Gold Quotes - Page 27

• Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Laughing, Shining, Paper

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• I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill
  Such a bright gold under my windowsill!
  Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still?
  Bless me! It's a daffodil!

  Celia Thaxter

  Doe, Glitter, Wonder

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• When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Stars, Eye, Light

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• It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

  Kevin Nealon

  Come Up, Response, Audience

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• Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Class, Riches, Chains

  Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.144

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• I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

  Greg LeMond

  Thinking, Years, Risk

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• There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Morning, Men, Luck

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.49, Applewood Books

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• I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.

  Anton du Beke

  Fun, Latin, Tails

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• I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.

  Donovan Bailey

  Winning, Atlanta, Games

  "I don’t miss running, says Donovan Bailey". Interview with Paul Irish, www.thestar.com. November 28, 2011.

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• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  Ed Balls

  Strong, Party, England

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• People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.

  Sonny Bono

  Song, Writing, Play

  "Sonny Bono Killed In Skiing Accident", www.cnn.com. January 6, 1998.

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• We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Hair, Shoes, Dresses

  "Kelly Cutrone: Fashion Week's Behind the Scenes Superstar" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2010.

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• You know, my uncle wore a lot of jewelry, a lot of gold chains.

  2 Chainz

  Uncles, Jewelry, Chains

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!

  Anna Chlumsky

  Waiting, Mind, Teeth

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• The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

  Red Cloud

  Men, White Man, Land

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• Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

  Scott D. Cook

  Years, Bars, Coins

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• You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Saving, Safe, Silver

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• Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

  Tom Daley

  Winning, Years, Score

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• People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.

  Jessica Ennis

  Thinking, Winning, Ideas

  "Jessica Ennis: 'I'm getting to that point where I'm ready to peak'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I think the Emmy obviously is very prestigious and is the gold standard obviously in terms of television. But the Oscars go beyond that. I believe children, when they're growing up, dream of holding that Oscar.

  Brad Grey

  Dream, Children, Growing Up

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• My friends say everything I touch turns to gold. I'll say, 'I've been very lucky.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Lucky, Turns, My Friends

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• Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

  Howard Blum

  People, Panacea, Feels

  "The Lure of Gold: PW Talks with Howard Blum". Interview with Amy Meng, www.publishersweekly.com. February 21, 2011.

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• When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.

  Howard Blum

  People, Looks, World

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• In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.

  Randy Travis

  Letting Go, Dark, Reality

  Song: The Hole

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• It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.

  Warren Zevon

  Girl, Heart, Reality

  Song: Dirty Life and Times, Album: The Wind, 2003

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