Metals Quotes - Page 23

• As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Rare Beauty, Crowns

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3047, Delphi Classics

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• How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain of nothingness. My fear was of the weather, the atmosphere, the very air. What good did safety tips do me now? 'Avoid water, metal objects, rooftops; stay off the telephone in a storm, don't think glass can protect you; even if a storm was 8 miles away, you're still not safe from a strike. Avoid life perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip, stay away from it all.

  Alice Hoffman

  Pain, Fear, Thinking

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• I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's not a natural thing to be up in the sky in a little metal tube.

  Hope Davis

  Moving, Hands, Sky

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• My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

  James Durbin

  Rocks, Idols, Half

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• Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts are free, one thing you do not think about: the whole. Beasts have a mind; respect it. Flowers too- look at one. Nature brought forth each petal. There is a mystery that sleeps in metal. Everything feels, and has power over you.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Flower, Sleep, Men

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• I like metal because it's complicated, technical, brutal and I like the challenge.

  Jake Pitts

  Challenges, Complicated, Brutal

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• No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

  Chuck Eddy

  Hair Metal, Radio, Albums

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• What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', right? Anybody knows that! But do you know how the British spell it? 'Aluminium', pronounced 'Al-yoo-MIH-nee-um'. Ever hear anything so ridiculous? The French and Germans spell it 'aluminium', too, but they're foreigners who don't speak Earth-standard. You'd think the British, however, using our language, would be more careful

  Isaac Asimov

  Nice, Airplane, Thinking

  Isaac Asimov (1975). “Of matters great and small”

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• Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Science, Pockets

  The Devil's Dictionary

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• I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Want, Normal

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• I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Black, Found

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

  William Shakespeare

  Envy, Half, Bears

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1257, Oxford University Press

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• I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.

  Georges Braque

  Mean, Discovery, Substance

  "Cahiers d'Art" by Dora Vallier, p. 76, 1954.

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• Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great metal plates to their destination. People complain about their crappy lives working in an air conditioned work place, imagine having this as your only option in life.

  G.M.B. Akash

  Air, Hands, People

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• LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Blue, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2446, Delphi Classics

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• I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.

  George Clarke

  Black, Kind, My Favorite

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought was really beautifully written, it doesn't really need a movie because it is a movie. So I think you need a unique game - you either need an incredibly talented writer and director to come in and put together an amazing vision, or you need a game like Metal Gear, which is very cinematic, has a huge amount of history behind it, but whose cinematic experience is very different from what you'd get in a theater.

  David Hayter

  Unique, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I have little space from the suffering of elephants right now. I wake up with it and go to sleep with it. The plight of animals in shelters, of kids used for labor for the metals in our electronics and endless other things, the fate of our water supply to dye our blue jeans and water our lawns, the sad painful life of conventionally raised meat...For me, I am working to not contribute to this. I really don't want to hurt others for my benefit.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Hurt, Sleep, Kids

  "Interview with True Blood Star, Kristin Bauer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Book, Paper, Stones

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever to come out of a guitar. The songs are really free form and experimental and have a heavy dub influence.

  Marcel Dzama

  Song, School, Guitar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can see it in people's faces, when they're into a metal band. It's cool to see that being passed on.

  Chris Reifert

  People, Band, Faces

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Let's pass more gun control laws and buy metal detectors for every public school in the land - anything but tell kids that life is sacred, because its Creator deems it so.

  Don Feder

  Education, School, Kids

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• Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes.

  Rob Halford

  Dumb, Musician, Sometimes

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• I started getting seriously into music when I was a kid. 1978 was my big year. It just hit home. That was before real metal. There was Black Sabbath and that kind of stuff, but the real underground, hard stuff wasn't even around yet. It was cool to watch that happen and latch onto the next edge of things every time that progression happened.

  Chris Reifert

  Real, Kids, Home

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• And the other thing for the sort of posher kids was a sort of lethal scooter, you know. One of the things that you just push along with your - really heavy, lethal, you know, trap your fingers in and every bit of metal got rusty very quickly. And the girls I seem to remember they had a thing like a broomstick with a horse's head on the top which they sat astride.

  Nick Lowe

  Girl, Horse, Kids

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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