I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word ‘lavish’ and everything being magnificent. – Tom Hooper
The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master’s in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold. – Stacey D’Erasmo
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
Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance. – Tove Jansson
I feel like Eurovision is a parallel dimension. It reminds me of ‘Dance Fever’ and ‘Solid Gold’ when I was a kid. Then when you hear these songs sung in English by someone who may or may not understand the words, the unique awesomeness hits you. – Seamus Dever
People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but it’s not gonna be that way. – Steve Prefontaine
Even though I’ve won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back. – Victoria Pendleton
Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that’s it; your career is over. – Sugar Ray Leonard
Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won’t be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don’t discover anything. – Tom Scholz
The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency. – Yanis Varoufakis
The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only – gold. – Woody Harrelson
Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained – mummy after mummy covered in shining gold. – Zahi Hawass
Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them. – Sam Kean
Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal. – Venus Williams
Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year. – Tom Daley
I was determined my 4,000th winner would be in the green and gold colours of J. P. McManus and trained by Jonjo O’Neill, who have been my greatest supporters. – Tony McCoy
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. – William Moulton Marston
When you’re expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you’re the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence. – Scott Hamilton
To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable. – Sebastian Coe
The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever. – Wilma Rudolph
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren’t dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient. – W. Averell Harriman
All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose. – Stacy London
If the world does well, gold will be fine. If the world doesn’t do well, gold will also do fine… but a lot of other things could collapse. – Thomas Kaplan
I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling. – Sidney Crosby
