Boiler Quotes

30 quotes by 29 authors

I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall… — Jules Verne
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of… — John Timbs
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,… — Georges Bernanos
There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler,… — Justus von Liebig
The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate. — Winston Churchill
Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that. — Glenn Close
It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of our separate and… — Hazel Hawke
Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be… — Leonard Ravenhill
Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I… — Archimedes
We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the… — Giovanni Ribisi
Id love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to… — John Rhys-Davies
The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine,… — Scott Westerfeld
If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate. — Alan Watts
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. — Samuel Johnson
Your children are not the same. Not at all. Each one is unique. There are no "boiler plate" clauses that fit all children. They are… — Bob Benson
Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add colorâ€”itâ€™s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated… — Sylvia Plath
Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make… — Erma Bombeck
Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious… — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. — Ambrose Bierce
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the… — Hedy Lamarr

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