Metals Quotes - Page 9

• As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

  Christopher Lee

  Character, Trying, World

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• I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, People

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• Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, School, Metal Detectors

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• Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

  Robert Owen

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  Robert Owen (1837). “Essays on the Formation of the Human Character”, p.29

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• Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.

  Billy Corgan

  Tattoo, Hair Metal, Guy

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Children, Guitar

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Keys, Typewriters

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• It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.

  Josh Smith

  Feet, Pieces, Four

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

  Paul Ehrenfest

  Two, Atoms, Stones

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• I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Thinking, Keys, Differences

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a hollow, holey cylinder running from hilt to point in my machete. When I blow across the mouthpiece in the handle, I make music with my blade. When all the holes are covered, the sound is sad, as rough as rough can be and be called smooth. When all the holes are open, the sound pipes about, bringing to the eye flakes of sun on water, crushed metal. There are twenty holes. And since I've been playing music, I've been called all different kinds of fool - more times than Lobey, which is my name.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Running, Eye, Blow

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• Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Home, Cutting, Rocks

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• I love gaming, I'm actually more of a nerd than a metal head and if you see me at shows chances are I'm by our merch table playing league of legends on my laptop or playing super Nintendo or Playstation through an emulator. My Nintendo pretty much raised me.

  Mike Powell

  League, Nerd, Nintendo

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• There's a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he's a good conductor?

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Long

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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• I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.

  Eli Roth

  Gun, Iron, Rose

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gold, Doe, Radiance

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• Heavy Metal fans are buying Heavy Metal records, taking the records home, listening to the records and then blowing their heads off with shotguns? Where's the problem? That's an unemployment solution right there, folks! It's called natural selection.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Home, Humor

  Song: More Drugs, Album: No Cure For Cancer

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• In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

  Hugh Sidey

  Technology, World, May

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• I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of these couples a moistened disk. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.

  Alessandro Volta

  Couple, Zinc, Order

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• I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica.

  Girl Talk

  Gun, Rocks, Rose

  "Random Rules: Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2007.

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• Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.

  Richard Whately

  Use, Coins, Ethical

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.158

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• Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Oil, People, Age

  Anzia Yezierska (1985). “Hungry hearts and other stories”, Persea Books

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• When people hear our record, they're not going to be able to put us into the 'New Metal' category or the 'pop-punk' category or the 'aggressive emo' category. I think people will be able to take it for what it is.

  Bert McCracken

  Emo, Thinking, People

  "Rising star reserves right to mingle on kids' level - Bert McCracken appears with the Used at X-Fest". Interview with David Lindquist, The Indianapolis Star, August 6, 2004.

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• Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Wall, School, Light

  "State trouper". Interview with Lynsey Hanley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

  Eddie Trunk

  Black, Opinion, Heavy Metal

  "Eddie Trunk Slams The Grammy’s: 'They Just Have No Clue At All When It Comes To Rock And Heavy Metal'". Interview with Ben Smith, eddietrunk.com. January 27, 2014.

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