The Midas Touch Quotes

#1. I don't know what the opposite is of the Midas touch, but you shitbirds have it.

Michael Zarocostas

#2. Some people have the Midas touch, other's dip their fingers in sticky, permanent black ink, Smudged. Unlucky.

Amy Matayo

#3. You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.

Henny Youngman

#4. She only had a few coins to her name, but she had the Midas touch when it came to turning destitution into dreams.

Michael Schmicker

#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. This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus - that, come what may, He will use us for His own glory and our real good!

John Gibson Paton

#7. The discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

David Irving

#8. Having survived something like that, it shows a person they can take more than they thought. It tempers the soul, and if it doesn't destroy you, it can make you stronger.

Sometimes the old cliches weren't just bullshit.

Tymber Dalton

#9. If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.

C. JoyBell C.

#10. Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

John Wolcot

#11. Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

Michael Oakeshott

#12. I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Francis Ford Coppola

#13. It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.

Alexander Berkman

#14. Tell the truth and write the story.

Betty Smith

#15. I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote ... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

Shiloh Walker

#16. The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#17. Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

William Cowper