Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Wolfowitz

He's always been excruciatingly careful, which is ironic in his situation.

Rob Corddry

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

Raymond Chandler

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

Ronnie Wood

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

The irony was not lost on me, and it better not be lost on LSU.

Friedrich Schiller

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

Lu Xun

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

Robert Newman

The irony is in many places the railroads are laying track where they removed it over the past two decades.

Eric Idle

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

James Franco

I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

Ellen Goodman

In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?

Once they iron out all the wrinkles and get it all synergized, we'll have better focus.

Andre Agassi

It's quite ironic that it turned out that way,

It's sort of ironic that it's in Indianapolis ? a little place that we had a little success.

It's ironic two things are going on at the same time. There's a real predisposition in FM radio to entertaining new talk formats, just as they're losing their major talk talent.

Joe Moore

It's ironic to me that this is being contemplated at the same time the 65 percent rule is being discussed. If you're trying to put more money into classrooms, why would you put more money into overhead and administrative costs?

It's like a shirt when it's all wrinkled up. You press it with an iron and it comes out looking better.

Dusty Baker

It's a possibility. We'll iron it out this week.

Joey Fatone

I have kind of an iron stomach.

Cassandra Clare

Will looking after her, sighed.not for her, he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, for me.... And he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.

Christopher Hitchens

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Joseph Joubert

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another....

P. G. Wodehouse

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

Ovid

The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

Masanobu Fukuoka

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

Neal A. Maxwell

We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

Natan Sharansky

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

Miuccia Prada

I like the irony in my work.

Joseph Stalin

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

Lily Allen

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

Lakshmi Mittal

We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.