“The emergence of the steam engine and its entire subsequent development was driven by market needs. The original need was to pump… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I want to be a hybrid fighter. From Pacquiao I was able to learn that a big heart is also essential when… — Tomoki Kameda Copy Share Image
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but… — John Timbs Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
“The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.” — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point. — Bella Pollen 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
The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy. — John Constable Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail. — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax. — Will Carling Copy Share Image
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He… — Eric Massa Copy Share Image
The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration… — Colin Baker Copy Share Image
I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce,… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Do you remember the first three years of Steam? People absolutely hated that Valve forced you to launch their game through what… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image