Quotes about iron
ironing-board boards stills
I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite. Jenny Eclair
iron use steel
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel. Lakshmi Mittal
ironic irony
Even things that are true can be proved. Oscar Wilde
iron medicine fire
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. Hippocrates
iron mind rust
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron Ezra Cornell
ironing-board kitchen boards
A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel. Erma Bombeck
iron numbers people
The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles. Flann O'Brien
iron gold rust
If gold rusts, what then can iron do? Geoffrey Chaucer
iron gold tin
I wol yow telle, as was me taught also, The foure spirites and the bodies sevene, By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene. The firste spirit quiksilver called is, The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis, Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon. The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon: Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe, Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe, Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin, And Venus coper, by my fader kin!
iron credit world
I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they're both right. First you get the new world state and endless diversions as you are disempowered. And then, as we are watching, credit dries up, and the cheap manufactured goods of the consumer society are no longer cheap. Then you get the iron fist of Oceania, of Orwell's 1984. Chris Hedges
iron climbing mind
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind. Franz Grillparzer
iron man version
He's the man of steel, no question. He's our version of Lou Gehrig. He's the iron man; he never comes out. Mark Gottfried
iron rose fists
Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose. Ike Barinholtz
iron long mad
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. Jack London
iron hair world
Brush teeth. Wash hair. Rule undead world with an iron fist. Jeaniene Frost
ironic captives captivated
It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.
irony lost found
Being lost is worth the being found. Neil Diamond
iron steel heat
The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel. Marie Osmond
iron history endurance
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Theodore Roosevelt
iron palestine seeing
I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose. Theodor Herzl
iron window chains
Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains. Maya Angelou
iron waiting clubs
Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron. Patricia Briggs
iron definitions break
Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow. Paula Fox
ironic want used
It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride. Lance Armstrong
iron wrinkles interesting
Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting. Lisa Scottoline
iron links three
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved. Mignon McLaughlin
iron soul tears
Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek. John Milton
ironic giants moments
How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again. Michael Buckley
ironic age shy
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy. Mason Cooley
iron-lady
I never hugged him, I bombed him. Margaret Thatcher
iron rust might
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.
iron-lady
There's no such thing as society.
ironic wish ministers
I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.