Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Grillparzer

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

Geoffrey Chaucer

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!

Chris Hedges

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.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Chris Powell

If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.

George Carlin

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

Frederick Douglass

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

Janet Fitch

I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent.

Cassandra Clare

Will looking after her, sighed.not for her, he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, for me.... And he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.

Christopher Hitchens

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Jenny Eclair

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

H. P. Lovecraft

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Joseph Joubert

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another....

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.

Jeanne Calment

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

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.

Sophia Amoruso

I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear.

Howard Schultz

It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.

Howard Dean

I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.

Ian Fleming

I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.