Iron Quotes - Page 18

• I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mean, Leaving, Feelings

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• When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

  Red Barber

  Baseball, Player, Balls

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• People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner...I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman.

  Gabor Szabo

  Music, America, People

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• As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Fire, Glowing

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

  Jared Diamond

  Ignorance, Past, Age

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• Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

  Bill Mollison

  Differences, Stupidity, Use

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• An iron chain is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.

  Eliphas Levi

  Flower, Break, Chains

  "Transcendental Magic".

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• There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

  E. Nesbit

  Strong, Real, Glasses

  E. Nesbit (1907). “The Enchanted Castle”, p.170, Lulu.com

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• You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.

  R. Scott Bakker

  War, Mean, Dark

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.369, The Overlook Press

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• I was a heavy heart to carry
  My beloved was weighed down
  My arms around his neck
  My fingers laced to crown.
  I was a heavy heart to carry
  My feet dragged across ground
  And he took me to the river
  Where he slowly let me drown
  My love has concrete feet
  My love's an iron ball
  Wrapped around your ankles
  Over the waterfall

  Florence Welch

  Heart, Rivers, Feet

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• What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Men, Wings, Despair

  Adelbert von Chamisso, Prosper Mérimée, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “3 great classics”

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• When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.

  Gary Danielson

  College, Watches, Woods

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• The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Crush, Loyalty, Memories

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

  Lynn Barber

  Oil, Giving, Want

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• I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

  Kabir Bedi

  Men, Hair, Long

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• To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Trust In God, Easy

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• I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

  Rumi

  Enormous, Magnet, Resisting

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• Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Use

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Mojave Crossing”, p.32, Bantam

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• High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at cocktail time without falling over the fire irons all suggest dark wings hovering overhead and the impending midnight croak of the raven.

  Lucius Beebe

  Philosophy, Fall, Dark

  Lucius Morris Beebe (1966). “The Provocative Pen of Lucius Beebe, Esq”

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• Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory debauchery, to fulfill her own dream-that is, her own destruction and death? And, in some surreptitious way, isn't she in charge of them? Doesn't she bend them to her will?

  Anne Desclos

  Dream, Doe, Use

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• Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

  Edward Abbey

  Strength, Nature, Grass

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.

  Jay-Z

  Strength, Strong, Fall

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• While I talked about comparisons between Cap and Cable, there's also a parallel with Tony Stark. Iron Man thinks of himself as a 'futurist,' Cable is from the future. Both have been at war with their own bodies. We look for characters with touch points to Cable. Their legacy means an enormous amount to him.

  Jeph Loeb

  War, Mean, Character

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• Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Life, Fire, Differences

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. . . . He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. . . . Toiling,-rejoicing,-sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Strong, Morning

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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