Metals Quotes - Page 5

• I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

  Frances McDormand

  Rocks, Classic, Hard Rock

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• This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

  Samuel Smiles

  Science, Civilization, Iron

  Samuel Smiles (2010). “Men of Invention and Industry”, p.87, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.

  William Faulkner

  Memorable, Airports, Perfection

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• In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass.

  Brendan Fraser

  Glasses, Crash, Behinds

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• You can imagine what the advisers are telling Junior Assad: "Your statues are much stronger than Saddam's. His were hollow, and bolted in place with inferior metal; yours are solid, and are anchored to a depth of three feet. Let the American tanks come! Their gears will strip and their engines whine in defeat as they attempt to pull down your statues!

  James Lileks

  Feet, Stronger, Tanks

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• That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.

  Ian Christe

  Powerful, Roots, Fans

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• A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

  Francis Bacon

  Kings, Knowledge, Thinking

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.590

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• It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing the plain fact: that gold, that scarce and valuable market-produced metal, has always been, and will continue to be, by far the best money for human society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Champion, Gold, Facts

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• The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.

  Dennis Holme Robertson

  Yellow, Gold, Savages

  Sir Dennis Holme Robertson (1929). “Money”

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• Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Men, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.

  Ian Gillan

  Want, Rock N Roll, Heavy Metal

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

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• An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

  Alain de Lille

  Writing, Animal, Men

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• An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

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• Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

  Moliere

  Sweet, Money, War

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.80, Penguin

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• There are three virtuous styles of music; classical, jazz and heavy metal. I do love classical music but I don't listen to it much anymore and I never listen to metal, so I am not very interested in music that is difficult to play.

  Gregor Schwellenbach

  Style, Jazz, Heavy Metal

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Powerful, Political, Crucible

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Blessing, Men, Rocks

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks

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• Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Heart, Makeup, Men

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.2783, Penguin

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• I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.

  Graham Greene

  Pain, Love You, Kissing

  Graham Greene (2010). “The End Of The Affair”, p.98, Random House

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• A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

  Layne Staley

  New York, Speed, Pops

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• If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?

  Sharon Shinn

  Makeup, Grieving, Grace

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• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  Pablo Neruda

  Goodbye, Ocean, Destiny

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river. Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones.

  Pablo Neruda

  Pain, Struggle, Fall

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Spring, Eye

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.480, Penguin

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• I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.

  Daphne Guinness

  Beautiful, Thinking, Color

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