Twinkle Khanna

I like to see the world from different levels. Even when I'm making a candle or designing a piece, I like to sit on the floor to polish or make it from scratch. I haven't seen really tough times, but my husband has come up the hard way. He has even seen poverty.

Indian Businesswoman

Patricia MacLachlan

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

American Writer

Erin Wasson

When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

American Model

Paul Walker

I want to wake up next to what I went to bed with. I need a girl who can get dressed up to come with me to things, but also one who isn't afraid to get her fingernails dirty or chip her nail polish.

American Actor

Kayleen Schaefer

A guy in a mustache looks best dressed up in a suit. A track suit and mustache won't help your look. You need to look groomed and polished.

Author

Hansika Motwani

My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

Indian Actress

Pauline Hanson

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

Australian Politician

Rosamund Pike

Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.

British Actress

Eva Green

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

French Actress

Blanka Vlasic

Croatian Athlete

The verb 'polish' implies you actively rub something to enhance its appearance.

Action Required

Polishing usually involves time and careful effort to make something look better.

Time and Effort

Can be used metaphorically to mean improving skills or a piece of work.

Figurative Use

Expressly refers to a substance like a cream or liquid used for shining.

Product Specific

Remember, you 'use' the polish, but you 'polish' with it.

Correct Usage

When used as an adjective, it relates directly to things from Poland.

National Connection

Always capitalize 'Polish' when referring to the country or its language.

Capitalization Key

Refers to Poland's national language, distinct from English.

Language Specific

Don't confuse with 'polish' the verb; 'Polish' has a stressed first syllable.

Pronunciation Caution

 are they smelling their way back are they seeing their way back or they're hearing their way back so for some of the animals that we've captured we're going to cover the tips of their antenna formed legs with nail polish the temporary nail polish blocks the sensory abilities of the antenna form this aids in the process of elimination helping burner to gauge the extent

Night Search for Whip...

 and didn’t like being burned, scrubbed, or polished. The monk and salesman laughed, both impressed by this honourable trickster. From that day on, the tanuki became an esteemed guest of the temple. He could frequently be found telling tales and performing tricks that amused even the most serious monks.

The Japanese myth of the...

 of the ancients nail polish of today has a lot more ingredients because it has to do a lot more things first and foremost the color has to speak to some deep longing within your soul second that color can't fade third you need to be able to brush it onto your nail evenly and smoothly fourth it needs

Nail Polish PIPE...

 when you observe the way sighted people make choices. And as you just mentioned, there's lots of choices out there that are very visual these days. Yeah, I -- as you would expect -- get pretty frustrated by choices like what nail polish to put on because I have to rely on what other people suggest.

Sheena Iyengar: The art...

 glass and casting that and melting it down into one mirror to machining it away with diamond tools to grinding and polishing it to testing it with laser beams and then create this product that goes out and discovers new things about the universe the accuracy that you see in these

Go Inside a Telescope...

 should be about deep enough beautiful now I'm gonna grab some water out of my water hole here jump it around that post just freeze it into place that water's gonna freeze this polish place it'll be good and solid it won't move an inch

Rack Focus PIPE Life Below...

 eyes a coat of clear acrylic varnish is applied over the top of the eye and it gets even cured to seal it finally a buff and polish gives us a nice glossy finish and the appearance of a living eye the expected lifespan of an

Making an Artificial Eye...

 refugees and tangos and cafes and bookstores and the beautiful Mediterranean and they lived a difficult but really wonderful life at the same time in the early 30s Bronislaw Huberman who was a polish violinist realized that

In search of Toscanini’s...

 in the industrialized world. Launching the world's best companies, even as record numbers of children go hungry. Seeing life-expectancy drop for large groups, even as it polishes the world's best hospitals.

Anand Giridharadas: A...

 and rock smoothed and polished by ace the ace exposed the hard bedrock called schist solid enough for sinking deep foundations to support tall buildings

Polish

To make something smooth and shiny by rubbing it.