Mercury Quotes

I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

I dreamed that I was being raped by Freddy Mercury.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

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?

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

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?

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.

Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

I was really intrigued by them, became fascinated by them because they were asking questions that couldn't be answered almost, or were making statements that you couldn't quite understand. Like, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.' That took me through a whole stratosphere of possibilities, and doing a little research and discovered that the M is mercury.

If you loved music, you loved Freddie Mercury.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

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.

Freddie Mercury taught me 3 thingsdon't take anything too seriously, have fun and always fly first class.

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.

Paris Hilton is one of the hosts for Nicole Richie’s baby shower, and they’re serving sushi. Awesome, Paris—sushi, the one thing pregnant women are forbidden to eat. Thanks for the mercury.

I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.

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.

Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury

There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.

You are my mate, Ria. In my soul. You are my mate. ~ Mercury

It’s been a tsunami of media and I’ve been riding it on a mercury surfboard.

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response

I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we’re not here.” Lawe tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. “Stay real quiet. Don’t make eye contact.” They all nodded.

Yes. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities

I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.

I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.

My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

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.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.