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Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage. -- Bruce Dickinson
We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique. -- Adrian Smith
I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison. -- Cameron Diaz
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people. -- Bruce Dickinson
Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden. -- Eddie Trunk
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit. -- Bruce Dickinson
I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close. -- Bruce Dickinson
A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded. -- Bruce Dickinson
I was a huge 'Pyromania' fan. You would never expect it, but I was in love with Iron Maiden; I was such a huge fan. I went to a lot of rock stuff like Van Halen, too. -- Tiesto
Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well. -- Bruce Dickinson
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music. -- Scott Putesky
I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices. -- Dhani Harrison
The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that. -- Adrian Smith
I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record. -- Phil Anselmo
He looked like a Yanni fan at an Iron Maiden Concert. -- Kelley Armstrong
Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'? -- Eugene Field
Hasten Little Maiden...stop and listenfor pearls of wisdomstop and listen as the river glistens... -- Muse
When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands. -- David Pajo
Little Maiden Encounters FearDeepest regions walked she therelittle maiden sweet and fairventured far from the pathnever a whispernever a laugh... -- Muse
Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Come o'er the sea,Maiden with me,Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows;Seasons may roll,But the true soulBurns the same, where'er it goes." -- Thomas Moore
Come o'er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes. -- Thomas Moore
We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want. -- Bruce Dickinson
I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!) -- Mat McNerney
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth. -- Naomi Wolf
When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off -- Bruce Dickinson
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition. -- Tiffanie DeBartolo
Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin. -- Hildegard of Bingen
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music. -- Scott Putesky
I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks. This meant that it was no great loss for me to drop the metal music altogether. -- Varg Vikernes
I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses. -- Eli Roth
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. -- T. S. Eliot
I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage. -- George Duke
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought. -- Thomas Moore
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name. -- Paula Poundstone
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. -- D. H. Lawrence
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. -- Mason Cooley
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. -- John Henrik Clarke
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France. -- Joan of Arc
It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily. -- Alexander Henry
A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I have always loved a hard-faced girl. I get that Alison Goldfrapp isn't easy, and I like her belligerence. She's deeply sexy and controlled, like a Strict Machine, and it seems to wind the b'jesus out of the women I know. On the outside, I watch and smile and will her on like a twisted silent maiden aunt in the dark corner. -- Alison Moyet
In maiden meditation, fancy free. -- William Shakespeare
A maiden hath no tongue--but thought. -- William Shakespeare
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion. -- Walter Scott
A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold. -- Jean Paul
I was named after my mother's maiden name. -- Sprague Grayden
Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. -- Chuck Jones
A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's. -- Henry David Thoreau
The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. -- Francis Bacon
I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land! -- Rudyard Kipling
The bride, the white bride today a maiden, tomorrow a wife. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian. -- Clarence Day
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver. -- Alfred Austin
Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married. -- Joseph Howe
The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden. -- Roger Zelazny
Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is. -- Ella Leya
A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.... -- Hilda Doolittle
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. -- Charles Hazlewood
The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers. -- David Lloyd George
This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Many a maiden, With white feet dancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom. -- Euripides
To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally. -- Rick Riordan
Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment. -- Peter Paul Rubens
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such. -- Tertullian
The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone. -- Hafez
Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn't know me. -- Nelson DeMille
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked. -- Umberto Eco
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon. -- Charles Lamb
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Life is short, so fall in love, dear maiden, before your youthful ardor cools off, for there is no tomorrow. -- Atsushi
Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog. -- Penn Jillette
'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog. -- Penn Jillette
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad. -- A. E. Housman
The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought. -- Sheri S. Tepper
For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event." ... "Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden -- Karen Hawkins
Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure. -- Mercedes Lackey
Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews! -- Coventry Patmore
What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival. -- Arthur Desmond
At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame. -- William C. Bryant
A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy. -- Gelett Burgess
For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea. -- Empedocles
I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore! -- George Arnold
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility. -- Charmian Clift
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa. -- James M. Barrie
But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away. -- Mary Mapes Dodge
I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time. --Percy Jackson -- Rick Riordan
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies). -- Gloria Steinem
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself. -- William Shakespeare
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyAnd the affrighted steed ran on alone,Do not weep.War is kind. -- Stephen Crane
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done. -- Thomas Hardy
My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker. -- Alice Walker
I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden. -- Ibn Arabi
I saw Gabriel, like a maiden, or like the moon amongst the stars. His hair was like a woman's, falling in long tresses...He is the most beautiful of Angels... -- Ruzbihan Baqli
This is my maiden voyage. My first speech since I was the president of the United States and I couldn't think of a better place to give it than Calgary, Canada. -- George W. Bush
Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown. -- Tony Benn
He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after. -- Kate DiCamillo
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties. -- Donna Tartt
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle. -- Honore de Balzac
Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"Her broad homely face turned red. "Yes.""Oh, good," Jaime said. "I only rescue maidens. -- George R. R. Martin
Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near. -- Lewis Carroll
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth. -- John Barth
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess. -- Paula Poundstone
So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls. -- Catullus
O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won. -- Torquato Tasso
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me! -- Walter Scott
I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals. -- Delia Sherman
Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn't have one, she'd be mad. -- Rick Riordan
Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow. -- Walter Scott
Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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