Golden Quotes

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.

I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type.

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.