Iron Quotes - Page 34

• The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.

  Roger Angell

  Home, Feet, Two

  Roger Angell (2013). “Season Ticket”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Wine, Thinking, Age

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• An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

  John Henry Newman

  Teacher, Winter, Influence

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• I kind of like carbon taxes because we already know how to apply them. We already have apparatus in place. When we talk about these other solutions - like a billion tons of iron filings in the ocean or putting sunshades between us and the sun - they're huge. We have no idea if they will work. We have no idea what their nasty consequences might be. And it's unlikely we can do them anyway.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Ocean, Ideas, Might

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it.

  Martin Winterkorn

  Russia, Long, Groups

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• I saw that Donald Trump is selling his penthouse suite at the Trump Park Avenue building here in New York City for $21 million. When asked why he's selling it now, Trump said 'Hey, Americans seem to be buying everything else I'm selling, so why not strike while the iron's hot.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Cities, Hot

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• No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.

  Isaac Babel

  Heart, Periods, Humans

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• Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Powerful, Kindness, Doors

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2015

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• Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine. I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.

  Mr. Lee

  Games, Long, Giving

  "Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew dies at 91". www.bbc.com. March 23, 2015.

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• Joss Whedon and all the writers of 'Iron Man' and 'Thor' found a way to keep Coulson saying something that keeps you guessing. I'm really lucky because a lot of people play agents and don't get nearly as much fun stuff to do.

  Clark Gregg

  Fun, Men, Play

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• Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  Prime, Ministers, Convincing

  "Screen Shot" by Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. February 6, 2012.

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• This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Thinking, Dust

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.195, CUP Archive

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• The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Father, Ocean

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• I love motorcycles and riding bikes. Like a lot of riders, I look at a bike like it's an iron horse - a living thing that you have to build a relationship with - and that bike is my horse.

  Diego Sanchez

  Horse, Motorcycle, Riding

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• George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.

  Michael Hersch

  Fire, Brain, Might

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.

  Eli Roth

  Gun, Rose, Listening

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Rand Paul tried hard to upstage Donald Trump at the first debate, talking tough about his guns and his right not to register them. But with his pixie-ish perm, Paul does not impress me as the gunslinger type. Rand Paul is the RuPaul of politics. He would do better to defend his right to carry an unregistered blow-dryer and curling irons.

  Michael R. Burch

  Blow, Gun, Talking

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• Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions are old? All things appeared to contend there, as I have implied, with a certain rust of antiquity, such as forms on old armor and iron guns,--the rust of conventions and formalities. It is said that the metallic roofs of Montreal and Quebec keep sound and bright for forty years in some cases. But if the rust was not on the tinned roofs and spires, it was on the inhabitants and their institutions.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Gun, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.961, e-artnow

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• The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Men, Hypocrisy

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• If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Arrows, Want, Shields

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• Now you wear your skin like iron

  Townes Van Zandt

  Skins

  Song: Pancho and Lefty f Freddy Fender

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• If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, Struggle, Self

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.305, Best Books on

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• Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Chains, Silk

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• A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.

  Sam Snead

  Games, Apples, Firsts

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• The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

  Angela Carter

  Sheets, Deadline, Urgent

  "The stories of our lives" by Carmen Callil, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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