Gold Quotes - Page 23

• Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet of gold chains, each link locked into the one before it, the theorems and functions, one thing making the next inevitable. It's music, hanging there in the middle of space, meaning nothing but itself, and so moving...'

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Moving, Math

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• Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and fit for magicall uses. You may ferment them with gold and silver, by keeping the stone and metal in fusion together for a day, & then project upon metalls. This is the multiplication of ye stone in vertue. To multiply it in weight ad to it of ye first Gold whether philosophic or vulgar.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Dark, Shining

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• A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Principles, Development

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• California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Country, Moving, Land

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The primary reason I'm in real estate, oil, gold, and silver is because the U.S. dollar has become the peso the world. It's becoming more and more worthless as the U.S. is the world's biggest debtor nation.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Oil, Debtors

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• I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

  Anne Bradstreet

  East, Riches, Vow

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• I regard the amount of brainpower going into money management as a national scandal. When some idiot would get rich, they'd say, 'Well, old Charlie was out in the field playing the big brass tuba on the day it rained gold.' A lot of people have become rich lately who were playing the tuba on the day it rained gold.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Tubas, Scandal

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• The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wise, Brother, Wine

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• I am too rich already, for my eyes
  Mint gold, while my heart cries.

  Mervyn Peake

  Eye, Rich, Mint

  "Peake's progress: selected writings and drawings of Mervyn Peake".

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• If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I'd be worth millions and millions.

  Heather Mills

  Bank Accounts, Lots Of Money, Ifs

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. November 21, 2006.

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• The black and gold runs deep in me and I will remain a Steeler for life.

  Hines Ward

  Running, Black, Steelers

  FaceBook post by Hines Ward from May 11, 2017

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• You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Change Yourself

  "La montaña sagrada". www.imdb.com. November 29, 1973.

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• [Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Uncles, Hip Hop

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• Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.

  Kim Thayil

  Fashion, Rocks, Marketing

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• Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.

  Christopher Columbus

  Mean, Soul, Needs

  Christopher Columbus, Richard Henry Major (1870). “Select Letters of Christopher Columbus: With Other Original Documents, Relating to His Four Voyages to the New World”, p.203

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• I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.

  J. Cole

  Games, Two, White

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• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  J Mascis

  Couple, Years, Gold Teeth

  "J Mascis: 'I never took it that seriously'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. August 03, 2012.

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• In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage, and countries are scrambling to secure their own parochial interests at the expense of the common good.

  Lester R. Brown

  Land, Oil, World

  "The New Geopolitics of Food". foreignpolicy.com. April 25, 2011.

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• When I look at asset prices; real estate, bonds, equities, vintage cars… I think that gold is actually one of the few assets that is relatively cheap, relatively inexpensive.

  Marc Faber

  Real, Thinking, Vintage

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• If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Gun, Worry, Bars

  "Gold prices are heading towards $1,000" by Nouriel Roubini, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2013.

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• Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

  Thom Browne

  Simple, Men, Cities

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• Taking pictures is like panning for gold. You do it again and again, and sometimes you find a nugget.

  Raghubir Singh

  Nuggets, Sometimes, Taking Pictures

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• Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred the Great

  New Year, War, Pride

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Money, Men, Thinking

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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• Representing Canada as a hockey player is always a tremendous honor, which also comes with a lot of responsibility. Being able to compete and win a gold medal on our home soil made it a once in a lifetime experience. Capping off the best ever performance by not only the Canadian athletes, but also Vancouver and all Canadians, made for an amazing Olympic experience.

  Scott Niedermayer

  Responsibility, Home, Athlete

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