Quotes with iron-clanking

Quotes 41 till 54 of 54.

  • H.G. Wells There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Cassandra Clare There's a stigma that guys hate romance and hate love, but that's not true. Look at 'Iron Man.' There's a whole through-line plot about his relationship with Pepper, and everybody loves it.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Virginia Woolf 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
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Adrian Smith We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • Tom Sharp We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.
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  • Theodore Roosevelt We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Bruce Dickinson Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher What Britain needs is an iron lady.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Carson Daly When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aristotle A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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