Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen McCrory

I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

Naomi Wolf

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.

All that glitters is sold as gold.

Oliver Sacks

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Nouriel Roubini

Gold has no increasing value. And if you're really worried about, say, inflation rising, I would buy Spam. You know, you can eat Spam. You cannot eat gold.

Nouriel Roubini

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.

Mary Kom

Never buy gold, simply earn it

Martin Short

An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.

Malcolm Mclaren

Don't kill the golden goose.

Mahatma Gandhi

Labour is priceless, not gold.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

The Comets organization proved to me their word is as good as gold. That's all I go by. If I can't trust you, I don't want to work for you.

Neal Stephenson

Gold is the corpse of value...

Shane Claiborne

In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne.

Michelle Kwan

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

John Osborne

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

John Morrill

Like Liberty, gold never stays where it is undervalued.

John Desmond Bernal

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

Joe Hill

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

Joan Robinson

The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise.

George Leonard

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.

Logan Pearsall Smith

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

Lynne Truss

Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.

Lysander Spooner

Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It is only such a quantum of market value as exists in a given piece of silver or gold.

John Gardner

Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

Leo Tolstoy

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

John Maynard Keynes

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

John Lothrop Motley

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

John Locke

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

John Leeson

It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.