Iron Quotes

789 Iron quotes by 608 unique authors

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… — Alfred Stieglitz
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I… — Abraham Lincoln
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. — Vincent Van Gogh
I don't believe in taking much of a divot, especially with the longer irons. You want to barely comb the grass through impact. It's the… — Moe Norman
My handicap? Woods and irons. — Unknown Author
You win all the Tucsons, all the Kemps, all the Iron City Opens you can, nobody remembers. You win a Masters, nobody ever forgets — Unknown Author
The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. — Richard Watson Gilder
It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner to which we… — Emile Borel
As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive… — Madeleine Sophie Barat
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is… — Unknown Author
The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from… — Hudson Maxim
[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth
It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics… — Vasco Ronchi
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.… — Hokusai
I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into… — Aeschylus
Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round… — H. Rider Haggard
There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's teachings are not… — Carlos Castaneda
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles
People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to… — Henry Rollins
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame… — Lewis Mumford
For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke.… — Chuck Bednarik
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment. — Isaac Babel
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in… — Unknown Author
Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. — William Shakespeare

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