Black Diamonds Quotes:

I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy.

- Justin Bieber

topic: Black, Diamond, Black Diamonds, Flashy

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

- Confucius

topic: Life, Success, Mistake, Diamond Rings, Caregiving

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Cutting, Black, Diamond, Black Diamonds

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

- Sara Sheridan

topic: Sky, Black, Velvet, Blackouts, Black Diamonds

Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.362

topic: Power, Civilization, Black, Ledges, Black Diamonds

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all

- Claudia Black

topic: Running, Ideas, My Boyfriend, Escorting, Black Diamonds

There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad (2016). “Victory”, Joseph Conrad

topic: Book, Believe, People, Black Diamonds