Quotes About Mill

The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

My paternal grandfather worked in the mill all his life. My father worked in the mill almost his whole life. I worked in the mill while I was going to college in the summers. And then, for one stretch, I quit school and worked one year.

A city of Dreadful Nights: "The world rolls round forever like a mill, it grinds out life and death and good and ill. It has no purpose, heart, nor mind, nor will.

meant he must have left it in his room. Exactly as Wellstone hoped. A few more people joined the entourage; they milled around outside

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.

POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

I think that if you grind your spices and keep them in small batches, you can use them in endless ways. The key thing is to have a spice mill or a coffee grinder, and to keep your spices cold and in tightly lidded boxes.

old textile mill, which was in the process of being

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

Pop – Pop culture has turned the brain into the body's new appendix – no real function, and it could quite possibly blow up and mill you. As organs go, you just don't need your brain anymore!

The cider tasted like Michigan too and I always remembered the cider mill

Burke, unlike the Mill of On Liberty, had a true understanding of the nature of men, and balanced liberty with restraint and order, which are, in truth, essential to the preservation of liberty.

He argued, in the spirit of Mill, that 'whatever the immediate consequences of a new truth may be, there is a high probability that truth will in the long run lead to better results than falsehood'. This was very much in line with his attack on Moore's argument for following generally accepted rules rather than using individual judgement. However, he conceded that the 'modern prejudice in favour of truth [may be] founded on somewhat insufficient bases'.

Even more dangerous, perhaps, and certainly more difficult to understand or restrain, is a less overt, more insidious kind of tyranny: what Mill called 'the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling' ([1859] 1974:

But here by the mill the castled clouds Mocked themselves in the dizzy water...

Key log: a truly ancient concept from the days before suspensors when lumbermen sent their fallen timber rushing down rivers to central mill sites. Sometimes the logs jammed up in the river and an expert was brought in to find the one log, the key log, which would free the jam when removed.

It seemed like people then had a lot of feelings and you could get all bundled up like Eli had and brood with them for a while, or you could recoil entirely like I was doing (for professional reasons) and consider your behavior just art, grist for the mill.

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

I have wondered at you sometimes, not for daring, but for bearing to trust your noble works into the great mill of the rank, popular playhouse, to be ground to pieces between the teeth of vulgar actors and actresses. I, for one, would as soon have my soul among lions.

I'm a miller—unfortunately—I own a mill. That is, the mill owns me, for you know what they say. Once you're dragged into it, you're finished.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.