Quotes of: Gold-standard Keyword

Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

I don't understand," Belle cried. "I gave you gold. You only gave me grief.

The Ballad of Belle Dorcas

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

Betsy-Tacy and Tib

...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...

The Blazing World and Other Writings

At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.

Cloud Atlas

Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

Fabiola Gianotti

Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.

John Joly

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise.

Annie Allen

For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

The Hind and the Panther

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

In the afternoon, over gold screens, I will brush the blue dust of my dreams.

Irradiations; Sand and Spray

Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. -- Virgil

The Silver Crescent

Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can’t;

Martin Eden

Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.

The Magic Shop

An ally in time of need is worth more than gold. (Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan)

Moment of Truth

She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.

The Lion Lies Down with the Lamb

It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy

The Master of Ballantrae

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.

The Spire

The easiest way to hide your gold is to disguise it as Spanish bullion and store it on the bottom of the ocean floor.

Sleepwalking is restercise

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories