The Raiders have been good to me, giving me a second chance to come back around and wear the silver and black.
The only vocal training I had was playing with a tape recorder as a kid, and you know, doing the beginning of the ‘Lone Ranger’ show, with a hearty hi-o silver, and just having fun, never really thinking I would be an announcer.
I come into these competitions to win, not to get silver or bronze, so it is frustrating.
One of my favourite movies is ‘Annie Hall’ because it’s about the silver lining of the break-up.
To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it’s in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.
I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.
Because of Kipling, I’ve sometimes wondered about keeping a mongoose about the house. But given the cobra population in Silver Spring, Maryland – zero, when last I checked – we hardly need a Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
Our biggest learnings come only from the biggest blows, hence, I’d request one and all to look out for the silver linings and focus on positive thoughts and ideas, because as I always say, every cloud has a silver lining, and every sunset ends with a beautiful sunrise.
When I was little, I used to think, ‘That’s the way people in the future are gonna dress! They’ll be wearing space suits, and it will be all silver, all the time. It’s gonna glitter.’
For ‘So Cold the River,’ I’m actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for ‘The Fighter,’ and who also wrote ‘8 Mile,’ which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I’m learning a lot.
My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.
‘Hard Times’ does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel’s subjects managed to find silver linings.
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.
It has been said that sharing my silver medal with that incident on the victory dais detracted from my performance. On the contrary. I have to confess, I was rather proud to be part of it.
Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
If there’s a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.
When I was about 17 I was on the G.B. squad and that’s where I wanted to be. I went to the Commonwealth Games and got silver there, but the three years I was on the team it was London-this, London-that. It was all preparation for the Olympics.
In 2004, I don’t think any Silver Jews fan was probably expecting another record.
The weird thing about the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop is that people come on vacation, and they bring stuff here to sell. They come here to see what we’ll give them for it. Mostly, it’s people from out of town.
To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.
There is much about the shared terrain of being a black person in the United States that is not seen on small or silver screens or in museums or best-selling books, and much of what gets ignored in the mainstream thrives, and is celebrated, on Twitter.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.
Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.
You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it’s hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
Well… I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber bands.
We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange.
In 1990, I was in ‘The Three Sisters’ at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha – the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance.
I’ve always tried to find a silver lining. I’ve always been a glass is half-full kind of person.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
I don’t think there’s ever a silver bullet to any problem. There are always several answers and solutions to a problem.
I’m incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I’m one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.
Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can’t buy or sell them. That’s why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box.
The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head… The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.
Picking from previous works I’ve watched, I really liked Jennifer Lawrence’s ‘Silver Linings Playbook.’ It made me want to play that kind of role some day.
I’ll never go so far to call cancer a gift. It’s a really terrible disease. It’s taken the lives of so many of my fellow friends in the oncology unit. But like any life-interrupted moment, there are silver linings.
I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.
I’d be the biggest hypocrite if I said I really worked very hard for my career, because it was given to me on a silver platter. I can’t take any credit.
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
There will always be storytelling, whether it’s on the big silver screen, or it’s your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.
In the beginning, it was meant to be like a faceless art piece. Then I did the first record and it received enough notice to satisfy my needs. I questioned the procedure out of fear. The Silver Jews was never meant to be recreated live.
Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
I’m a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.
From 1994 to 1996, I turned over every rock in Little Rock, looking for a silver bullet that would take down the Clintons in time for the 1996 election.
If I believed in fate I’d be very curious why I picked the name Silver Jews.
‘Silver Linings’ has proved a golden opportunity for me.
I have always believed it is not enough just to wear the silver fern and I do not regret pushing myself to try to deliver my best possible performance.
It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.
Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn’t like to have enemies around him.
My own novel, ‘The Silver Bough,’ about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland’s mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as ‘fantasy for people who don’t read fantasy.’
It’s an honor to bring back a silver to the United States.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called ‘Silver Snaffles’ that my mother gave away.
I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, and my wedding was not on the cover of a magazine.
Silver Jews was always a coolection of old friends. Uncoolection.
I’ve always been interested in public health approaches because it seems to me we have this yearning for silver bullets, and that is not in fact how change comes about. Change comes through silver buckshot – a lot of little things that achieve results. That’s a classic public health approach.
