Buffing Quotes & Sayings

Allyson meanwhile is remembering. Why this person? All the things she has told herself, or other people have told her - infatuation or Paris or good acting or lust - no longer hold water, because she remembers so viscerally and feels it anew. It's not any of that. It's not even him. Or all him. It's her. The way she can be with him. — Gayle Forman

For Harley, reading was the equivalent of chocolate, sleep, and morphine all rolled into one. Like all cats, she was quite the hedonist. — Suzanne Wright

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats. — Harry Browne

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. — Dave Mustaine

Hopefully I've given something back to darts, which has been brilliant to me. Hopefully I made it a bit popular when I first started; I was part of the breakaway, and I also created a monster, so I think I've done a little bit. — Eric Bristow

We had started the tour hoping to make about 200 pounds each as the All Blacks (All Golds) had done the previous year. We got nothing and were lucky to get home! — Dally Messenger

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out. — Vincent Schiavelli

The other side of mental blanketing - the buffing and puffing up of marriage to keep it seeming shiny and magical - is up against a formidable fact. Statistically speaking, the act of marrying is banal. Even though many Americans wait longer than ever to marry, and often do not stay long in the marriages they do enter, most Americans - close to 90 percent - still do marry at some point in their lives. Some try it over and over again. Marrying, then, does not make people special; it makes them conventional. — Bella DePaulo

There was something in him, lighter than ego but darker than insecurity, that needed constant buffing, polishing, waxing. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power. — Jonathan Turley

Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far. — Walter Kirn

Step into the resonance of the immense possibilities of this moment. — Robin Carroll

WWCD. What would George Clooney do? — Lauren Beukes

The only option for a creative person was constant motion - a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn't do it any longer. — Meg Wolitzer

Alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear. — Henry David Thoreau

How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways. — Cyprian Ekwensi

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball. — Bill James

Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something? — Seth Shostak

You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing - grinding, buffing, and polishing - not writing. — Guy Kawasaki