Silver Quotes - Page 2

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt

We're on a collision course for disaster. All we can do, all your viewers can do is brace for impactBuy gold. Buy silver Get as far away as you can from U.S. currency and the U.S. economy.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Most of my work involves slowing down rather than speeding up. I prefer to look at prints than scans, and I prefer to look at original silver prints rather than digital prints. I prefer to look at fewer images, but spend time with those individual images.

Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.

The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

You have to earn money the hard way. Because no-one will serve it up to you on a silver platter.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time.

What we don't know is about Jeb Bush and cocaine. But we do know that he did once had his brother Florida on a silver platter.

I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

There are no silver bullets.

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.

The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.