Top 100 The Silver Quotes
#1. The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.
Christopher Morley
#2. There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.
Robert Bridges
#3. You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs.
- The Silver Chair
C.S. Lewis
#4. All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.
E. E. Cummings
#5. Sometimes I feel like the kid left out - the weirdo with the silver hair that no one likes to talk to.
Emilia Clarke
#6. The apartment was a disaster.
A consummate disaster.
If mess-making were an Olympic sport, this mess would have won the bronze medal, maybe the silver.
Penny Reid
#7. Rehearsals at the Silver Slipper's Burlesque Review had been brutal because of the physical toll on the body. Rehearsals for Cristos the Incredible were brutal because Cristos was an ass.
Kristen Painter
#8. The louder he proclaims his honesty, the faster we count the silver.
Sue Grafton
#10. The ginger she-cat behind him is Scarlet, and the silver tabby is O'Hara.
Erin Hunter
#11. The silver flask called to him.
Blue Coyote Motel
Dianne Harman
#12. I half imagined I could taste the silver on his nails, as sharp as glitter in my mouth. Maybe when he touched me, colour would spill from his hands like heat.
Alexis Hall
#13. Only the silver head of his cane blazed with reflected fire, held aloft above the grave like a medieval necromancer summoning spirits from the vasty deep.
Lauren Willig
#14. Look for the silver lining whenever a cloud appears in the blue.
Anonymous
#15. If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.
Charles R. Swindoll
#16. You don't like birthdays, Aelan?" The silver eyes ran over her gently. "Because I can help you love birthdays...trust me." ~Nolan
Sarah Brocious
#17. You never win the silver, you only lose the gold
Shahrukh Khan
#18. And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun.
W.B.Yeats
#19. The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.
John Keats
#20. DOST thou not hear the silver bell,
Through yonder lime-trees ringing?
'Tis my lady's light gazelle.
To me her love thoughts bringing,
All the while that silver bell
Around his dark neck ringing.
Thomas Moore
#21. She tops up the silver pot with the hot water, steeping every sixpence's worth of tannin out of those tea leaves floating in the water like bloated ants. Do ants bloat? She has to say she has never seen a bloated ant. The injustice of it.
Mark O'Flynn
#22. The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.
Natalie Massenet
#23. Despite all the silver of Diana and Mercury, their images will be found on the lake. For the sculptor looking for new clay, he and his people will be flooded with gold.
Nostradamus
#24. This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
Rumi
#25. Not as all other women are
Is she that to my soul is dear;
Her glorious fancies come from far,
Beneath the silver evening star,
And yet her heart is ever near.
James Russell Lowell
#26. The blind was down; but outside the moon rose up out of the sea, and laid the silver path across the waters that is the way to places at the edge of the world and beyond, for those that can walk on it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#27. The waxing moon seemed close enough to touch, if one were brave enough to risk the silver pinpricks of the stars that thorned around it.
Kat Howard
#28. You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
Earl Scruggs
#29. Who can fear
Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll-
Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year?
Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll
The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear,
To love me also in silence, with thy soul.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#30. The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.
Elton John
#31. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
William Shakespeare
#32. The heels reminded me of the silver stakes Eddie and Rose used to kill Strigoi.
Richelle Mead
#33. It was queer how it all hurt you--how the odor of the night, the silver sheen of the moon, the moist feeling of the dew, the whispering of the night breeze, how somewhere down in your throat it hurt you.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#34. I want to take you to a place of pure magic ... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.
Gabrielle Roth
#35. You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.
Simon Cowell
#36. Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn't have one, she'd be mad.
Rick Riordan
#37. I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.
Neil Young
#38. I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.
Sylvia Plath
#39. It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.
Hattie McDaniel
#40. One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up.
Mike Birbiglia
#41. I don't want all the silver and gold of the world, Dillon said. What I'm seeking is to know. I want to understand God and I want to know His wisdom.
Pat Patrick
#42. Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. I am the guardian of the sleeping fawn; the snow is dear to me; and the moon rising; and the silver sea.
Virginia Woolf
#44. Springtime blooms the starry tree
Bearing fruit the mariners see.
High by night and low by dawn
The silver apple guides us home.
F.T. McKinstry
#45. To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
Lafcadio Hearn
#46. Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide ... and our teachers know that.
Solomon Ortiz
#47. This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.
Terry Pratchett
#48. Life had once been clear-cut, black and white, but now, the colors had starting to bleed together into an ugly gray. That gray seemed to follow me everywhere. I just had to remember to keep finding the silver lining.
Cameo Renae
#49. Do they have names?"
"The red one with the silver markings is Lady Liadrin, the dark blue one is Queen Azshara, and the black one with the long, wavy fins is Lady Vashj."
She glanced at him. Those are the strangest names for fish I've ever heard. What's wrong with Dory?
Paige Tyler
#50. He had to get inside. It was essential that he know everything, the routes she took, her schedule, and the lay of the land.
The silver moon glowed overhead, mocking him. Somewhere in the trees an owl hooted its laughter at his failure.
Randy
from Spring Cleaning
Coming Summer 2012
Brandi Salazar
#51. Leave the light and travel the shadow-lands, said Blaise, repeating the inscription on the silver box.
Teresa Flavin
#52. I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.
Jerry Rice
#53. He lids squeezed closed. They were the dams to the silver trails of his soul leaking out.
