Top 100 Quotes About Iron
#1. I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Iron Curtain. It's - they're cherished treasures to me now, of course.
Carol Guzy
#2. Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat.
Sarah Sundin
#3. Sometimes what looks like a golden opportunity is nothing more than an iron pyrite distraction. And that's when discernment reveals itself as the truest treasure.
Torry Martin
#4. Cuba," he said in his resounding defense plea, "continues to be a producer of raw materials. We exhort sugar to import candy, we export hides to import shoes, we export iron to import plows.
Eduardo Galeano
#5. She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don't hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms.
Kathryn Stockett
#6. As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes Pinto
#7. I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed ... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
Anna Akhmatova
#8. When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.
Cassandra Clare
#9. We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.
Naomi Wolf
#10. When I was a kid I was very particular. I was actually beyond particular. I would iron my money and spray it with Polo cologne.
Mark McNairy
#11. Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.
Richard Florida
#12. Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.
George R R Martin
#13. She was not light, but she was not as heavy as she should be. Her bones should be made of iron, for what else was fit to support her bravado? It would shame generals. Emperors. Professional pirates.
Meredith Duran
#15. If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
Vin Diesel
#17. I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows.
Nora Ephron
#18. The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later.
Charles R. Morris
#19. You may force your way through anything with the leverage of prayer. Thoughts and reasonings are like the steel wedges which give a hold upon truth; but prayer is the lever, the prise which forces open the iron chest of sacred mystery, that we may get the treasure hidden within.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#20. Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
Jim Hightower
#21. Then those silver eyes dimmed, like the sun vanishing behind a cloud, and he crumpled to the ground
- Iron Daughter
Julie Kagawa
#22. In Baxter's view the care for external goods should only lie on the shoulders of the "saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment".114 But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage.
Max Weber
#23. Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.
James E. Faust
#24. Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
Tim Jackson
#26. Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, ... so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#27. She lifts her eyes, and there is Death in the corner, but not like a king with his iron crown, as the epics claimed. Why, it is a giant brush loaded with white paint. It descends upon her with gentle suddenness, obliterating the shape of the world.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#28. But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed.
Lois Lowry
#29. When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted.
William Steig
#30. The steel reddens, warming under Cal's fiery touch, and bits of the gilded hilt melt between his fingers. Gold and silver and iron, dripping from his hands like tears.
Victoria Aveyard
#31. All that winter's day and far into the night the kings twisted and squirmed, but Merlin held them in his iron grasp and would not let go. He became first a rock, and then a mountain in Arthur's defence. Arthur stood equally unmoved. No power on earth could have prevailed against them ...
Stephen R. Lawhead
#32. This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
Edmund Spenser
#33. One mg. of iron supplied by wheat is not nearly as valuable as one mg. of iron supplied by salt.
C.A. Elvehjem
#34. Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.
Victoria Laurie
#36. After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
Isaac D'Israeli
#37. I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.
Creed Bratton
#38. Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it's a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.
Audrey Niffenegger
#39. We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.
William Grant Bangerter
#40. I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.
Laura Schlessinger
#41. As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up ... so we can focus ... so we can be in concert with one another.
Phil Jackson
#42. Ball position is everything in iron play. If you aren't careful about it, you can create some major problems in your game just by getting an inch or two off.
Ernie Els
#43. The mind's nature is worldly. If someone comes late, the mind will say 'Why did you come at this wrong time?' And this will create [bondage with] an iron shackle.
Dada Bhagwan
#44. There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.
Lance Armstrong
#45. Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
Hermann Von Helmholtz
#46. I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.
Phil Anselmo
#47. And she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there was such a change in her voice. Coming from that iron place, it was heavy and true; it wasn't persuasive, or desperate, or antagonistic. It just was.
Laini Taylor
#48. Richard has informed me he is shopping for his white picket fence. I'm happy behind my black wrought iron fence. The one with the pointy spikes on top. White never really was my color.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#49. If gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust ...
Geoffrey Chaucer
#50. Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart. - from The Iron
Henry Rollins
#52. I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady.
Michele Bachmann
#53. When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around.
Rick Falkvinge
#54. The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle.
Alfred Stieglitz
#55. All iron comes from stars," Seeker replied, her hand still not quite brushing the hilt of the blade. "It's the last element they can burn before they go nova. Iron's the skeletons of stars, and it's what makes our blood red. I
Elizabeth Bear
#56. My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
Swami Vivekananda
#57. When the man arises who can make you laugh, solemn Ista, angry Ista, iron Ista, then will your heart be healed. You have not prayed for this: it's a guerdon even the gods cannot give you. We are limited to such simples as redemption from your sins.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#58. I have seen giraffes in junglejims
their necks like love
wound around the iron circumstances
of the world.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#59. It was a fabled railway that was the issue of desperation and fanaticism, made as much of myth and unreality as it was to be of wood and iron and the thousands upon thousands of lives that were to be laid down over the next year to build it. But what reality was ever made by realists?
