Steam Quotes

241 Steam quotes by 214 unique authors

I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it.… — Lewis B. Smedes
I just felt like I had run out of steam. I just felt like it was my time. — Barry Sanders
Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam — Michael Spinks
I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul. — Geoff Hoon
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success. — Zig Ziglar
My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is… — Robert Fulton
The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle… — Norman Corwin
The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit.… — Yang Lan
Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing. — Brownie Wise
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel… — Steven Johnson
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam… — Clyde Tombaugh
It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but… — Tertullian
The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of… — Herodotus
Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I… — Archimedes
The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off. — Prince Philip
The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam. — Elizabeth Knox
Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean. — Dionysius Lardner
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. — Townsend Harris
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. — Albert Einstein
Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. — Robert Farrar Capon
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable. — Andy Hargreaves
By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned… — Phil Cooke
The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine,… — Scott Westerfeld
Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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