Bessemer Quotes

#1. There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love.

Michael Chabon

#2. (before the Bessemer process, iron was hardened into steel at the rate of 3 to 5 tons a day; now the same amount could be processed in 15 minutes). Machines

Howard Zinn

#3. The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter.

Robert Stawell Ball

#4. The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#5. Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you 'give' to the other side.

Barack Obama

#6. I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

Haruki Murakami

#7. You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering ...

Zana Briski

#8. In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

Henry Bessemer

#9. It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

Henry Bessemer

#10. Sir 25:16 The fear of God is the beginning of his love: and the beginning of faith is to be fast joined unto it.

Various

#11. We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

Henry Bessemer

#12. I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

Henry Bessemer

#13. I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

Henry Bessemer

#14. On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

Henry Bessemer

#15. The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

Andrew Jackson

#16. You slept just fine in the recliner. Why couldn't you sleep with me?"
"You mean next to a guy who still smelled like the pair of bar flies he had just sent home? I don't know! How selfish of me!

Jamie McGuire

#17. At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

Henry Bessemer

#18. The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

Henry Bessemer

#19. I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Bessemer

#20. In order to demonstrate IT value, organizations need to first know wherein lies the IT value.

Pearl Zhu

#21. I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.

Henry Bessemer

#22. If you write a novel where war is nothing but hell and no one experiences excitement or cracks a dark joke, then you're not actually admitting the full experience.

Phil Klay

#23. There is a measure of safety in blindness, but you can't find happiness in safety, no matter how much you want to.

Maria Rachel Hooley