Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Marley

I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion

Bertrand Russell

Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

Catherynne M. Valente

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Turn off your iron and save the city.

The irony was not lost on me, and it better not be lost on LSU.

Once they iron out all the wrinkles and get it all synergized, we'll have better focus.

In a weird way, this tragedy will make it a magnet for opportunity seekers. It's the irony of tragedies.

Is there some irony here? Probably. But sometimes in order to enact real reform, interesting alliances have to be made.

P. J. O'Rourke

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

Dalai Lama

Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.

Ike Barinholtz

Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.

Jack London

But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.

We knew 3-point shooting was their game. There's a lot of irony in it in that we go on the same philosophy.

Jesse Eisenberg

[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.

Jenny Eclair

I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

It's ironic two things are going on at the same time. There's a real predisposition in FM radio to entertaining new talk formats, just as they're losing their major talk talent.

Joe Moore

It's ironic to me that this is being contemplated at the same time the 65 percent rule is being discussed. If you're trying to put more money into classrooms, why would you put more money into overhead and administrative costs?

Andre Agassi

It's quite ironic that it turned out that way,

It's an ironic time to be having a party in Detroit.

Dusty Baker

It's a possibility. We'll iron it out this week.

It's sort of ironic that it's in Indianapolis ? a little place that we had a little success.

It's like a shirt when it's all wrinkled up. You press it with an iron and it comes out looking better.

Georgette Heyer

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

Franz Grillparzer

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

Jeaniene Frost

Brush teeth. Wash hair. Rule undead world with an iron fist.

Jeaniene Frost

It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.

Hippocrates

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

Ezra Cornell

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

Hale Irwin

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

Mark Gottfried

He's the man of steel, no question. He's our version of Lou Gehrig. He's the iron man; he never comes out.

Geoffrey Chaucer

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?