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Gold Quotes
"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."
26
"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them."
18
"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."
Gold,
14
"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."
12
"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."
Gold,
11
"I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude."
Gold,
11
"Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside."
Gold,
10
"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."
Gold,
10
"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold."
Gold,
10
"One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself."
10
"We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part."
10
"Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse."
10
"As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient."
9
"I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars."
Gold,
9
"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
9
"Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows."
8
"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."
8
"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."
8
"When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package."
8
"Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired."
8
"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."
Gold,
8
"The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold."
7
"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."
7
"They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody."
Gold,
7
"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."
7
"You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold."
Gold,
7
"There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold."
6
"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."
6
"You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me."
6
"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
6
"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."
6
"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
6
"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
Gold,
6
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