Smokestack Quotes

#1. The steamboat left the harbor and it was something in this world, the paddle thundering, the smokestack blowing, and people lined up on the top deck waving handkerchiefs. I watched it

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

David Lynch

#3. You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

Wendell Berry

#4. There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

Milton Friedman

#5. With its towering smokestack, it looked like a factory built to produce nightmares in mass quantities.

Joe Hill

#6. There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity,

Denis Hayes

#7. The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

John Mearsheimer

#8. Are you sure you're not looking for an excuse to stay in the smokestack with me?"
"If we attempt to check on the weapons now, in daylight, we may be spotted."
"Don't worry. You don't have to say it. I know." Amarante patted him on the chest. "It was good for me too.

Lindsay Buroker

#9. HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.

Douglas Coupland

#10. Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy , throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered.

Tom McCall

#11. Gates and Allen's use of Harvard's lab space would return to haunt them over the years, as their rivals suggested time and again that Microsoft played a rigged business game,

Linsey McGoey

#12. The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.

{Cuvier on Joseph Banks}

Georges Cuvier

#13. Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

Anthony Hopkins

#14. No man is quick enough to enjoy life.

Martial

#15. One whose faith (nishtha) is set in God, he is known as Brahma-nishtha (settled in the Self).

Dada Bhagwan

#16. It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

Flo Rida

#17. The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

Jessica Savitch

#18. Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

Luanne Rice

#19. As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

Rob Wittman

#20. Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

Daley Thompson