Metals Quotes - Page 14

• Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.

  Alessandro Volta

  Science, Differences, Different

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• The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Ease, Matter, Resistance

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.258

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• Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

  Adam Rich

  Meaningful, Rocks, People

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• The most important lesson that were supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)

  Brian Welch

  Jesus, Zero, Important

  Brian Welch (2010). “Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

  Ben Harper

  Inspiration, Rocks, Dixieland

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• All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

  John Lyly

  Men, Mold, Old Man

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• Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Player, Gamer

  Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.

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• Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence if you think about it. I wonder why the Russians gave their satellite that strange name. It’s just a poor little lump of metal, spinning around the Earth.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Thinking, Spinning Around

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.108, Random House

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• Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Children, Brain, Age

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• You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.

  Andrew Forrest

  Dream, Business, Bridges

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• Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Sound, Use

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• If Manliness had a soundtrack, the score would be metal.

  Maddox

  Would Be, Score, Soundtracks

  "The Alphabet Of Manliness". Book by Maddox, September 1, 2009.

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• I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Gold, Socialism

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120”, p.309, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

  Laura Kasischke

  Balls, Exotic, Hunger

  Laura Kasischke (2014). “White Bird in a Blizzard”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Trying, Alternatives, Band

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• Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting. Fabric shades are much softer.

  Emily Henderson

  Giving, Fabric, Shade

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• If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let’s go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].

  Bryan Singer

  Men, Giving, Want

  "X-men’s Bryan Singer Versus Avengers And Iron Man". Interview with James Hoare, www.scifinow.co.uk. May 20, 2014.

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• Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Art, Science, Europe

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• Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

  Ezra Pound

  Fire, White, Together

  Ezra Pound, Michael John King (1982). “Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound”, p.226, New Directions Publishing

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• In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, and Copper and part of the Silver spectrum. The chief result is that all the elements give the same kind of spectrum, the result for any metal being quite easy to guess from the results for the others. This shows that the insides of all the atoms are very much alike, and from these results it will be possible to find out something of what the insides are made up of.

  Henry Moseley

  Science, Iron, Giving

  "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915" by J. L. Heilbron, University of California Press, (p. 209), 1974.

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• If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.

  Adam Gollner

  Military, Cancer, Men

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• The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Peace, Guarantees That, Political

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• The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

  Donald Judd

  Attitude, Ideas, Tables

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Two, Bullshit, Categories

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• You are so much better than a STUPID piece of metal.

  Oliver Sykes

  Stupid, Pieces

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