Burnishings Quotes & Sayings

The real treasure of life, the one difficult to find and hard to attain, is never far from us. That's an unwritten rule on this earth. What we desperately desire and need most is buried in the recesses of our innermost being all along. This is the open secret found in many traditions and told in many ways. Yet it remains a secret
because trusting in oneself remains one of the hardest things to do in life. — Michael Meade

If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet. — Cameron Russell

Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with — Francesca Lia Block

He embraced me, and said into my ear, 'I'm going to fuck the shit out of you.'
I lost my breath.
It was crude, it was unexpected, and it set me on fucking fire. — Leah Raeder

We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt. — Carine Roitfeld

Sometimes the beauty of something is created by time and experiences, and those things are often more precious to those who look hard enough, and value the burnishings. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice. — Voltaire

[She] looked as if her nerves were quivering with the expectation that something would be thrown at her. But she never had anything worse than words to dread. — George Eliot

Little girls aren't all born with glitter shooting out of their assholes. Some us have personality, thank you very much. — C.M. Stunich

Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man. — Waller R Newell

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue. — Patrick Lencioni

I've made a lot of friends over the years through racing, but we weren't necessarily teammates. — Juan Pablo Montoya

You learn to get by from day to day," Sam Regan said sympathetically to him. "You never think in longer terms. Just until dinner or until time for bed; very finite intervals and tasks and pleasures. Escapes. — Philip K. Dick

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them. — Larry King