Quotes about metallic (16 Quotes)

It's for someone looking for a more modern contemporary flavor. These colors balance a gray or metallic surface or substrate.

I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

Embalm, v. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus.

He took a Madame X silhouette and did something new with it, ... There were lots of pieces that can be worn by all sorts of women across this country. He showed a range of strengths a jersey gown with a touch of lace, that black metallic gown with texture and crunch. He can do a great bikini and do a great eyelet so that a full skirt doesn't look too immature.

Lying is not only excusable it is not only innocent it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image of woman. The more technical and mechanical, cold and metallic it becomes, the more it will need the kind of warmth that only the woman can give it. If we want to save the world, we must adapt to the woman, let ourselves be led by the woman, let ourselves be penetrated by the Ewigweiblich, the eternally feminine.

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.

The answer d) All of the above. That is, the four-piece band fronted by Afro'd auteur Claudio Sanchez is a progressive rock band that delivers a grandiose, multipart sci-fi storyline with metallic force and the keen emotionalism of heart-on-sleeve emo acts. The major-label debut by the California band is the third in a continuing saga about a dystopian future in which the parents must kill their children to stamp out a plague. (The curious can check out the Sanchez-scripted comic books, available at www. coheedandcambria. com.) If that's not dark enough for you, there's a snazzy guillotine on the CD sleeve and song titles that include Ten Speed (Of God's Blood and Burial). ... Once Upon Your Dead Body.

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

Your voice is very metallic this morning, Hortense Robbins --
Almost like a guinea hen's!

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.

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.

The day's blow rang out, metallic -- or it was I, a bell awakened, and what I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew I can.

Towers oxidize quickly and go from a shiny metallic color to dull gray. It's hard to see the towers, and I bet no one can tell you how many towers there are between Exits 1 and 5. It looks bad to have a painted tower with fake tree limbs and it's much taller than the trees around it. I call that the 'Wal-Mart Special.