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Quotes About Girder

The Irishman shambles up to him and asks if there's any casual job going. "You don't look to me," says the supervisor, "as if you know the difference between a girder and a joist." "I do, too," says the Irishman indignantly. "The first of them wrote Faust and the second one wrote Ulysses.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Down Wall, from girder into street noon leaks,A rip-tooth of the sky's acetylene.
~ Hart Crane
I don't think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
~ W. Somerset Maugham