Gold Quotes · Page 59

Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen.

— David Letterman

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

— Leonardo da Vinci

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

— Seth Godin

Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

— Tom Waits

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

— Albert Einstein

With volatility, you have the potential for greater gains but also greater losses.

— Edmund Moy

To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.

— Jordyn Wieber

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

— Robert Browning

It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues. It's just fake gold and plastic... We crying for votes but…

— Nick Cannon

MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.

— Don Cornelius

When I won gold medals in both the 200m and 400m events at the 1958 Asian Games, the then chief of army…

— Milkha Singh

One thing that's unique to 'Uncharted' is something called 'chasing picture,' where Naughty Dog run a section of gameplay and I'm allowed…

— Nolan North

Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked…

— Anonymous

To see someone manifest all the astral lights, to be surrounded by light, to have light emanating from their body, pulsing waves…

— Frederick Lenz

I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the…

— Frank Marshall Davis

At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad…

— Edward Gibbon

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen…

— Aldous Huxley

Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been…

— Anonymous

So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian…

— John Lennon

There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or…

— Jeff Daniels

Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and…

— Isaac Newton

Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that…

— John Flanagan

Gold is unique because it has the age-old aspect of being viewed as a store of value. Nevertheless, it’s still a commodity…

— Seth Klarman

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

— John Desmond Bernal

Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

— John Clare

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

— Ava Gardner

Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten…

— Anonymous

“The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.”

— Patrick O'Brian

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

— Erica Jong

Money is not something you just print. It must be backed by something, either good economy or gold.

— Mahathir Mohamad

“Tomorrow I’ll take you out to see the gold beetles. They’re amazing: they eat dirt and poop out gold ore.”

— Lev Grossman

“More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self”

— Napoleon Hill

When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.

— Anonymous

Anything that's shiny, you can mix together. I love rhinestones with sequins, or baubles with fun gold metallics.

— Jeannie Mai

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel,…

— Randy Travis

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

— Peter Schiff