Iron Quotes - Page 15

• Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Men, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere. Money's okay, but what I really like is working.

  Stan Lee

  Success, Coffee, Character

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• Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.

  S. N. Goenka

  Freedom, Creating, Attachment

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• And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of God, yea, and tortureth them and bindeth them down, and yoketh them with a yoke of iron, and bringeth them down into captivity.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Angel, Church, Captivity

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• Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Children, Dark, Thinking

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• The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.

  William Henry Ogilvie

  Sweet, Horse, Feet

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• Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.

  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

  Morning, Horse, Memories

  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1967). “Madly in all directions”

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• A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Knowing, Play

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928”, Chatto & Windus

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• America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Real, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10167, Delphi Classics

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• The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat, its temperature would be rendered at least one thousand times greater than that of red-hot iron, and the globe on which we tread would in all probability be rendered equal in brightness to the sun itself.

  James Prescott Joule

  Science, Would Be, Earth

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• Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.

  Andrew Solomon

  Pain, Knowing, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Smile, Nice, Men

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• I think the way the greens are, you need to be very accurate with your irons. Whether there's wind or not, the most important thing out here is being able to control the distance of your irons and the direction. I've done that pretty well the last couple of days.

  Luke Donald

  Couple, Distance, Thinking

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• Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.

  Sven Birkerts

  Dream, Reading, Book

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.168, Macmillan

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• The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

  Daniel Mendelsohn

  Fall, White, Looks

  "The American Boy". www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Men, Needs, Weapons

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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Law, Essence, Capricious

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.183, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars. … The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Heart, Oxygen

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• When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung.

  Creed Bratton

  Teenager, Lungs

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• Almost every day, someone asks if I ever flat iron my hair. I say, 'No, because I'm afraid it wouldn't look good and wouldn't come back curly.'

  Carrot Top

  Hair, Looks, Flats

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• Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.

  Ike Barinholtz

  Rose, Fists, Sometimes

  "SXSW: Mindy Kaling Teaches Us 10 Things About Running a TV Show" by Ben Travers, www.indiewire.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Like the intense fire that transforms iron into steel, as we remain faithful during the fiery trial of our faith, we are spiritually refined and strengthened.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Fire, Faithful, Steel

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• There are two Venices I know about and one of them is a hotel in Vegas. The other is an L.A. beach where pretty girls walk their dogs while wearing as little as possible and mutant slabs of tanned, posthuman beef sip iced steroid lattes and pump iron until their pecs are the size of Volkswagens.

  Richard Kadrey

  Girl, Dog, Beach

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• By the time The Iron Sheik gets to the ring, it will be Wrestlemania 37!

  Bobby Heenan

  Rings, Wrestlemania

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• A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot is in the stirrup iron. In old times, the gaucho often rode with only the great toe of the bare foot in a metal ring.

  Luis Marden

  Hands, Feet, Ostriches

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