Quotes About Metallic

I'm, if possible, more convinced than ever that this is the most beautiful part of the world, but it's an almost metallic, two-dimensional beauty with no warmth or gentleness to trick or woo you into liking it. Its great bleak loveliness is just there, hard and sharp, forever and ever.

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

It was cool, his finger, being made of titanium, and he used it to stroke her, first on the outside, running it over her pubic hair until she began to moan, and then sliding it inside her.

Just then, the Tonists began throwing rocks at the trucks. One came in the chief's direction, and he caught it before it could hit him. It wasn't exactly a rock, though. First of all, it was metallic and had hard ridges. He's seen something like this before in history books. Think! What was it called? Oh right--a grenade! And in an instant there was nothing more for the chief to think about.

Aluminum is a metallic element—one of the principal constituents of the earth's crust. Only oxygen and silicon are more abundant. Aluminum does not occur naturally in its pure form, but only in a wide variety of compounds.

I would say there are three important things about graphene. It's two-dimensional, which is the best possible number for studying fundamental physics. The second thing is the quality of graphene, which stems from its extremely strong carbon-carbon bonds. And finally, the system is also metallic.

She laughed and the ringing bells in her laugh had a hard metallic sound.

She wore a black pantsuit with a white silk shirt that had an almost metallic sheen to it. He wondered whom she had already gone into mourning for; then he reminded himself that she was the type of woman who mourned damaged reputations and lost opportunities, not human beings.

Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, the silver too metallic. And yet the overall effect was haunting, inhumanly beautiful.

the only thing in nature that moved was the sun, terrible and metallic as it inched its way across that indifferent sky.

When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.

Not saving you from this storm, mutant," he said. "Saving you for your later fate, we are." His voice was weirdly inflected and metallic, like an automated answering machine. "Oh, good. Yoda captured us," Fang whispered.

I love tie dye, metallic, and anything that stands out in terms of fashion. If it is fun and unique, I am into it... especially if it has aliens on it!

Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

O, I have known metallic paradisesWhere cuckoos clucked to finchesAbove the deft catastrophes of drums.While titters hailed the groans of deathBeneath gyrating awnings I have seenThe incunabula of the divine grotesque.

Sometimes I find human nature to be real disappointing," Lula said. "I guess that's why God made metallic extensions and pink hair dye. Sometimes you gotta compensate.

My loneliness tasted like pennies.

destiny spelled out in a constellation of cheap chrome.

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

The sky was the colour of an unpolished euphonium, tuned to a dead key.

the world in silver and copper and iron." Simon crawled to the edge of the cage. "That doesn't make any sense. What are you going to eat? How are you going to breathe without plants to make oxygen?

then make a CHART of which ones are the squishiest and which ones go "CLANG OUCH GROWL" and then eat you.