Gold Quotes

I have a vision in my hand that the labels have these vaults, like Scrooge McDuck, except instead of gold coins they have these demo CDs, and sometimes they just go in there and take a swim.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.

We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

I'm just so excited. We all are. We've been waiting for this [the gold medal] for years now and it's finally here. This meant so much. It just felt so good.

Everyone wants to know about the gold ring. Everyone knows already - it's ridiculous.

In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.

I'm not the kind to go out and tell people 'Oh yeah I'm a gold medalist.'

I think it doesn't happen overnight, that's for sure. As the first gold medalist since 1984, I think cycling needs to ride that wave right now, because people are excited.

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

In my experience, 'let's think about it' usually ends up as me watching Solid Gold in my basement on prom night.

If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.

I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time.

A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

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.

Labour is priceless, not gold.

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

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

Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.

I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid.

(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.

The real yellow peril: Gold.

You can turn your goals into gold.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.

The morning hour has gold at the mouth.

In autumn, don't go to jewellers to see gold; go to the parks!

Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!

I have a gold bullion and a 'one additional minute for your life' in my hand; as a gift, if you choose the second one, then I say you are a wise person!

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

In the Land of Romance, cheap candles are more valuable than ingots of gold.

Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold.

How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.

I hate gold. I'm sort of a sterling-silver guy.

It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.