Richard Flanagan
#60. There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
Daisy Berkowitz
#61. The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.
Loren Eiseley
#62. By the time The Iron Sheik gets to the ring, it will be Wrestlemania 37!
Bobby Heenan
#63. No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
Harry Houdini
#64. Fortunately the bad guys had the tactical intelligence of a waffle iron, so the hero was able to outsmart them by ducking behind some rocks, then putting his hat on a stick and holding it
Dave Barry
#65. The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.
Henry Rollins
#66. 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?
Ellen Goodman
#67. Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
Robert Jordan
#68. 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.
Joseph Chamberlain
#69. The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness.
Ted Hughes
#70. Demons don't like iron. Or any metal really. Leave it at that. It hurts them.
Johnny Worthen
#71. My father died beside trees on iron rails ... He had 77 dollars on him at the time, and we used the money for Thai takeout because, as my friend Julie says about times like this, 'You still have to eat.'
Miriam Toews
#72. The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.
Ellsworth Huntington
#73. I am the rightful khan of the nation. I am the gur-khan. My word is iron and my word is law.
Conn Iggulden
#74. When he returned to the Iron Man production office, Downey asked that Favreau be sure to place a Tesla Roadster in Tony Stark's workshop.
Ashlee Vance
#75. Yeah, exactly. But, actually, boards prefer iron. All that glitters is not hovery.
Scott Westerfeld
#76. Quote taken from Chapter 1 of The Corpse Wore Gingham:
"You love to figure out things as much as I do," Piper said.
"Like what?" Bill asked.
"You fix broken stuff," Piper replied.
"Repairing a broken toaster or steam iron is far different than unraveling a murder mystery," Bill said.
Ed Lynskey
#77. In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.
James Nasmyth
#78. Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.
Ike Barinholtz
#79. What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it's going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
Tony Abbott
#80. The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
Giordano Bruno
#81. I think all the beer I drank in college created an iron bladder.
Steve Wiebe
#82. To go from Jon Favreau for Iron Man 1 and 2 to Kenneth Branagh for Thor and the very different world of Thor, it's about how to adapt to Coulson in a different setting and a different world while, at the same time, still have him be a part of the same world.
Clark Gregg
#83. Proud houses fall into decline and great cities pass into ruin. The stories of those things are lost to forgotten languages and moth-eaten scrolls. Vine and root grapple with the rune carved in stone, and rust carries away, fleck by fleck, the great gates of iron.
William Timothy Murray
#84. Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police
who already think you're guilty
will find it for you.
Douglas Adams
#85. O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.
William Blake
#86. But it was iron after all, and when you ask iron a question it doesn't answer.
Wieslaw Mysliwski
#87. An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
John Henry Newman
#88. I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have that many encounters with thrones in their day to day lives.
John Bradley-West
#89. It was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.
Ardyth Kennelly
#90. She stared at the featureless iron and felt more keenly than ever the distance between them. Now. Now was the time to say what might be the last words he would ever hear from her.
"Fight," she said at last. "Win.
Suzannah Rowntree
#91. She had seen hundreds of doors in the castle - doors of wood, of bronze, of glass - but never one of solid iron. This one was ancient, from a time when an iron door meant something. So was this supposed to keep someone out - or to keep something in? Celaena
Sarah J. Maas
#92. Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.
William Empson
#94. When it comes to Pakistan, the first word that comes to the mind of the Chinese is 'iron brother.' To us Chinese, Pakistan is always a trustworthy friend who is as solid as iron. Actually, Chinese netizens refer to Pakistan as 'Iron Pak.' This testifies to the strength of China-Pakistan friendship.
Li Keqiang
#95. I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man who weighed less than nine hundred pounds.
Ray Bradbury
#96. Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
Virginia Woolf
#97. War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.
Miles Cameron
#98. This is not wilderness for designation or for a park. Not a scenic wilderness and not one good for fishing or the viewing of wildlife. It is wilderness that gets into your nostrils, that runs with your sweat. It is the core of everything living, wilderness like molten iron.
Craig Childs
#99. Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.
Albert Camus
#100. I'm ready to see that new RZA movie [The Man With The Iron Fists] too, it looks kind of Tarantino-ish.
Sean Price
