#gold

Every society has the criminals it deserves. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#criminal #emma-goldman #politics #society #anarchism

Gold is the corpse of value... ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#money #value #money

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#college #emerson #gold #knowledge #wealth

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#death #emily-gold #love #suicide #death

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?' ↗

— Javier Bardem

#after #back #come #doing #go

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#because #been #golden #hours #letting

Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#came #edge #gold #inside #made

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#creates #depressed #every #gold #gone

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#attention #bank #bank account #divert #gold

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#got #i #instrument #me #people