Quotes of: Iron-curtain Keyword

The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.

James Gray

Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of ste...

Shepard Fairey

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.

Abduction

Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.

The Amateur

Either way, Grayson found it ironic how such dissimilar circumstances, colleges, and mental hospitals, had led to the same awful apartment.

The Huntress

If you lie there much longer, I’ll be tempted to tie you to the table legs and try buttering your ass instead of the toast.

Iron Dominance

It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down within their first year

Shadows & Dreams

In the midst of the battle between rebellion and surrender Bantry was suddenly uncertain what Flynn was starved for. The sensuality of a man’s kiss? Or the rich, iron taste of blood?

Nocturne

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

London Calling

I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.

Troll Or Derby

As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated—but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water.

Poisoned Apple

The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire reading base will disappear.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

The Whitechapel Horrors

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

How Ironic, when you do business you create exceptions to create new opportunities, when you write code (do a job) you handle exception to make it clean.

Pushkar Saraf

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

Philip Yancey

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

Soren Kierkegaard

An intangible substance, make up the world around us. But ironically, must still only foolishly trust, in what they can see or touch.

Sovereign Voice

'Iron Man' was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other side of a superhero movie. More complex with The Hulk being this complex character - that's what it was.

Louis Leterrier

You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know?

Latrell Sprewell