Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.
Tina Fey, in Lia Haberman, Q&A with Tina Fey, E! Online.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin, in John Maxwell Failing Forward: How to Make the Most of Your Mistakes, Thomas Nelson Inc, 8 March 2000, p. 65.
A diamond is a portion of crystalized carbon. That is what we have all been for so many years admiring; that is what the Greeks call adamas (the unconquerable) that is what Mrs Jones calls “a diamont,” and to which all sorts of poets and lovers have likened the prettiest and sweetest, and brightest eyes which ever shone.
J. Hain Friswell, in “The Young Couple and Miseellanies,” p. 215.
You're a shooting star I see
A vision of ecstasy
When you hold me, I'm alive
We're like diamonds in the sky
At first sight I felt the energy of sun rays
I saw the life inside your eyes
So shine bright, tonight you and I
We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky
Eye to eye, so alive
We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky
Shine bright like a diamond
Shine bright like a diamond
Shining bright like a diamond
We're beautiful like diamonds in the skySia Furler, Benjamin Levin, Mikkel Eriksen and Tor Hermansen, Diamonds, Unapologetic (2012)
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