Billion Gold Marks

Famous quotes containing the words billion, gold and/or marks:

    “SING a song of ‘sistence
    Pocket full of Eye
    Two billion Turtle-doves
    Mourning in a sty”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
    —Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)