Highly Polished

Famous quotes containing the words highly and/or polished:

“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“I could see that none were clumsy.
I could see that each was tight and firm.
Not one of them had trickled blood
waiting as polished as gull beaks,
as closed as all that.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)