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Quotes About Burners

Coal had served blacksmiths for hundreds of years. Soap boilers used it; so did lime burners, who roasted limestone in kilns to make quicklime for plaster; so did salt boilers, who boiled down seawater in open iron pans, a tedious process prodigal of fuel, to make salt for food preservation in the centuries before refrigeration.
~ Richard Rhodes
Vick frowned towards the bonfire, the ragged figures warming their hands, the Burners dragging people from the buildings, the Constables emptying out the cellar that had been a bank. "You want to paint this?" "Future generations might never believe that it happened." She blew some yellow hair out of her face with a smoky breath and went back to sketching, charcoal hissing on paper. "Then it might happen again.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Spinners are a funny breed. If they're playing on seaming pitches they moan and if they're about to play on real 'Bunsen burners' they reckon the pressure is on them.
~ Nasser Hussain
Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.
~ Steve Fossett
I am spoiled, it's true. I don't even know how to use that thing in the kitchen with the burners.
~ Cindy Margolis