still with some independent films you still have those kind of jewels that people are able to make and it takes a lot of effort.

These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?

We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.

Health and an able body are two jewels.

It will be full of precious stones and jewels, and best of all, full of precious souls!-Immortal souls, saved souls that love Jesus and that you won to the Lord.

A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

We consider Palm Meadows to be one of the jewels of west Boynton. Our high school is one. Palm Meadows is the other. They really have been a super neighbor.

Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper -the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

There is nothing higher than Brahman. Everything in the universe is strung on Brahman like jewels on the thread of a necklace.

Both word of mouth and accolades such as our recognition as one of Consulting Magazine's seven Small Jewels have made us more visible in our markets. Despite tough competition for talent, we have done an exceptional job building a highly qualified team to meet our continued growth in client opportunities.

Cricket highlights are one of the jewels in our crown and will play a big part in our continued development as a broadcaster. We are planning to invest significantly behind them, while the cross-media promotional benefits of our deal with the Telegraph offer a unique opportunity to deliver something innovative and heavyweight.

The Stanford Mansion is certainly the jewel of Sacramento, ... and we're adding it to the crown jewels of the state's parks system, along with Hearst Castle, Big Basin, the Humboldt redwoods and Point Lobo.

I've always found it strange that a director can hire any designer he wants from any country. But if he hires a foreign actor, it's like he's stolen the crown jewels and run across the river with them.

They are buying our jewels and we are buying their underwear,

Absolutely it had a lot to do with my decision. I am Canadian and I love racing in Canada and racing in the 24 for a team with a Canadian sponsor was really appealing to me. This event is one of the crown jewels of racing, and I really want to add a win here it to my resume.

The New York routes out of LaGuardia are part of the crown jewels of the Delta system.

Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.

The benefit of the split is you clearly have some jewels in that financial empire. Wireless and broadband are doing very well,

They are not selling the crown jewels of WorldCom, just some cubic zirconium from MCI.