Gold Leaf Sayings

#1. I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.

Doug Dawson

#2. Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.

Bee Wilson

#3. Catholic, I discovered, meant a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin, and guilt.

Matt Haig

#4. I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

Candace Bushnell

#5. A jagged object cut the sky above the roofs; it was half a spire, still holding the glow of the sunset; the gold leaf had long since peeled off the other half. The glow was red and still, like the reflection of a fire: not an active fire, but a dying one which it is too late to stop.

Ayn Rand

#6. Besides, Prague is famous for its many churches with gold-leaf covered domes. In the sunshine, Prague is golden. I fell in love for ever. At the end of the five day stay, the entire group boarded a train for Paris. Although my parents knew the time of my arrival, they could not travel on the

Pearl Fichman

#7. Catherine [of Siena] sent the Pope five oranges which she had candied and covered with gold leaf ... She develops the theme of the difference between the bitter and the sweet pain, and gives the Pope a recipe for making candied oranges.

Sigrid Undset

#8. Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet finds his models in his laurel coppice. But the Duende, on the other hand, must come to life in the nethermost recesses of the blood.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#9. I started experimenting with jewelry in my 20s - I was playing around with gemstones and painting things in gold leaf, and it turned into this huge obsession for me, so I launched my first jewelry line, Jade Inc.

Jade Jagger

#10. I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#11. In walking with God, a man will go just as far as he believes, and no further.

J.C. Ryle

#12. They turned over the reception desk and the poor security guards did the only thing they could do. They ran.

Marlon James

#13. I am covered with fine gold," said the Prince, "you must take it off, leaf by leaf, and give it to my poor.

Oscar Wilde

#14. Nothing Stay Forever"
"Nature's first green is gold,
"Her hardest hue to hold.
"Her early leaf's a flower;
"But only so an hour.
"Then leaf subsides to leaf.
"So Eden sank to grief,
"So dawn goes down today.
"Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost

S.E. Hinton

#15. We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.

Pico Iyer

#16. Let China's earth, enrich'd with colour'd stains,
Pencil'd with gold, and streak'd with azure veins,
The grateful flavour of the Indian leaf,
Or Mocho's sunburnt berry glad receive.'
MRS. BARBAULD.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#17. The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

William C. Bryant

#18. I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

David Hockney

#19. For I shall learn from flower and leaf,
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.

Sara Teasdale

#20. The pale leaf falls in pallor, but the green leaf turns to gold; We that have found it good to be young shall find it good to be old;

G.K. Chesterton

#21. Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

S.E. Hinton

#22. There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

Timothy Keller