Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Barnes

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Joseph Chamberlain

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

Lee Trevino

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

Karl Pilkington

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Juliet Marillier

Stronger than iron crueler than death sweeter than springtime it lives beyond breath

Elizabeth Gaskell

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

LL Cool J

If you don’t judge my gold chains, I’ll forget the iron chains,

Mao Zedong

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

John Flavel

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

Katherine Dunn

Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

John Gunther

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

John Galsworthy

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

Lynn Barber

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

Joe Wright

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

James Prescott Joule

The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat, its temperature would be rendered at least one thousand times greater than that of red-hot iron, and the globe on which we tread would in all probability be rendered equal in brightness to the sun itself.

Ho Chi Minh

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

Heinrich Heine

You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.

Henry Ward Beecher

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

Henry James

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

Gore Verbinski

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

John Dryden

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

Jan Hammer

There was this curtain, the Iron Curtain, and it was keeping out interesting, cutting-edge music. But other than that, it was pretty normal.

It's an ironic time to be having a party in Detroit.

There's a phrase: to strike while the iron is hot. The iron is hot.

Charles Spurgeon

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump.

Charlie Munger

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

Bobby Heenan

By the time The Iron Sheik gets to the ring, it will be Wrestlemania 37!

P. J. O'Rourke

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

You've got to think of the value of the iron ore business.

Cameron Diaz

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.