Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“All were successful,and felt like failures. Gold no longer pretended to understand the nature of success.Instead,he pretended not to. He knew the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at… — Michael Lee-Chin Copy Share Image
Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . .… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
For me, back in Sydney, it was just being there and going out and beating Alexander Karelin, 13-time world champion and Olympic… — Rulon Gardner Copy Share Image
I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know… — Billy Koch Copy Share Image
Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Society established gold and silver as a circulating medium and as a legal tender in order that exchanges of commodities might be… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water,… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
I was told that there are about 900 gold medal winners in American Olympic history. When I thought about the number 900,… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who is twisting words in an Orwellian manner, "1984," to exercise… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I played to the best of my ability. Played to win and was fortunate enough to have won a Stanley Cup and… — Chris Pronger Copy Share Image
The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
I have a little piece of advice for all the single guys out there, this is a piece of gold so please… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in… — Charles Anthon Copy Share Image
Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems,… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
And what is a gold medal? I'd never really thought about it before Nagano. Now I realize that it's a dream to… — Michelle Kwan Copy Share Image
All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight That yet shall gild with… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in… — Horace Copy Share Image
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
It always happens around beach resorts, a certain kind of money gravitates to the scene. The gold goes to the water. People… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease… — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting… — Julia Spencer-Fleming Copy Share Image
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