Quotes and Sayings About Steel
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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
-- A. E. Housman -
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife
-- Aldous Huxley -
The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.
-- Alvar Aalto -
Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
-- Andy Grove -
We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land
-- Aneurin Bevan -
Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.
-- Anna Godbersen -
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 -
I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
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 -
Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.
-- Berton Braley -
I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted
-- Brandon Sanderson -
I'm not a fan of chrome wheels. I sort of like brushed, brushed steel, more European style.
-- Brooke Burke -
I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
-- Brownie McGhee -
And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.
-- Bruce Catton -
Steel is not forged in a comfortable place.
-- Calpernia Addams -
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
-- Carl Sandburg -
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt -
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.
-- Christopher Nolan -
The big steel wheels creaked a couple times, then started moving.
-- Christopher Paul Curtis -
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
-- Clarice Lispector -
Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!
-- Dan Meyer -
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 -
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
-- Daniel Libeskind -
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
-- Douglas Malloch -
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs -
Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
-- Edmund Spenser
