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I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore. -- Davy Jones
During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it. -- Davy Jones
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses. -- Gene Tierney
Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured. -- Walter Anderson
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed. -- Terri Windling
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems. -- Marc Cherry
Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends. -- Amber Valletta
I think Tahoe is one of the hidden gems in the country, and I've played a lot of golf around the country. You can't beat the smells and the clean air and just the way it makes you feel. -- Trent Dilfer
It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball. -- Jack Buck
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. -- Confucius
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. -- William R. Alger
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. -- William Rounseville Alger
There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration. -- Richelle Mead
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of. -- George Eliot
Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. -- William Hamilton Gibson
Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. -- Thomas Gray
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. -- Leonard Cohen
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. -- Walter Pater
Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear. -- Bradley Chicho
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems. -- Steve Stoute
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems. -- Samuel Lover
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. -- Steven Wright
I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been able to be a songwriter first. -- Sevyn Streeter
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. -- George MacDonald
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision. -- Alison Sweeney
We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin... -- Aimee Semple McPherson
People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani girls and boys like me. All those gems need, is a little bit of polishing. And I will do it. That's my aim -- Arfa Karim
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. -- Corey Taylor
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. -- J. K. Rowling
One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates. -- Rob Lowe
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. -- Gore Verbinski
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. -- Jeff Kinney
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. -- Sam Harris
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language. -- Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Independent record stores are like a casino where you put down your money and you always win. How amazing to discover gems you didn't know about, to meet someone more passionate than you are, and to feel at home in a place you may never have been to before. I'm convinced they will never lose their place - Long may they rule. -- KT Tunstall
Some gems for the greatest of them all -- Muhammad Ali
And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train. -- John Milton
Polish those gems within brightly, so you may shine... -- Gino Norris
There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep. -- John Milton
The humanitarian is a treasure hunter seeking gems of remedy and appreciation. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. -- Grace Kelly
The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood. -- Giordano Bruno
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves. -- Etheridge Knight
Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light. -- Barbara Marciniak
Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light. -- Barbara Marciniak
One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it. -- Mark Twain
Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love. -- Rumi
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. -- Alexander Pope
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore. -- Thomas Moore
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor. -- Anandamayi Ma
He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines. -- Neal Shusterman
i realize you cant just throw real gems at ppl...because they think cubic zirconia is the real thing lol -- Fee Scott
Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems. -- Chanakya
We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems. -- Chanakya
There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses. -- Dick Latvala
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry. -- Alexander Pope
The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold... -- Oksana Rus
How many great gems were lost to thoughtand not put down to pen.You can but think of just a fewand then they're lost again. -- L.F. Young
Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers. -- Nhat Hanh
There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source. -- Rumi
O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture Of Thee, the Living Word. -- Walsham How
Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
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December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared. -- Christopher Pearse Cranch
Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend. -- William Somervile
There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline. -- Robert Bridges
Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me. -- Anne Rice
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike. -- Alexander Pope
Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession. -- Anna Cora Mowatt
As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden. -- Josh Billings
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. -- Bob Dylan
[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds. -- Stephen Jay Gould
There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found? -- Felicia Hemans
Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems. -- Margaret Atwood

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