Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Zawinski

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

Bruce Dickinson

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

Ann Voskamp

Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.

Mignon McLaughlin

There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

Michael Buckley

How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.

Hippocrates

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

Ezra Cornell

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

Flann O'Brien

The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

Carla Bley

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

Rita Ora

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Taslima Nasrin

I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.

Paula Danziger

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next

Francis Bacon

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

Frances Mayes

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

George Strait

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

Jerry Springer

I'm in shape, but only if you consider a circle a shape.

Ingmar Bergman

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

Albert Einstein

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

Robert Altman

I like audiences to crane their necks.

Jamaica Kincaid

I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.

Robert Jordan

Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.

Larry Flynt

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.