Steel Quotes - Page 24

• Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.

  Gore Vidal

  Oil, Agriculture, Entrepreneur

  Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage

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• Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.

  Laura Huxley

  Vocabulary, Life Is Like, Quality

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• There's just a lot of people that hold on to what country means to them. I love fiddle, I love steel, but I don't think it should be a rule that it has to be used in every song. I think that's not what defines or makes country music.

  Eric Church

  Country, Song, Mean

  "Who the hell is Eric Church?". Interview with Bill DeYoung, www.connectsavannah.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

  Anne Truitt

  Men, Sculpture, Woods

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles. ... A cat has the face of a pansy flower, and is just as velvety. A cat holds infinity in her eyes, and your heart in her front paws.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Flower, Heart, Cat

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• To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Beautiful, Bible, Jobs

  Jaroslav Pelikan (2006). “Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures”, p.229, Penguin

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• An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team.

  Willie Geist

  Fun, Smart, Team

  "10 questions for new third hour TODAY co-anchor Willie Geist". Interview with Danika Fears, www.today.com. November 12, 2012.

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• We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.

  Janet Morris

  Nature, War, Men

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.187, Paradise Publishing

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• As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

  Michael Arad

  Glasses, Cities, Imagining The Future

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• So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Blessed, Names, Pieces

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• If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.

  Shania Twain

  Heart, Dust, Infidelity

  Song: Home Ain't Where His Heart Is, Album: The Woman in Me

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• For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

  Daniel Johnston

  College, Pottery, Factories

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2011.

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• In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Quality, Gone, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

  Rod Stewart

  Guitar, Rock And Roll, Courses

  Song: Mandolin Wind, Album: Every Picture Tells a Story, 1971

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• If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Cracks, Unanswered Questions

  "Song: 'Astral Weeks' ('Astral Weeks')". 1968.

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• I don't really have time to watch too much, but I like 'Family Guy' and 'Entourage.' I'm also obsessed with the YouTube series 'Balls of Steel.' It's hilarious.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Family Guy, Too Much, Watches

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• The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.

  L.A. Reid

  Stars, Eye, Passion

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• If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.

  Nik Wallenda

  Moisture, Pieces, Sticks

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• I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Beautiful, Talking, Tanks

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• More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Men, Defeated, Has Beens

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• I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.

  Ray William Johnson

  Fighting, Two, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even the smallest trace. So that all his life her son would feel gladness unaccountably when anyone spoke of the ruined city of steel in America. Each time almost remembering something maybe important that got lost.

  Jack Gilbert

  Son, America, Cities

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.36, Knopf

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• Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.

  Maturin Murray Ballou

  Book, Brain, Sparks

  Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”

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