So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.
Patti LaBelle
ShoesMeDiamondsYearPartyWant
The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers.
Edward Zwick
ChildDiamondsAfricaSoldiersIssue
Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
Sam Kean
DiamondsTableNeighborDressesUp
The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
La'Porsha Renae
SunDiamondsHouseReactionRising
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
Earl Nightingale
MomentDiamondsYouRightMiddle
I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers
GodMeDiamondsBendOverFloor
For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game.
Sonia Rykiel
MeGameDiamondsFakeLuxuryReal
Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!
Ron White
DiamondsUpHerMinuteShut
It's diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.
Jolene Blalock
DiamondsWeekCheeseNextYour
When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with companies from all over the world - but these companies don't share, really, their profits - this is called post-post-colonial.
Claire Denis
BusinessWorldDiamondsYouOil
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray
LifeDiamondsRealVicePassMany
No pressure, no diamonds.
Thomas Carlyle
DiamondsPressureNo Pressure
As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.
Richard Harding Davis
GoodBeautifulWomanDiamondsKnow
I like YouTube; it's really entertaining. A lot of it is crappy stuff, but there are a couple diamonds in the rough there.
Kevin Nealon
DiamondsYouTubeEntertainingStuff
One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.
Georgina Chapman
MeMomSparkleDiamondsBackWay
Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.
Lawrence Wright
ProblemsDiamondsCorruptionWealth
I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.
ChildrenDiamondsCountryNothing
There's a perception in certain parts of the media that I love 'bling.' I love diamonds. I love to show off. I really don't understand where that comes from.
Raheem Sterling
LovePerceptionDiamondsMediaOff
I don't want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds - having never helped anyone. That's not my path. That's not what I care about. That's not what excites me.
Kat Graham
AlonePathMeCareDiamondsWant
If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.
Vinod Khosla
WorldDiamondsWorthNothingNew
Diamonds are created through the pressures of earth and then have to go through a million dirty roads to get to the cutter who turns it into a beautiful massage. And that's like human beings. They go through a lot to be who they are in front of you.
Jeremy Sisto
BeautifulRoadsDiamondsYouEarth
As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
Smokey Robinson
MoneyDiamondsHumanMaterialistic
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Mary Wortley Montagu
DiamondsLibertyChainsPrefer
We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.
Jojo Moyes
LiveAgeFoodDiamondsSexSeem
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