Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Alan Watts

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

Alan Greenspan

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

Alan Greenspan

Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

Alan Greenspan

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

Alan Greenspan

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

China Mieville

Anything for gold and experience.

Eartha Kitt

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

Dean Cain

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Susie Pelzel

They were grateful. And we were treated with royal southern hospitality.

Alastair Campbell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Alastair Campbell

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

William Shakespeare

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Robert Ballard

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Tim Berners-Lee

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

Victoria Wood

My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena.

Steven Morrissey

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

Charles Caleb Colton

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

Bryan Ferry

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

Joe Russo

People see me in there working and they take off their coats and start to help.

John Connor

There's nothing of the Old West in those places, and you see lots of fur coats and Rolls-Royces.

Sigourney Weaver

I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.

Milla Jovovich

I love all the cableknits and the oversize coats.

Milla Jovovich

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

Erica Jong

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.