Solomon's Mines Quotes

#1. All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.

Richard H. Davis

#2. Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

Hedda Hopper

#3. Be good, or good at it.

Belo Miguel Cipriani

#4. It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

Jeffrey Burton Russell

#5. We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust; I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement.

Henry James

#7. It's like we are underground, in a cemetery....the sky is the earth...
We are hibernating, sleeping all the time and we don't know it. We are dreaming that there is plenty of oxygen.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

#8. My favorite experiences have all been finding myself at one point in a timeline and going in both directions, just discovering at my own pace. If I could admit to be playing some kind of long game, and strategizing this, I would.

Blake Mills

#9. Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

Robert Breault

#10. My beloved is mine and I am his.

Solomon