Struck Gold Sayings

#1. If you've struck gold, why go in search of brass?

Jeffrey Archer

#2. You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold.

Kassia

#3. I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.

Barry Marshall

#4. Obviously I struck gold with 'Deadwood.' No pun intended.

Jim Beaver

#5. Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.

Idina Menzel

#6. It must have been providence that directed Joel Morwood to dig in the right place, for he struck a lode of pure gold, as wide (comprehensive) as it is deep (profound). What he mined from that lode is a spiritual treasure.

Huston Smith

#7. When you work hard to get somewhere, it's quite nice to show people where you belong.

Jojo Moyes

#8. In their white-daisy bouquet of slim pickings, they cast out all the yellow chrysanthemums, and anything brown was considered wilted.

Alice Pung

#9. She dipped her head, chasing my eyes. "Find her. Go forth and find chocolate cake girl.

G.J. Walker-Smith

#10. I think it's in my mind, and it's driven me my entire life, and it is to offer customers tasteful clothes at good value, meaning it lets the world - or more of the world - afford to dress well.

Mickey Drexler

#11. But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he's right?

Johnny Rich

#12. Most people can't stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.

Reggie Jackson

#14. If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.

Will Rogers

#15. I got my eye on you boy, and when I get my eye on something, it's like search and destroy.

Paris Hilton

#16. It was astounding how a woman, when she struck marital gold, procured not just a new wardrobe and new friends but a new voice straight out of a 1930s gramophone (brittle, mono-stereo) and a vocabulary that reliably included laze, season, and terribly sorry.

Marisha Pessl

#17. Warning note:

Do you really wonder if there's a happily ever after? Because you know that's kind of our thing, right? Look, he chases her, but it all works out. Also it's really hot. Get it!

Alexa Riley

#18. She remembered the summer evenings all full of sunshine. The colts neighed when any one passed by, and galloped, galloped. Under her window there was a beehive, and sometimes the bees wheeling round in the light struck against her window like rebounding balls of gold.

Gustave Flaubert

#19. Stupid male ego.

Tera Lynn Childs

#20. I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Ang Lee

#21. Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.

Doris Lessing