Quotes for All
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? Evangelista Torricelli
I’m a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan? Freddie Mercury
I haven’t felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we’re backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn’t affect me the way … Read more
Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison. Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
There are so many different people that I’ve emulated vocally. In the rock world – Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent. Fergie
Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals. Diogenes Laertius
I used to eat a lot of fish, but I’ve been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now. Dennis Quaid
He whipped the chair around and actually split one of the things in half with the impact, spilling the spray of blood that was reflective, like mercury. John bellowed, Anyone else want to donate blood to chair-ity? He ducked into the the door and bashed one monster right in the wig, screaming, There’s some dessert! … Read more
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. David Hare
I watched him, and I watched him die, and it was so painful for me, because I really loved Freddie Mercury, the way that he just truly went with his voice. Dave Mustaine