#meta

2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically. ↗

— LaToya London

#getting #house #i #mean #metaphorically

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#going #keep #know #long #make

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#man #metal #mind #native #presence

At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#america #candidate #country #declare #deserves

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity. ↗

— Maimonides

#begins #complete #confused #fall #however

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ↗

— Maimonides

#branches #consequently #first #human #lastly

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. ↗

— Paul de Man

#metaphors #more #much #tenacious #than

I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#honest #i #sick #sort #timetable

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air. ↗

— Kenneth Miller

#air #communicate #means #metal #piano

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers. ↗

— Lars Ulrich

#anybody #james #listen #look #me