Best 1297 quotes in «gold quotes» category

10 years ago [in 2006], nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years later, about 30 percent were eligible. With the new rules, we figure about 40 percent of the top 200 best-sellers for the year will be eligible. We were very cautious in our approach to changing how we calculate what is eligible because the integrity of the process is our foremost consideration. It's difficult to get certified sales awards, and it's a big deal and we didn't want there to be a huge change in how many would be eligible.

A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

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

A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.

A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.

A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.

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.

A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.

After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.

A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those who do not create wealth but instead seek to extract wealth from others through inflation, inside information, and market manipulation.

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense.

A good heart 'is worth gold.

A good name is better than bags of gold.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters

A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.

All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.

AKG controls the heart of one of Ghana's most exciting new gold belts.

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

All issues - purchasing and selling of currency - are related to the regulation of the national currency market. However, it is still difficult to say what will be the reaction of the Central Bank and if it would lead to increasing the gold and foreign currency reserves.

All my life, I've dreamed in gold.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

All that glitters is sold as gold.

All that glisters is not gold.

America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose nature is Existence-Intelligence; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.