Metals Quotes
436 Metals quotes by 344 unique authors
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We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more…
— Seneca the Younger
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We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.
— Unknown Author
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The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the incandescent metal and…
— Thomas Merton
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The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
— Kenneth R. Miller
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When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish…
— Gautama Buddha
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These abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior. Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were said to have had simple…
— Don Berliner
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It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down,…
— Ally Condie
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It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan…
— Herbert Hoover
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More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if…
— Bill Hybels
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When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model…
— Margaret Mead
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Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
— Ernest K. Gann
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The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually…
— Paulo Coelho
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All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy metal band. I…
— Rob Halford
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Hey everybody, this is Rob Halford from Fight wishing you all a crazy heavy metal Christmas and an insane, wild manic New Year!
— Rob Halford
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In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth and everything on this planet is made up…
— John Trudell
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A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to…
— C.S. Lewis
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A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.
— Yasunari Kawabata
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I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery
— Henry Bessemer
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... I think the idea of crossing over is the ultimate expression of being ... Maybe it's time to play rock and roll on disco…
— Jeff Baxter
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Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable…
— Benito Mussolini
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Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,…
— John Maynard Keynes
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As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.
— Travis Kalanick
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Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with…
— Harper Lee
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A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled…
— Alexander Calder
Who Wrote These Metals Quotes
344 authors contributed a total of 436 Metals Quotes, led by these top contributors: