Heavy Quotes - Page 24

• The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

  Kirk Hammett

  Evil, Sound, Horror

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• I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

  Ben Harper

  Boys, California, Kind

  "Give Till It’s Gone: A Conversation with Ben Harper". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Guy, Training, Navy

  "Liam Hemsworth & Josh Hutcherson Talk Gale & Peeta in ‘The Hunger Games’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Why would heavy metal ever go away?

  Scott Ian

  Going Away, Heavy Metal, Metals

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• I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

  Vanilla Ice

  Shining, Black, Stuff

  "Is this it?". Interview with Alex Rayner, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2007.

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• I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

  Rashida Jones

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

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• There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

  Milan Kundera

  Pain, Compassion, Imagination

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• There's no way around it, drama is very difficult to shoot. It's very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.

  Denis Leary

  Drama, Way, Difficult

  "Q&A with 'Rescue Me' writer-actor Denis Leary". Interview with Stuart Levine, variety.com. September 7, 2011.

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• You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

  Audre Lorde

  Fighting, Blow, Eggs

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

  Josie Maran

  Husband, Partners, Life Partner

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• Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

  Franz Marc

  Spiritual, Blue, Two

  Susanna Partsch, Franz Marc (2001). “Marc”, p.26, Taschen

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• I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorite artists. My favorite song is 'Red House,' because it's heavy on the blues.

  Marisa Miller

  Song, Artist, Rocks

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• I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to go back to Kansas. It was just bizarre. There's a lot of very, very heavy set people who believe in whatever they were told, because they didn't seem to get out very much or be interested in leaving where they were. They just didn't seem that curious, and I find that a little hard to deal with.

  Dylan Moran

  Believe, Kansas, People

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• Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

  Haruki Murakami

  Doors, Rooms, Sides

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

  Dave Mustaine

  Guitar, Influence, Wave

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• Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.

  Mike Myers

  Growing Up, Father, Listening

  "Mike Myers shares his "Love Guru" wisdom and his love for Justin Timberlake". Interview with Larry Carrol, www.mtv.com. April 9, 2008.

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• My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

  Nas

  Strong, Memories, Rap

  "Nas, Damian Marley Dig For Rap's African Roots". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 13, 2009.

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• I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.

  Liam Neeson

  Boxing, Shadow, Bags

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• We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

  John Newton

  Life, Attitude, Past

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• I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Country, Golfers, Bottom

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• I don’t get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

  Robert De Niro

  Strength, Character, Long

  "Robert De Niro: In Conversation". Interview with A. O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. November 13, 2012.

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• Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Growing Up, School, Fire

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• For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

  Apolo Ohno

  Art, Car, Rolling

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• MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Impact, Mtv, Albums

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• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Class, Ordinary

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