Famous quotes containing the words german, black and/or metal:
“A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.”
—José Bergamín (18951983)
“Light thickens, and the crow
Makes wing to th rooky wood.
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
Whiles nights black agents to their preys do rouse.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilisation.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
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