#gold

Phoebe was thinking, Insubordinate. What a lovely word. And when was the last time she'd heard a nice-looking young man use it? Why-never, that's when. What a treat. And to have a ruler who could say conscientious and citizenry in the same sentence. Lovely. ↗

— Jean Ferris

#lovely #phoebe #thrice-upon-a-marigold #words #love

Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station. ↗

— R.W. Rivers

#crime-fiction #crime-thriller #gold #love #mystery-thriller

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system so everybody could drink it and we would all love each other. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#love

Holy crap. Is that an elephant penis? ↗

— Lexi Blake

#lexi-blake #the-men-with-the-golden-cuffs #men

I can give you a girl’s perspective,” Eve offered with a smile. “I’m totally not into the girl-on-girl thing, but I know an attractive pussy when I see one. ↗

— Lexi Blake

#lexi-blake #the-men-with-the-golden-cuffs #men

I actually told him to f**k himself. And that if he needed an ass to paddle, he should look in the mirror. ↗

— Lexi Blake

#lexi-blake #the-men-with-the-golden-cuffs #men

Things were definitely going badly. The night looked like ending in disaster. In one corner of the room Maria Blond had started squabbling with Léa de Horn, whom she accused of sleeping with men who weren't really rich. ↗

— Émile Zola

#squabbling #men

Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#money

There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene. ↗

— Toba Beta

#future #gene #genetics #glory #gold

A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold; While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?- Then you've a hunch was the music meant...hunger and night and the stars. ↗

— Robert Service

#alone #gold #music #music