Steel Quotes - Page 22

• Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.

  Willie Stargell

  Real, Cities, Long

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• Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

  Arthur Erickson

  Meaningful, Glasses, Space

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• Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past, and I quickly looked again. This boat appeared to be manned by four skeletons. Their cheek bones stood out like knots, their ribs were clearly defined as if they were painted on. Every leg and arm muscle showed as taut as steel cabling. Four pairs of deep-set eyes peered at us, conveying 'the look.' The four men who were rowing that shell were a special breed of oarsmen known as 'lightweights'.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Eye, Past, Men

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• The wounded surgeon plies the steel
  That questions the distempered part;
  Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
  The sharp compassion of the healer's art
  Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Compassion, Hands

  'Four Quartets' 'East Coker' (1940) pt. 4

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• There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Feet, Black

  1973 Television interview, 2 1Nov. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

  Aldous Huxley

  Food, Wine, Knives

  "The collected works of Aldous Huxley".

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• While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.

  Howard Zinn

  Men, Class, Rags

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.254, Routledge

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• To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Fire, Sight, House

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct." He opened his knife drawer. "It goes here," he said, "until you return."(That's how you leave: by never saying good-bye.)And I learned that: to return. I came back the following year and the year after that. I hope to return every year (after all, I may never have the chance to learn so much), until I have no one to return to. (301)

  Bill Buford

  Years, Knives, Bye

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• World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.

  Tanith Lee

  Horse, Night, Fire

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• Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them.

  Anthony Crosland

  Running, Jobs, Democracy

  Speech in Rotherham, June 9, 1973.

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• Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Patience, Stubborn, Arms

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.122

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• The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!

  Keith Richards

  Home, Fighting, Knives

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.241, Hachette UK

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• But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Stronger, Bars, Consciousness

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

  Fred Barnes

  Strong, People, Decision

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• I don't think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.

  Etty Hillesum

  Eye, Thinking, Suffering

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.545, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

  Marie Osmond

  Iron, Heat, Lord

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• I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Believe, Fire, Towers

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• The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

  Pierre Berton

  Artist, Creative, Together

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• Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core.

  Jamie McKelvie

  Men, Looks, Rotten

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• Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
  With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
  Steel-true and blade-straight,
  The great artificer made my mate.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Poetry, Gold

  'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'My Wife'

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• They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.

  William Howard Russell

  Red Lipstick, Lines, Red

  On the Russians charging the British, in 'The British Expedition to the Crimea' (1877) p. 156. Russell's original dispatch to The Times, 25 October 1854, printed 14 November 1854 read: 'That thin red streak tipped with a line of steel'

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• You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Mother, Children

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• Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be solidly in the Yankees' corner... The efficiently triumphant Yankee maching is a great institution, but, as they say, who can fall in love with U.S. Steel?

  Gay Talese

  Girl, Baseball, Brother

  "The Yankees’ Field Of Screams" By Thomas B. Edsall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2009.

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• The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it's plunged back into the molten fire. The fire gives it power and flexibility, and the blows give it STRENGTH. Those two thing make the metal pliable and able to withstand every battle it's called upon to fight.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Blow, Fire

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.87, Macmillan

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