Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Flavel

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

Lee Trevino

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

Karl Pilkington

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Juliet Marillier

Stronger than iron crueler than death sweeter than springtime it lives beyond breath

Elizabeth Gaskell

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

Katherine Dunn

Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

Joseph Conrad

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

Lynn Barber

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

Haruki Murakami

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

Gore Verbinski

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

John Dryden

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

Lonnie Donegan

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

Maya Angelou

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.

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.

Joseph Stalin

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

Lily Allen

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

Neal A. Maxwell

We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

Natan Sharansky

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

Miuccia Prada

I like the irony in my work.

Joey Fatone

I have kind of an iron stomach.

Oliver Herford

My wife has a whim of iron

Margaret Thatcher

I never hugged him, I bombed him.

Margaret Thatcher

I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.

Margaret Thatcher

There's no such thing as society.

Margaret Thatcher

I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

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.

Lakshmi Mittal

We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.