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Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that. -- Glenn Close
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode. -- Hedy Lamarr
We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting. -- Giovanni Ribisi
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work. -- Mona Simpson
Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler. -- Amy Winehouse
If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate. -- Alan Watts
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. -- Ambrose Bierce
I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing. -- Quentin Bryce
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. -- Samuel Johnson
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar. -- Mark Twain
Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group? -- John Connolly
Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven. -- Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers. -- Jules Verne
Id love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdoms a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. -- John Rhys-Davies
Your children are not the same. Not at all. Each one is unique. There are no "boiler plate" clauses that fit all children. They are like snowflakes with their own patterns and their own shapes and their own sizes. -- Bob Benson
The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine. -- Scott Westerfeld
I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful. -- Winston Churchill
I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends. -- George Bernard Shaw
Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script. -- Erma Bombeck
If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers. -- Kevin Kwan
I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. -- John Rhys-Davies
If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations. -- Edmund Phelps
I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car. -- Owen Paterson
I used to do boiler room telemarketing for a living, like hardcore fraud stuff that gets busted on 60 Minutes every week. -- Doug Stanhope
The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate. -- Winston Churchill

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