Converters Quotes

#1. You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.

Jack Gilbert

#2. As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

Charles M. Schwab

#3. But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!

Luke Skywalker

#4. LUKE But unto Tosche Station would I go, And there obtain some pow'r converters. Fie!

Ian Doescher

#5. The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Charles Caleb Colton

#6. An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

Preston Manning

#7. A man must serve his time to every trade,
Save censure-critics all are ready made.
Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote
With just enough learning to misquote ...

Lord Byron

#8. I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

John Malkovich

#9. We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.

Michael Talbot

#10. In the silence, while awaiting the distant footsteps of death he heard someone weeping! O God, was that you?

Preeth Nambiar

#11. Disagreement is something normal.

Dalai Lama

#12. Did you ever notice how some colors are used for people's names but others aren't?

Nicholas Sparks

#13. We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#14. I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

Laurence Housman

#15. The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

Toyo Ito

#16. While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

Elliott Abrams

#17. I figured the guy was completely blinded by the rich world that deliberately shows us poor Africans a "paradise" we cannot enter, though he had a point.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#18. I played my age. Not bad.

Ron Francis

#19. Advice to Young Poets
Never pretend
to be a unicorn
by sticking a plunger on your head.

Martin Espada