A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days. — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul. — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing. — Brownie Wise Copy Share Image
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Espresso, made by steam expressing finely ground coffee, is rich in flavor and aroma and chlorogenic acids, but not very concentrated at… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title.… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium… — Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories of something that caught my attention was of a steam locomotive. I guess mainly because they have… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine. — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next. — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve… — Ben Sweetland Copy Share Image
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
