Mercury Quotes

There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks. (Jonathan Maberry)
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. View quote
Gary Cherone
I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program. View quote
Linda M. Godwin
There's been a tsunami of media, and I've been riding it on a mercury surfboard. View quote
Charlie Sheen
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. View quote
Alexander Pope
Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury. View quote
Elvis Costello
I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulnerability to it, his technical ability was amazing, and so much of his personality would come out through his voice. I'm not even a guy to buy Queen records, really, and I still think he's one of the best. View quote
Chris Cornell
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. View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury. View quote
John Deacon
My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury. View quote
Brandi Carlile
How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams? (Dan Burton)
One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath. View quote
Daphne Zuniga
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? View quote
Evangelista Torricelli
This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects. View quote
George Ripley
The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles. View quote
Jack Antonoff
Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. View quote
Tom Allen
President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office. View quote
Tom Allen
The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities. View quote
Tom Allen
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather. View quote
David Hare (dramatist)
Mercury on its axis turns like the Moon: One side has lasting day, the other night; One side in everlasting fire doth swoon; While th'other hides forever from the light. View quote
Giovanni Schiaparelli
Now that we've lost Alan Shepard, I can't help feeling that something is wrong with this picture; astronauts aren't supposed to grow old and leave this Earth forever. In our memories, they remain as Shepard was on that sunny Friday morning in May 1961, when he lay inside a tiny Mercury capsule ready to be hurled into space atop a Redstone booster. (Alan Shepard)
He wanted to make a mirror. Glass, mercury and a wooden frame- the perfect mirror. But he was no good at it. So he went to the people he knew and asked them for a mirror. All they could give him were bits of old mirror. He took these home, stuck them on a board and hung it up. It's a mirror. View quote
Michael Rosen
Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims. View quote
Tacitus
To me a heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on 9 different floors and one house would be fitted up with special copies of the Dial printed on soft tissue and kept in the toilets on every floor and in the other house we would use the American Mercury and the New Republic. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
She said "I'm young enough I'm old enough In the city machine Where industries Fill the fish full of mercury" View quote
Laura Nyro