#meta

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

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cannot #creation #development #does #final

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#distorted #features #his #imaginative #man