Beaten Gold Quotes

#1. It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping it to cheap perfume, each word blown to aneurysm.

Susan Mitchell

#2. Our house is quiet, small and plain,
and yet its rooms run far and wide.
A hundred pencils, swift as rain,
writing on sheets of beaten gold
would not be quick enough to hold
the strange adventures
shadows hide ...

Nancy Willard

#3. We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.

Meir Soloveichik

#4. I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza

Lion Feuchtwanger

#5. We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one time or another. Therefore, it is likely that all beings in this universe have familial connections.

Dalai Lama

#6. To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

Benjamin Franklin

#7. Count the number of times you have spoken. And really meant what you have said. Count the number of times you have chosen to keep quiet instead.

Jay Woodman

#8. The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

David Copperfield

#9. Symbols

A storm-beaten old watch-tower,
A blind hermit rings the hour.

All-destroying sword-blade still
Carried by the wandering fool.

Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade,
Beauty and fool together laid.

W.B.Yeats

#10. ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet.

Bruce Schneier

#11. When everything comes easily to you, it never challenges you to change.

Katie Kacvinsky

#12. A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

Abigail Disney