I feel like Travis [Stevens] is just a Midas touch producer. Seemingly everything he touches turns to gold lately, so that was quite exciting looking at that prospect.
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.
DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.
The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.
Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.
Everything I touch turns to gold.
Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
Nobody knows how fast he is until they play him. He has games when everything he touches turns to gold.
(on Michael Owen)
Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.
My friends say everything I touch turns to gold. I'll say, 'I've been very lucky.
My friends say everything I touch turns to gold. I'll say, 'I've been very lucky.'
Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!
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.