Golden Quotes

For me, it's the reactions from the audiences that are golden. If they enjoy it, then half the battle has been won.

The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.

but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

John Kerry went hunting today. He said he killed a goose. He didn't bring Teresa along because he was a little rusty and he was afraid he might kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected.

Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.

At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.

Well, certainly at the Golden Globes, during every commercial break everyone gets up and schmoozes with each other.

I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'

The film 'Boyhood' won the Golden Globe for best drama. It follows one guy's journey over the course of 12 years - or as Mitt Romney calls that, 'running for president.'

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.

The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew, With golden treasures load his little thighs, And steer his distant journey through the skies.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.

Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

It was a good opportunity for me to wear a NBA jersey. The Golden State Warriors gave me an opportunity to come in and play for them. I was very appreciative of that.

It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

I'd like to begin by thanking the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press for this Golden Globe.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this.

I've always wanted to be like the Hollywood Golden Age actors.

I love The Golden Girls. I've watched recently, and it's sort of insane there's a chef that they're always referring to as "fancy" - the pilot's kind of a mess.

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.

I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.

[The rumor that Leonardo DiCaprio on set was raped by a bear] was as silly as Lady Gaga bumping him or moving his arm out of the way [at the Golden Globes]. People straight be bored.

You have to tap into the child in you. If you can get to that innocent place, then you're golden. That was the subconscious goal for me.

A team like Golden State, when they get into a rhythm they make shots.

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

Golden is a surface colour.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter