Pastoral Resources

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

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.

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.