Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Thatcher

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

Margaret Thatcher

What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.

Margaret Thatcher

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Joseph Joubert

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

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?

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

Jan Hammer

There was this curtain, the Iron Curtain, and it was keeping out interesting, cutting-edge music. But other than that, it was pretty normal.

Dusty Baker

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

Andre Agassi

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

You've got to think of the value of the iron ore business.

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

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

Friedrich Schiller

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

Friedrich Schiller

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

James Franco

I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

Henry Rollins

I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.

Eric Idle

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Lu Xun

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

Lonnie Donegan

I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.

Robert Newman

The irony is in many places the railroads are laying track where they removed it over the past two decades.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

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.

Francois Rabelais

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

Harry Houdini

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

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.

Jacques Derrida

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Isaac Disraeli

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the 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.

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.

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.

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.