Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Your children are not the same. Not at all. Each one is unique. There are no "boiler plate" clauses that fit all… — Bob Benson Copy Share Image
I remember somebody had said to me "What're you doing with a movie like Boiler Room? It's all men and you're a… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing. — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I actually live right near a high school and I always walk by...I live in a high school. I actually live in… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is… — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Copy Share Image
Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
I used to do boiler room telemarketing for a living, like hardcore fraud stuff that gets busted on 60 Minutes every week. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image