Boilers Quotes

We've had boilers getting overworked, filters plugged on furnaces, and a gas regulator that went bad on another one. - Ron Hume

We have found the best way to control efficiency is by fine-tuning the boilers. Our custodians make sure they check the rooms when they clean and close the blinds to keep out the cold air and then open them when the sun comes up. - JeanAnn Paddyfote

There are tremendous needs here in Oil City. The high school is 40 years old and there have been no major renovations. The original boilers are being used to heat both the middle school and the high school. Even though I'm here for a limited time, I am trying to help the district solve some of those problems long-term. - Thomas Finlan

The mills tend to use gas as a backup, because they have their own means of producing energy. They mostly use hog fuel to power their boilers. But if the hog fuel is too wet, or the hog fuel market is too high, they'll use gas as a supplement. - John Hubler

ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war --so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points of difference between them, but the fashion in hair was the fundamental cause of quarrel. The Cavaliers were royalists because the king, an indolent fellow, found it more convenient to let his hair grow than to wash his neck. This the Roundheads, who were mostly barbers and soap-boilers, deemed an injury to trade, and the royal neck was therefore the object of their particular indignation. Descendants of the belligerents now wear their hair all alike, but the fires of animosity enkindled in that ancient strife smoulder to this day beneath the snows of British civility. - Ambrose Bierce

Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

[Nathaniel Hawthorne's books were] potboilers in their time and became part of the literary establishment... No one knows if the Harry Potter books will be part of the literary curriculum 100 years from now, but it's quite possible. - Henry Jenkins

(Nathaniel) Hawthorne's books were potboilers in their time and became part of the literary establishment. No one knows if the Harry Potter books will be part of the literary curriculum 100 years from now, but it's quite possible. - Henry Jenkins