#gold

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#axiom #done #eyes #forgotten #front

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts! ↗

— Virgil

#compel #dost #gold #hearts #human

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road. ↗

— TobyMac

#comes #coverage #get #gold #i

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#golden #hid #hinges #inside #key

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#everything #felt #glory #gold #hands

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#did #gold #got #great #hats

I want to win a gold medal in London. ↗

— Kerri Walsh

#gold medal #i #london #medal #want

I don't know where my first gold medal is. ↗

— Shaun White

#gold #gold medal #i #know #medal

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more. ↗

— Emily Watson

#back #bad #career #early #forget

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#around #cigarette #color #did #dressed