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Quotes About Steel

She pretended his eyes weren't scouring her up and down, steel wool scraping her skin raw. Her
~ Laura Ruby
entering with a flourish of steel, rousting the hapless Mesquita out of his bunk. This had once been Cartagena's ship
~ Laurence Bergreen
When he got work my father worked as a steel worker, high up on tall buildings, walking on beams like those Mohawk Indians. It was dangerous work. People were always falling to their death. He worked on the building of the Ben Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia and on the few high-rise buildings they could afford to build in the Depression.
~ Charles Brandt
was it man's love to screw the sky with monuments span the bay with orange and silver bridges shuttling structure into structure incorruptible in this endless tie each age impassions be it in stone or steel either in echo or halfheard ruin
~ Gregory Corso
The Indian intelligentsia was mesmerized by the apparent success of the USSR. It wanted big steel plants and not small factories which made clothes, shoes, toys, and bicycles—the sort of things that the masses could use. In those days, anyone in India who advocated greater investment in agriculture was branded an American agent.
~ Gurcharan Das
Book Power Books feed and cure and chortle and collide. In all this willful world of thud and thump and thunder man's relevance to books continues to declare. Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower, steel, stitch, and cloud and clout, and drumbeats in the air.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
I have children of my own." And then he spoke the words that have become engraven on my heart. "You need nerves of steel to be a parent.
~ James Herriot
The U.S. has done a great job improving productivity. We're making a lot more steel in Dearborn with fewer people. The unions have accepted much better work rules.
~ Alexei Mordashov
Here at home, we're in a world of right angles and human construct, so whether it's cement or plastic or steel, everything is at an angle. But nature is chaos theory in full play. So having that uniqueness of what nature is gives me a sense of rejuvenation and scale.
~ Conrad Anker
The future is in green energy; it's in making steel for energy-efficient cars.
~ Alexei Mordashov
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
~ Lakshmi Mittal
In 1999, we did a thing called the 'Reinventing The Steel' tour with Pantera, when I was still with them, and Slayer was part of that, and it was a great tour.
~ Vinnie Paul
I am so proud to be the Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania - a storied steel town I like to say built half the world.
~ John Fetterman
The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.
~ Alexei Mordashov
High-profile industry disruptions such as steel or car plant closures attract much media and political attention.
~ Anthony Pratt
Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.
~ David Tepper
I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
~ Frances McDormand
The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
~ L.A. Reid
My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.
~ Anand Mahindra
Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.
~ Baba Kalyani
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
~ Christopher Marlowe
I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
~ Brownie McGhee
What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.
~ Charles M. Schwab