“I'm sitting in the bleachers, watching longingly as all the boys and umbumped girls in my Personal Health and Fitness class play Muggle Quidditch. I don't even like the game very much, I think it's silly, but I so miss physical activity that I'd be thrilled if I could run around the gymnasium with a broom between my legs, chasing after the human snitch wearing a gold pinny.” IfsThinkingHumansPlayRunningGirlGamesClassBoysMissingActivitySittingGoldLegsSillyIf I CouldChasingHealth And FitnessPhysical ActivityBroomsMugglesGymnasiumsBleachersSnitchPersonal HealthQuidditch Author:Megan McCafferty
“Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover.” MenGirlLoversWalkingBedGoldRingsBarsChainsBeachLatinWinkingWalking On The Beach Author:Antonio Banderas
“My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.” WorldEyeCareGirlStrongWishMy OwnForgetSweetMetsLaughterHumorousGoldDearRingsHis EyesFlagsLitChimesForget HimDear Love Book:Not So Deep as a Well Source: Not So Deep as a Well
“But men don't come in just two groups, one of gold and the other of lead. They are a mix of both." "And what about women?" "Pure gold, my girl," Rayvan answered with a chuckle.” MenTwoGirlGroupsPureGoldMy GirlChuckles Author:David Gemmell
“I have a little piece of advice for all the single guys out there, this is a piece of gold so please write this down. If you have the opportunity to star in a movie, do it. Seriously, I find it's a lot easier to meet girls.” IfsWritingLittlesGuyGirlOpportunityStarsPiecesAdviceEasierPleaseGoldSingle Guy Author:Vince Vaughn
“If people are looking at me in my hometown, then every woman that races against me in the peloton is as well. I can tell you, every one of them now believes that they can do it. When I go to a Cascade or Nature Valley and they race against me, the girls that are say 30 seconds from me at the races are all of a sudden saying 'I'm 30 seconds from gold I mean why can't I do this.'” PeopleIfsBelieveWellsMeanI CanGirlCan DoRaceGoldSecondsValleysHometownCascade Author:Kristin Armstrong
“You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.” DifferentArtistGirlReadyMoonGoldTeethObsessedBootsFavouriteRipBeing DifferentHendrixLennonBikersVestsDenimBraidsGold Teeth Author:ASAP Rocky
“There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold out of common straw. The king summoned the girl and locked her in a room full of straw and told her to spin it into gold or she would die like a criminal. Poor grape with no one to pick. Luscious and round and sleek. Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. (Rumpelstiltskin)” DiesGirlPoorRoomsCommonKingsPicksDaughterGoldRoundsCriminalsLovelyLockedBrooklynGrapesStraws Book:Transformations Source: Transformations
“I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.” WorldStoriesRememberGirlRichSawsWiseWallClothesGoldAround The WorldParadiseApplesGatesLockedCoinsRagsCobwebsGold Coins Author:Catherine Fisher
“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.” PeopleGivingYearsTwoHomeSeemsHappensAgeGirlFatherNamesPiecesBloodStrangeBandShotsGoldHorseCaliforniaPlusCowardCashTomsFourteenFortsArkansasCredenceWintertimeCash Money Author:Charles Portis
“He moved toward her and cupped her face in his hands. "You are so beautiful that sometimes it hurts just to look at you. Your eyes are a thousand shades of brown and gold with hints of blue and green." He touched her cheekbones with thumbs. "Your freckles are like the girl-next-door fantasy brought to life. Your mouth is sexy and soft and when you smile, the world seems like a better place. Swear you'll never change anything. Swear it.” WorldLooksSometimesHandsSeemsEyeBeautifulFacesGirlNextHurtFantasyDoorsThousandMouthsGoldBlueGreenMovedSexyBrownTouchedShadeSwearIt HurtsBetter PlaceNever ChangeThumbsHintsFrecklesCheekbonesSometimes It HurtsBlue And Green Author:Susan Mallery
“Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.” YoungGirlMouthsGoldSmellDustHoneySunlightViolet Book:Poem without a hero and selected poems Source: Poem without a hero and selected poems
“Have you ever been anyone's?" "No. And you?" "I've never wanted to." "Neither have I. Until I saw this lovely girl in Seattle, with big gold eyes, and pink, full lips... and I wondered if she could understand me.” IfsBigsEyeWantedGirlSawsGoldLipsLovelySeattleUnderstand MeLovely Girl Author:Katy Evans
“Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.” SelfHardMotivationalOrderGirlWinningSportsGoalLeadershipAchieveSelf EsteemGoldAthleteEsteemMedalGold MedalsAchieving Your GoalsPlaying Sports Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.” KnowsLooksLittlesMotivationalGirlWinningChanceBasketballGoldSoccerLook UpHockeyRole ModelsInspirational SportsMedalSoftballGold MedalsPlaying SoccerPlaying Hockey Author:Angela Ruggiero
“Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold’s - the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train - there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.” TogetherGuyGirlBlackPartyGoldTrainNakedCaliforniaGymVeniceUpstairsBlack GirlBodybuilder Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a girl I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.” KnowsWayEnoughStoriesTogetherGirlForceDarkLove IsGriefPiecesBearsGoldShiningAbsenceCarrieThreadStitchesEmbroideryShining Out Author:Wendell Berry
“Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.” MenWorldLittlesTwoCountryYoungGirlEvilNationsJusticeEnemySeeingDoorsTelevisionPrideGayGoldThirdsSocial JusticeNotionCastsSillyIgnorantSellingCollectionsEmpiresGrandmotherMedalThird WorldSeducingGay MenGold MedalsCalculatingOthernessThird World CountriesDeviantsDevianceAvon Author:Anna Quindlen