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“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.”

Giving Certain Air Gold Affair Miserable Charming

Author:Moliere

“The Congress should not be creating money out of thin air, which is what Lincoln did when he created greenbacks. But it is a congressional responsibility to maintain gold and silver as a legal tender.”

Should Responsibility Air Creating Gold Congress Silver Gold And Silver Thin Air

Author:Ron Paul

“Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm, the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air. I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song, for I know well that only words, that words alone, like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.”

Knows Giving Mind Believe Wells Art Whole Age Song Difficult Air Land Fool Mountain Art Is Tasks Gold Army Heavy Rhythm Firm Troops Believe In Me Crowns No Fear Foe Have No Fear

Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

“A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.”

Ifs Men World Mind Heart May Whole Body Grace Air Gold Circles Whole World Chests Covetousness Triangles

Author:Edmund Spenser

“If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was at the Athens Olympics. Chris Hoy won the Gold Medal in the kilometre time trial and that was incredible.”

Ifs Moments Happened Air Special Picks Gold Incredibles Trials Olympics Medal Gold Medals Athens

Author:Jill Douglas

“I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.”

Thinking Pleasure Air Wind Garden Gold Prison Leaving Pale Restless Purple Arabia Toss Blooming Lilac Swaying

Book:De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.”

Men Air Hair Red Gold Bones Flesh Rings Cake Ashes Filling Soap Lucifer Poke Red Hair Wedding Ring

Author:Sylvia Plath

“And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.”

“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.”

Remember Air Gold Clean Remembered October Quiver Maple

Book:Peace Like a River

Source: Peace Like a River

“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.”

Source: Bright Young Things

“Kid?” – Kyrian “I’m not worthy.” – Nick “What?” – Kyrian “Dude, that’s a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, and Bentley. And I’m not talking the cheap models. Those are the top of the top of the top of the line, fully loaded. I swear, that’s real gold trim in the Bugatti. There’s more money in metal in here than my brain can even tabulate. Oh my God! I shouldn’t even be breathing the same air.” – Nick”

Real Kids Lines Brain Talking Air Models Gold Worthy Breathing Metals More Money Swear Loaded Not Talking Ferrari Not Worthy Bentley Lamborghini Real Gold Aston Martin Alfa Romeo

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.”

World Earth Night Black Water Fire Violence Air Sea Moon Gold Shame Moved Speed Rhythm Silver Ritual Elders Unicorn Air And Water Opal

Book:Black Unicorn

Source: Black Unicorn

“Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.”

Littles Use Water Air Gold Contrary Goods Quantity

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation