Silver Quotes - Page 38

• You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf.

  Anthony Langston

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Drunk

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• I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

  Oriah Dreamer

  Stay Strong, Moon, Lakes

  "The Invitation". Book by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, May 1999.

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• Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his skin with each foot strike so that he ran in a hot mist of his own creation. With each slap on the softened asphalt, his soles absorbed heat that rose through his arches and ankles and the stems of his shins. It was a carnival of pain, but he loved each stride because running distilled him to his essence and the heat hastened this distillation.

  James Tabor

  Running, Pain, Fire

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• The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky?

  Hilda Conkling

  Rain, Lakes, Sky

  Hilda Conkling (1929). “Poems by a Little Girl”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold.

  Betty Okino

  Gymnastics, Winning, Thinking

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• I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.

  Ernest Seyd

  Money, Winter, America

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• Nate Silver says this is a 73.6 percent chance that the president is going to win. Nobody in that campaign thinks they have a 73 — they think they have a 50.1 percent chance of winning. And you talk to the Romney people, it’s the same thing.

  Joe Scarborough

  Winning, Thinking, Race

  "Statistician Nate Silver Scores Big On Election Night". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 7, 2012.

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• I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

  Sean Bean

  Couple, Autumn, Tree

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• There are silver ships
  There are gold ships,
  But there are no ships
  Like friendships.

  W Mitchell

  Drinking, Gold, Ships

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• Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.

  Emil Nolde

  Passion, Blood, Silver Bells

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• Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.

  Robert Hunter

  Morning, Fall, Blood

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• Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldn’t be noticed but ultimately not really caring.

  Victoria Finlay

  Children, Loss, Caring

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.152, Ballantine Books

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• The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!

  Thomas Hood

  Moon, Shade, Honey

  Thomas Hood (1852). “Prose and verse”, p.162

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• Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the Heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Night, Air

  "The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

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• November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.

  Jean Hersey

  Running, Morning, Wall

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• God cannot be represented by an image. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. We wrong God, and put an affront upon him, if we think so. God honoured man in making his soul after his own likeness; but man dishonours God if he makes him after the likeness of his body. The Godhead is spiritual, infinite, immaterial, incomprehensible, and therefore it is a very false and unjust conception which an image gives us of God.

  Matthew Henry

  Spiritual, Art, Men

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• Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

  Alexander Pope

  Winter, Shining, Frost

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.293

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• The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).

  Alexandra Fuller

  Grateful, Rain, Night

  Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

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• Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

  Marcella Hazan

  Art, Home, Accomplishment

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• When people become frightened, they look for things of real value. They will go to monetary metals, gold and silver, and they will buy other things, such as buying property. But no matter what we have, whether we have our gold coins or we have our property, if we have an authoritarian government, that is our greatest threat. So, I would like to think that there is no perfect protection, other than shrinking the size and scope and power of government, so that we can be left alone and take care of ourselves.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.peakprosperity.com

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• A wife, domestic, good, and pure,
  Like snail, should keep within her door;
  But not, like snail, with silver track,
  Place all her wealth upon her back.

  Walsham How

  Doors, Track, Wife

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• I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a gold box with a silver pin. Some day I should be grown up, and I should dig up the box and turn the pin.

  Mary Butts

  Song, Father, Tree

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• I had huge fun with Chris Evans, as Captain America, because super-soldier though he may be, he's still a man, up against a God who in his own mind is infinitely superior. Then, in the ring with The Hulk, we've got this silver tongued, lightening quick mind up against the embodiment of rage..Loki has this mercurial, transformative ability, not just physically but intellectually, so not all the fights are purely physical. Mind games? Maybe.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Fun, Fighting, Men

  "New "The Avengers" Photo Surfaces". www.worstpreviews.com. February 20, 2012.

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• Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

  Jason Alexander

  Son, Rocks, Laughing

  "Jason Alexander: George Costanza gets his hair back". Interview with Erica Rivera, www.startribune.com. January 23, 2014.

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• Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue.
  [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

  Horace

  Gold, Virtue, Valuable

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