Dan Skinner
#54. You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
Beau Willimon
#55. I am a sanguinely optimistic person, I see the bright side, the silver lining, a half-full glass. Hence, my day is always sunny even though the sky foreboding.
Joseph V. Angeles
#56. Look for the silver lining in every cloud and those revelations will create the thread to weave the fabric of a renewed and joyous life.
Joy Smith
#57. The Tribe of Endless Hunting has not shown that to me," Stoneteller replied. "I do not know when the silver cat will come, or from where, but we will know it when he arrives.
Erin Hunter
#58. So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.
P.G. Wodehouse
#59. Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.
Anna Akhmatova
#60. The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
Frederick Douglass
#61. Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
Alexander Pope
#62. Sometimes I wish I was in the movies ... Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody'd know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I'd just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.
Alan Heathcock
#63. She left the event with gold medals in the all-around, vault, floor and uneven bars. She also nabbed the silver medal on the balance beam.
Christine Dzidrums
#64. Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic diagonals, trying to scrape away the silver powder from the window so you could look inside.
Dave Barry
#65. The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.
Jill McCorkle
#66. Wonderful power the Silver Shoes gave her. So the Wicked Witch laughed to herself, and thought, I can still make her my slave, for she does not know how
L. Frank Baum
#67. He is beauty, inside and out.
He is the silver lining in a world of darkness.
He is my light.
Marie Lu
#69. All right, indeed! That was hardly the word. All right, in her blue jacket with the silver buttons! All right with her gold locket round her neck! All right with the parrot-headed umbrella under her arm!
P.L. Travers
#70. He had always looked at the world and seen it in a thousand different colors, his fingers itching to paint each turn of light, each curl of the wind sweeping through the silver streets.
Every shade was unique in Valen's eyes.
And yet... he was losing colors, too.
Sasha Alsberg
#71. I had believed in the logic of popular songs. I had looked for the silver lining. I had walked on through the storm.
Joan Didion
#72. The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank.
Janet Morris
#73. The soul is but senses catching fire,
Marvellous music of the body's lyre, -
The angel senses are the silver strings
Stirred by the breath of some unknown desire.
Richard Le Gallienne
#74. After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
Isaac D'Israeli
#75. The Silver Spoon, the best-selling Italian cookbook of the last 50 years.
Timothy Ferriss
#76. I am not sinuous or suave; I sit among you abrading your softness with my hardness, quenching the silver-grey flickering moth-wing quiver of words with the green spurt of my clear eyes.
Virginia Woolf
#77. I tried to do my bracelet up, but couldn't get the clasp to fasten, and before I tossed it across the room, Will grabbed my hand and fixed the silver clasp for me.
"Jesus, Mark, surely Batman can do up his own bracelets."
"Batman. Bat. Man, Will," I reminded him. "I'm not Magneto.
N.R. Walker
#78. I thought I had one of your father, but it didn't develop." Tremaine nodded ruefully. "It's the silver nitrate in the film stock. He doesn't show up on it." Giaren stared at her blankly. "That was a joke," she added belatedly. "Oh." He sounded relieved.
Martha Wells
#79. Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!
Edgar Allan Poe
#80. We're going through the black air with our arms wide and our feet straight out behind like a dolphin's tail, and we're going to think we'll never hit the silver down there till suddenly it'll be all warm round us and full of little kissing, caressing waves.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#81. but, as we know, even when the silver wears away and you're left with copper, if you attend to it every day it has a gleam all its own.
Mark Helprin
#82. I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.
Jorge Luis Borges
#83. And when he became conscious of a human figure dark against the silver stream, sitting on a large boulder and looking rather like a large bird, it was perhaps with some of the premonitions proper to a man who meets the strangest friendship of his life.
G.K. Chesterton
#84. Pritkin put a heavy hand on my shoulder, which was just as well. It probably wouldn't have looked good to choke the head of the Silver Circle to death right before the coronation. Then again, my reputation was shot to hell anyway ...
Karen Chance
#85. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, she says, raising the silver chalice to our lips. Receiving from her is my favorite part of Sunday services. She always says her line with such joy, like it is the greatest thing in the world, which, of course, it is.
Lauren F. Winner
#86. It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.
Richard Parks Bland
#87. The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon that looks down upon the resorts of summer time. Wise, ripe, and portly, like an old Bacchus, it waxes night after night.
Donald C. Peattie
#88. Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.
Patricia C. Wrede
#89. Never were finer snares for womens' honesties
Than are devis'd in these days ; no spider's web's
Made of a daintier thread, than are now practis'd
To catch love's flesh-fly by the silver wing
Thomas Middleton
#90. At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.
Helen Mirren
#91. So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
Sylvia Plath
#92. Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side.
Cassandra Clare
#93. Always, just beyond all these things, was the silver sea, the lace border around all land like the silence around sounds or the unknowns beyond all knowledge.
Rebecca Solnit
#94. One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
Jeff Goodell
#95. His eyes looked directly at her, and she felt something jump inside. The eyes, the voice, the face, the silver hair, the easy way he moved his body, old ways, disturbing ways, ways that draw you in. Ways that whisper to you in the final moment before sleep comes, when the barriers have fallen.
Robert James Waller
#96. No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look for. The silver lining will come, if not to us then to next generation or the generation after that. And maybe with that generation the lining will no longer be thin.
Wangari Maathai
#97. What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?
Nellie Melba
#98. DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
Ambrose Bierce
#99. I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.
Tom Kite
#100. The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned
Kathleen Raine
