Steel Quotes - Page 10

• Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as bold As it were rocked in Steel With Arms of Steel at either side— It joins—behind the Veil To what, could We presume The Bridge would cease to be To Our far, vacillating Feet A first Necessity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Bridges, Feet

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1189, Delphi Classics

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• Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but with steel in the velvet

  Karen Marie Moning

  Cat, Lovely, Velvet

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.757, Dell

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• I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Gentleman, Twists

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.128, GENERAL PRESS

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• Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.

  Florence King

  Animal, Humanness Is, Might

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.6, Macmillan

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• I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

  Charles Bukowski

  Song, White, Forever

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• He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.

  Alice Sebold

  Strong, Hurt, Grandma

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Use, Want, Spirit

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982”, p.33, Univ of California Press

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• V shook his head. “Remember what you saw in that clearing, cop? How’d you like that anywhere near a female you loved?” Butch put down the Bud without drinking from it. His eyes traveled over Rhage’s body. “We’re going to need a shitload of steel,” the human muttered.

  J.R. Ward

  Drinking, Eye, Saws

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.121, Penguin

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• She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Eye, Nerves

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Emily Dickinson: Everyman's Poetry”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress

  Janet Fitch

  Beautiful, Feet, Clothes

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• ...then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish... Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias.

  Robert Harling

  Character, Skinny, Magnolias

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• It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Queens, Flower, Healing

  "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

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• The human reached inside Wrath’s jacket and started pulling out weapons. Three throwing stars, a switchblade, a handgun, a length of chain. “Jesus Christ,” the cop muttered as he dropped the steel links on the ground with the rest of the load. “You got some ID? Or wasn’t there enough room in here for a wallet, considering you’re carrying about thirty pounds of concealed weapons?

  J.R. Ward

  Jesus, Stars, Wrath

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Dark Lover: Number 1 in series”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

  Richard Kadrey

  Ballet, World, Slippers

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, Book 1)”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel.

  Lauren Oliver

  Rain, Dark, Fighting

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• Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

  David Klass

  Mean, Doors, Grandfather

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.176, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

  George R. R. Martin

  Ivory, Skins, Porcelain

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2132, Bantam

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• Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Iron, Black

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.786, Bantam

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• The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.

  George R. R. Martin

  Horse, Kissing, White

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.320, Bantam

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• I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Sight, Feet

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• And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Army, Men, Sheep

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• The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

  Yukio Mishima

  Strong, Memories, Spring

  Yukio Mishima (1959). “The temple of the golden pavilion”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Mencheres dropped his hands from my shoulders. “You know that’s what he wants. He’ll want to trade, you for her.” “Then I’ll do it,” I said. Bones’s grip on me turned to steel. “No, you won’t.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hands, Want, Bones

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• You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Trials, Faces

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.227, e-artnow

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