Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.]

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.

Lakshmi Mittal

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

Oliver Herford

My wife has a whim of iron

Margaret Thatcher

I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.

Margaret Thatcher

There's no such thing as society.

Margaret Thatcher

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

Margaret Thatcher

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

Philip Levine

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

Laura Osnes

I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.

Laura Schlessinger

I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.

Natalie Gulbis

I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

Joseph Conrad

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.