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.

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.

Chris Powell

If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.

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.

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.

Jay Leno

The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started.

Jean Rostand

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Howie Mandel

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

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.