Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Jenkins

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

Laura Osnes

I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.

Laura Schlessinger

I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

Natalie Gulbis

I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

Sxip Shirey

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

Tony Robbins

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.

Tony Abbott

What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.

Ho Chi Minh

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

Heinrich Heine

You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.

Henry Ward Beecher

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

Henry James

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

Joe Wright

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

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.

Julian Barnes

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Joseph Chamberlain

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

Swami Vivekananda

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

Rona Barrett

Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.

Rona Barrett

I'm really a pussycat - with an iron tail.

Rob Corddry

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

St. Vincent

I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

Thomas Carlyle

The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I find it so ironic that all you do, for the earliest part of your life, is try to be like everybody else. And then you turn 30, and you realize all you want to do is distinguish yourself in some way.

Ronnie Wood

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

Rod Serling

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

Rod Serling

This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

Samuel Johnson

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

Robert Jordan

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

Wally Lamb

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

Suzanne Collins

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

Sophocles

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.