Quotes of: Gold-standard Keyword

As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.

Hari Kunzru

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

Ava: My Story

Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.

I Live Here

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Justine

The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.

Rise of the Morningstar

A gold cage is still a cage. -King David I Oh, go cry in a bag of money. -Queen Christina

The Royal Treatment

With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.

Simultan: Erzählungen

Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking.

The Star Garden

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

Night Train to Lisbon

Love is a rainbow of emotion. My favorite part is the pot of gold and the Irish midget.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

When he did appear his eyes were as brown as I remembered, pupils flecked with gold like beach pebbles.

Sub Rosa

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The air moved slowly around his body, somehow tangible, gold flaked, every dust mote a lantern.

The Raven Boys

I object to that object that’s made of bronze and shaped like my clone. It should be made of gold, and shaped like me.

This Book Has No Title

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

The White Tiger

My eyes are bronze, my hair is turning silver, and my heart is gold. Oh, and my love for you belongs in the Olympics, because it’s Special.

Xazaqazax

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio

One thing that's unique to 'Uncharted' is something called 'chasing picture,' where Naughty Dog run a section of gameplay and I'm allowed to ad-lib over it. We call it 'panning for gold.'

Nolan North

The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation.

Peter Shaffer