Gems Quotations

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

I try to push and find something awkward. The gems to me are truly awkward situations, and you have to have somebody who's willing to fail because those can't be conceived. They never play if they're thought about and discussed too much. You have to create them right at the moment and look for something honest.

I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.

Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear.

I have that love for music, when you are finding either old gems that you never heard or newer stuff that perks your ear. It keeps you trying to look for new stuff to write about it. You don't spin your wheels. I take that same approach to music and books.

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.

The problem with items is that someone has to pick through them to find the gems and discard the trash, and believe me there's a lot of trash, ... And no one has time in the Gulf states right now to perform that task.

Luckily for me, my father had impeccable taste. No contemporary collector was he. His treasure trove of comics included gems such as 'Little Lulu,' 'Frontline Combat' and 'Classics Illustrated.' But the works that stood head and shoulders above the rest were Carl Barks's 'Donald Duck' and 'Uncle Scrooge' comics from the 1940s through the 1960s.

Now you can make (films) and not have to worry about cost. You find some real gems by individuals you know you wouldn't have done it otherwise.

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, / And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

Only those people, who have wealth can dream of acquiring gems and precious stones.

What I kept pressing upon them is one of the greatest gems there is a diamond. A diamond, whether it's man-made or comes from coal, is a result of pressure. I wanted them to understand the more pressure is put on you, the more of a diamond you can become.

It is a little harder now, because every coach knows about players, and there aren't many gems who get overlooked. But this game was a perfect opportunity to see what other players could do. It is nice to see these guys get rewarded with playing time.

Local restaurants have always had their regulars, but there are new people coming to town who may not have found those local gems yet.

That was the year every show on the air went to color, except for one, and I found out that Screen Gems wasn't willing to pay for color because it was an extra $300 a show,

We really are looking for undiscovered gems that are out there. We are committed to bringing high-quality films our customers will enjoy in the future.

We're really overjoyed that the trust is coming to Cincinnati because it gives us a chance to showcase our architectural gems that we in the community have worked so hard to preserve.

We view the NFL Scouting Combine as one of the hidden gems still left in the NFL. This is an event NFL Network believes in and will look to grow to NFL Draft-like status.

We said, 'Let's do something really playful,' but it also pulls out some real gems or things that haven't been seen for a few years.

This will be one of the large, large gems in the emerald necklace that we hope to create along the Los Angeles River.

I spent months digging through our archives looking for unique photos of Glacier National Park. With the help of former editor Brian Kennedy and Patsi Morton (Ruder's daughter) I was able to come up with a truly unique book. Some of these gems haven't seen print in 60 years. Some were never published at all. This book was a lot of fun to put together. About half of the photos in the book are from the Ruder era, which only makes sense, since Ruder, the founder of the Hungry Horse News owned the newspaper for more than half of its 60 years.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind

People don't realize the richness of the gems and minerals out of Canada. The Baffin Island sapphires are very unusual for their size and clarity.

The music that's out today, the songs these kids are writing -- it's a new golden age of songwriting, ... Wonderful lyrics, soaring melodies -- these are beautiful songs. ... They are gems waiting to be mined.

Audience-pleasing gems can get discovered in Toronto rather then lost in the shuffle because you have a great cross section of audiences that attend these screenings,

There were some real gems out there this year. We couldn't be prouder of all our students.

If we turn our spiritual eyes towards the Son, meaning the Son of God, we will see the sparkle of the gems of life.

Gems being precious just cannot be possessed by all and sundry.

How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

These are gems from a world that no longer exists -- except in our imaginations.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.

There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.

Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.

Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.

Sweet the coming on / Of grateful evening mild; then silent night / With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, / And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.

Some gems for the greatest of them all

And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.