Metallic Silver

Famous quotes containing the words metallic and/or silver:

    “The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.”
    —Vance Palmer (1885–1959)

    “Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or
    the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the
    cistern.
    Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit
    shall return unto God who gave it.
    Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. XII, 6–7)