Highly Polished

Famous quotes containing the words highly and/or polished:

    The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
    Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)

    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)