Steel Quotes - Page 2

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.

My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords.

My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

In my own house I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know. Although I had received no technical education I made myself master of chemistry and of the laboratory, which proved of lasting value.

I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.

They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction, I did all that. It was great work, it was good. I learned welding, mechanic, carpentry, but it saved me from going back to prison because that's helpful. It's really sad because those jobs are gone.

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.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

And not a single mark on the Lamborghini. Ha! Eat steel, you soul-sucking bastards! (Kyrian)

Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling.

I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

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.

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.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Words could be just as deadly as steel.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

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

A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.