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Quotes About Metal

With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though.
~ Tarja Turunen
I think that the fact of the matter is that metal isn't really part of the big picture of the gay, lesbian, transgender music scene. But it's certainly there. There's gay metalheads all over the world.
~ Rob Halford
I had phases of listening to rap and trap, and then I had phases where I'd listen to post-hardcore, rap, grunge, metal... all that. I had different time periods of listening to different music. And now it all clashes together.
~ Juice Wrld
She tries to think, but the monotonous stuttering of the wheels breaks the flow of her thoughts, and the narcotic cowl of sleep tightens over her throbbing forehead—that muffled and yet overpowering railroad-sleep in which one lies rapt and benumbed as though in a shuddering black coal sack made of metal.
~ Stefan Zweig
Es el asombro eterno que en cada rincón de la Tierra, siente todo hijo de la naturaleza ante los hijos de la cultura, para quienes un puñado de metal amarillo tiene más valía que todos los logros técnicos y espirituales.
~ Stefan Zweig
Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?
~ James Russell Lowell
For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?
~ Ayn Rand, Anthem
Eight solid light-years of lead...is the thickness of that metal in which you would need to encase yourself if you wanted to keep from being touched by neutrinos. I guess the little fuckers are everywhere.
~ Michael Chabon
Smith & Wesson 9mm—satin finished, stainless steel and loaded with eight rounds of XTPs.
~ Michael Connelly
We need to enter the castle, first," he said instead. As if the gates had heard him, the metal bars flared to a pale green and then their glow faded back to red and finally dulled into non-existence. The entrance was unbarred and their way apparently clear. "I like not that," growled Moonglum. "Too easy. A trap awaits us—are we to spring it at the pleasure of whoever dwells within the castle confines?
~ Michael Moorcock
And they took the strain and off they went up the field the plough cutting clean. I can mind how I stood there and watched him my heart full of pride for him and I breathed in the smell of the earth. Nothing like the smell of new turned earth. A cold metal smell it is, but clean and good like the first breath of life.
~ Michael Morpurgo
I've always been very respected as a female singer in metal, or in general as a female singer.
~ Tarja Turunen
For me, it is incredible to hear singers in the metal scene telling me I had been their inspiration.
~ Tarja Turunen
Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
~ Bill Bryson
In a similar study at the University of Arizona, researchers infected the metal door handle to an office building and found it took only about four hours for the "virus" to spread through the entire building, infecting over half of employees and turning up on virtually every shared device like photocopiers and coffee machines. In the real world, such infestations can stay active for up to three days.
~ Bill Bryson
Moms summarized. "So we have someone who was Spetsnaz, who was exposed to radiation and should have died but didn't, has had organ replacement and skin grafts at a level our science can't do, and armed with a weapon with metal we can't place." "Great," Nada muttered. "And he flies," Roland said. "Yo
~ Bob Mayer
Still the strange ships glittered and shone, and this led to some discussion as to what they might be made of. The Admiral thought perhaps iron or steel. (Metal ships indeed! The French are, as I have often supposed, a very whimsical nation.)
~ Susanna Clarke
steel is strong because it knew the hammer and white heat
~ June Carter Cash
Konrad had been right to say barriers were made of metal that could turn fluid when touched simultaneously by people on either side.
~ Kamila Shamsie
I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Metal. In some ways, that was the true mark of mankind. Man tamed the stones, the bones of the earth below. Man tamed the fire, that ephemeral, consuming soul of life. And combining the two, he drew forth the marrow of the rocks themselves, then made molten tools.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Aluminum," she explained as Rysn peered inside. "It blocks spanreed communication, something we only recently discovered.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Twelve times did the iron register of time beat on the sonorous bell-metal, summoning the ghosts to rise, and walk their nightly round. - In plainer language, it was twelve o'clock...
~ Henry Fielding
I'm very excited that my yelling will be featured on the next Evile disc; they're one of my favorite new-ish bands and, in my not-so-humble opinion, the British saviors of thrash metal.
~ Brian Posehn