Golden Quotes

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?'

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

Joining 'ER,' I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' I've been offered chocolate bars all these years, but there had been no golden ticket. Just the stomachache that was called 'Jake in Progress.'

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

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.

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.'

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.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

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 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.