Top 1200 Silver Spoon Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

In Leh, the bazaar is famous for its silver jewellery and leather bags, both of which I bought in plenty.

And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.

For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.

Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.

When you see a knife, fork and a spoon it seems to me like there are two of them together on one side of a plate, and then there's one on the other. It seems like a couple and a singleton. It seems obvious to me!

When Allen Ginsberg was still alive, he was was an artist, but he was very local. He was just another wing-nut in the neighborhood and he was very accessible. You'd see him in Tompkins Square Park or in the local delicatessen, in one of the greasy spoon restaurants on First Avenue or a Chinese restaurant.

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about... The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test - Time and change - are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. For 'mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. But old friends, alas! may die, New friends must their place supply. Cherish friendship in your breast- New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

Crackers!” said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly.

Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.

Any aluminum product may scratch or chip with use, exposing its natural silver color. That is normal.

The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

This new age metal Luminex Uno- made up of gold, platinum and silver is excellent.

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

I can't even count the number of times I've obliterated my diet with a binge session. One second, I'm floating along just fine, four days into a successful low-carb lifestyle. The next? I'm standing alone in a dark kitchen, eating a sleeve of Ritz crackers and cream cheese with a spoon.

With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV.

You may have crap that wants to drag you down, but if you really like what you're doing, then there's always a silver lining.

All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.

I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

Gold and Silver have always had value, never gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.

A friend once told me that I was always so manipulative, 'a silver-tongued devil,' as he put it. I was never aware of it.

Cinema immortalizes ordinary people. Not just the ones we watch on the silver screens, but also the behind the scene heroes.

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.

While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.

Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.

Whatever earnings I got from winning this silver medal, part will be used for my college education.

I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

When the 'Batman' TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.

Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.

We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!

It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it.

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you.'

Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed them organic yogurt by candlelight on a seaside cliff at sunset.

Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.