Quotes About King Midas

#1. Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. Like King Midas, I am left with nothing
but this unreasonable hope
that, somehow, my strange life
and my lost family
will return
to normal.

Margarita Engle

#3. He traced my lower lip. I braced myself for the pain that was sure to follow because he was like a sadistic King Midas, turning everything he touched into pain.

Nenia Campbell

#4. I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

Albert Einstein

#5. Legendary King Midas never knew the feel of silk or a human hand after everything he touched turned to gold. Humans are stuck in a similar Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true texture of quantum reality because everything we touch turns to matter.

Nick Herbert

#6. That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back
'
'I hate that.'
King Midas & Lit

Rick Riordan

#7. Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner.

Tim Gordon

#8. Once I got started acting I loved it.

Jack Nicholson

#9. Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

Oliver Goldsmith

#10. Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

Peter Kreeft

#11. Never lie in writing.

Mason Cooley

#12. She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.

Richard Brautigan

#13. I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

Bette Davis

#14. You'd think a house would last forever, but the truth is a strong wind or a wrecking ball can devastate it. The family inside is not so different.

Jodi Picoult

#15. Being able to do everything in the business doesn't necessarily mean you should do everything.

K Callan

#16. If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.

Danny Masterson