#meta

I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on callused palms. In the forest, as if sensing my plight, wolves howled nocturnal laments. The magnificent lunar lullabies of my lupine brethren wooed me into a deep and cleansing sleep. ↗

— Mark Rice

#heavy-metal #mark-rice #metallic-dreams #punishment #sleep

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#the-silver-metal-lover #young-adult #age

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#better #better off #brick #going #guitar

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic. ↗

— William Drummond

#i #metaphysic #more #myself #other

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal. ↗

— James Durbin

#american #american idol #cool #everybody #favorite

My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#goal #korea #record #set #timetable

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#attention spans #days #doses #get #me

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. ↗

— Peter Hammill

#had #i #interest #lives #metaphor

I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided. ↗

— Ray Harryhausen

#character #could #disc #flying #guided

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive. ↗

— James Hetfield

#metallica #powerful #something #will