Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.
Most of us weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouth, but if life dealt you all the wrong cards, you still have to play.
With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV.
The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
Life has changed after Rio. Winning a silver medal was a huge moment for me. It has come with a lot of responsibilities.
Ten silver saxes,
a bass with a bow
The drummer relaxes
and waits between shows
For his cinnamon girl.
Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
I've not done badly for a boy from Stockwell, where I used to gaze at the silver screen in wonderment, little realising I'd be a part of this magical world.
Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play.
What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?
I think anybody who is interested in keeping their money safe from the criminal banking system would want gold, silver, and Bitcoin.
The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.
My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver curve of river folds the traveller into its embrace.
Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.
I won a silver medal. But really, I ended up running the fastest race of my life to become part of something that transcended the Games.
Nothing's handed to you on a silver platter. Everything takes work, no matter how many records you put out.
One thing I liked about 'Silver Bell' is that I barely knew how to play in the tuning I was writing in, and I just went for it anyway.
The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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.
Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.
Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.
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.
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.
Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?
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.
We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there's no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.
When I was a kid in the '60s, I went shopping in downtown Silver Spring. Hecht's, JCPenney, the little retailers - they sponsored all my sports teams.
Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.
The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.
Everybody is not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There are only a very small percentage of those types of people, you know what I mean?
The moon twangs its silver strings;
The river swoons into town;
The wind beds down in the pines,
Covers itself with stars.
After our life history was shown on the silver screen and much appreciated by the audiences, I have more of a responsibility on my shoulders now.
Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy.
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.
I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver.
It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver medals for the U.S.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.
The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.
In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike.
A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!
We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!
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.
We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.
The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.
The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.
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