Iron Quotes - Page 29

• ... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

  Margaret Deland

  Fall, Dust, Gold

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.310, Wildside Press LLC

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• Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Long, Feelings, Way

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• War is honorable
  In those who do their native rights maintain;
  In those whose swords an iron barrier are
  Between the lawless spoiler and the weak;
  But is, in those who draw th' offensive blade
  For added power or gain, sordid and despicable
  As meanest office of the worldly churl.

  Joanna Baillie

  War, Rights, Office

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.173

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• Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

  James F. Cooper

  Death, Night, Solitude

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• No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.

  Mari Evans

  Father, Touching, Entity

  Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

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• A copious manner of expression gives strength and weight to our ideas, which frequently make impression upon the mind, as iron does upon solid bodies, rather by repeated strokes than a single blow.

  William Melmoth

  Blow, Ideas, Expression

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• The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.

  Dara Horn

  Running, Bridges, Support

  Dara Horn (2006). “The World to Come: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

  Janice Mirikitani

  Confidence, Healing, Butterfly

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• Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

  Ernest Cline

  Python, Eagles, People

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

  Isocrates

  Teaching, Cutting, Able

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• Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were not as engaging to my heart as a frozen icicled craggy way angered over by strong winds that never take the iron trumpets from their lips.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Strong, Spring, Heart

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• A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Blow

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.

  Courteney Cox

  Use, Brushes, Picks

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• I have kind of an iron stomach.

  Joey Fatone

  Kind, Stomach

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Teeth

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Suffering, Arches

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• Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.

  Adam Pally

  Men, Next Day, Black

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And if I was going to go there – the only person you can really compare Batman to, of those characters, would be Iron Man, another rich guy who has the ability to make fantastic toys – so if you want to take Batman and Iron Man and put them in a battle, that’s an interesting battle. But if you want to take Christian Bale and Robert Downey Jr. and put them in a UFC fighting cage, Christian Bale will – to quote Full Metal Jacket – tear Robert Downey Jr.’s head off and sh-t down his neck.

  Matthew Modine

  Christian, Character, Fighting

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• My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on the other end of the spectrum. There's absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. I'm having so much fun playing this egotistical, '80s-era rockstar - everything he does is from the point-of-view of a rockstar.

  Steve Valentine

  Fun, Character, Views

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• If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains.

  LL Cool J

  Judging, Gold, Forget

  "Accidental Racist". Song by Brad Paisley, LL Cool J and Lee Thomas Miller, 2013.

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• I wanna begin saying a story about my son. I have a four-year old son who loves superheroes from Spider-Man to Iron Man to Batman. He's got all the costumes. One day he looks at me and says 'Dad, I want to be light-skinned so I could be Spider-Man. Spider-Man has light skin.' That was sort of a shock. This is why I am excited to be a part of the Marvel Universe, so I could be hopefully provide that diversity in the role of the superhero.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Dad, Son, Men

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• Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Fire, Boston, Order

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.

  Anastas Mikoyan

  Discipline, Majority, Minorities

  "The Soviet Colossus : History and Aftermath" by Michael Kort, (p. 172), 2001.

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• Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.

  Karl Friedrich Schinkel

  Artist, Collaboration, Materialistic

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• it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Winter, Armor, Afternoon

  Ardyth Kennelly (1949). “The Peaceable Kingdom”

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