Famous quotes containing the words gold, crew and/or conducted:
“I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Nor aught availed him now
To have built in heavn high towrs; nor did he scape
By all his engines, but was headlong sent
With his industrious crew to build in hell.”
—John Milton (16081674)
“If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesnt have to go to an osteopath, then theres something wrong.”
—Simon Rattle (b. 1955)