Everything I touch turns to gold.
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin. . . Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
How few, like Daniel, have God and gold together!
Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but gold paint. That’s a unique way to cover up herpes.
God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see.
A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.
I am a hooker with a heart of gold.
We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense. . . that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.
On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!
Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!
Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.
The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.
The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.