Gold Nuggets Quotes

#1. People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history.

Michael Pryor

#2. I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.

Amy Poehler

#3. My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

Richard Dawkins

#4. Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

Isaac Asimov

#5. Edward Cullen?" "Yeah, you know, the vampire? From Twilight?

J.M. Darhower

#6. The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles ... of the gospel.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#7. Nothing is impossible until you believe it to be.

Lisa Popp

#8. Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#9. He had dulled his craving for verbal truth and cared chiefly for truth of mood.

E. M. Forster

#10. I feel emotionally conflicted. It's like when your mother in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche.

Leon M. Lederman

#11. As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

Philip Pullman

#12. Movies are too literal.

E.L. Doctorow

#13. Flawed characters ... a ticking clock ... morally questionable acts on all sides ... moody, evocative art ... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!

Christos Gage

#14. Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

Mark Twain

#15. Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries.

Leon M. Lederman

#16. Taking pictures is like panning for gold. You do it again and again, and sometimes you find a nugget.

Raghubir Singh

#17. whatever you use to keep the pain at bay robs you of the flecks and nuggets of gold that feeling grief will give you.

Anne Lamott

#18. Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

Eugene V. Debs

#19. It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

Deborah Eisenberg

#20. The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

Karen Salmansohn

#21. In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground - or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

Cherie Priest