“ If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 788
“ Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping. ”
- Fred Mitchell- Copy
- 505
“ You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk. ”
- Eric Burdon- Copy
- 277
“ Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories? ”
- Emo Philips- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think. ”
- Tony Wilson- Copy
- 3.7K
“ That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories. ”
- Thomas Carper- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
- 350
“ The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. ”
- Bryan Miller- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I can cope with a smack in the face, or at least I should be able to after the number I have had. This one was just run-of-the-mill for me. ”
- Richard Gough- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Though the mills of God grind slowly; yet, they grind exceeding small. ”
- Friedrich Von Logau- Copy
- 974
“ The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. ”
- Anna Jameson- Copy
- 237
“ The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so. ”
- Bertolt Brecht- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas' cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
- 1K
“ Manchester, New Hampshire is a broken down mill-town … with an aggressive Chamber of Commerce and America's worst newspaper. There is not much else to say for it, except that Manchester is a welcome change from Washington, D.C. ”
- Hunter Thompson- Copy
- 414
“ When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth? ”
- Priscilla Presley- Copy
- 521
“ I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does? ”
- Amy Grant- Copy
- 3.1K
“ People are the common denominator of progress. So… no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development… But we are coming to realize… that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy… ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
- 706
“ I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
- 2.8K
“ When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 2.4K
“ We are the party of all labor. The whole earth shall be ours to share. And every race and craft our neighbor. No idle class shall linger there like vultures on the wealth we render from field and factory, mill and mine. Tomorrow's sun will rise in splendor and light us till the end of time. ”
- Eugene Pottier- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going up, going down, between upstanding banks of brilliant lights, each building braided and embossed with glowing, many-colored bulbs of man-rayed luminance… ”
- Sean O’Casey- Copy
- 2.1K
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