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Quotes About Ore

Alla luce di una lampada a olio Gauss passava ore e ore a osservare il pendolo. Nella stanza non penetravano suoni. Così come il viaggio sul pallone con Pilâtre gli aveva mostrato cosa fosse lo spazio, adesso in qualche modo sarebbe riuscito a comprendere l'inquietudine insita nel cuore della natura. Non era necessario arrampicarsi sulle montagne o impelagarsi nella giungla. Chi osservava quell'ago guardava l'interno del mondo.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.
~ Bob Dylan
Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
~ Tom Udall
The empire purchased mines (by forced sale?), mined its own ore
~ Larry Niven
Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.
~ Jonathan Ive
John had always confided in her about business and in 1893 was still sending her detailed reports about Mesabi ore.
~ Ron Chernow
Carnegie had seriously misjudged developments in the ore business.
~ Ron Chernow
As with oil, ore prices skidded lower, bankrupting marginal producers and bolstering the Rockefeller-Carnegie alliance.
~ Ron Chernow
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.
~ Johann Georg Hamann
On evil's cushion poised, His Majesty, Satan Thrice-Great, lulls our charmed soul, until He turns to vapor what was once our will: Rich ore, transmuted by his alchemy.
~ Baudelaire
Seems he'd cornered a very valuable ore called Columbite. Everybody was wanting the stuff. It's got an extraordinarily high melting point. Jet engines can't be made without it. There's very little of it in the world, only a few thousand tons are produced every year, mostly as a by-product of the Nigerian tin mines.
~ Ian Fleming
and large outdoor furnaces where the ore was refined, and mounds of earth in long rows where quicksilver was being used to extract silver from lower-grade ore. To Jack it was a toss
~ Neal Stephenson
chalcopyrite.
~ Hector Tobar
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
~ Lakshmi Mittal
The refinements of passion, the extravagances of sensuality! And necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt out the heaviest ore of the body into purity. With the fire of sheer sensuality.
~ D.H. Lawrence
The Spanish silver mines, for example, once part of Hannibal's domain, were soon producing so much more ore that the environmental pollution from its processing can still be detected in datable samples extracted from deep in the Greenland ice cap.
~ Mary Beard
only the heat of that compassion united with wisdom can melt the ore in our minds, so as to liberate the gold of our fundamental nature.
~ Matthieu Ricard
We are a Faustian age determined to meet the Lord or the Devil before we are done, and the ineluctable ore of the authentic is our only key to the lock.
~ Norman Mailer
Who had actually been first would never now be known. Both governments had claimed them: the wealth contained in the lonely metal chunks would be a heady boost for the planet whose companies could mine and refine such plentiful ore.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
~ Job 28:2