Steam Quotes

241 Steam quotes by 214 unique authors

I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my… — Sara Gruen
It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived… — John Harvey Kellogg
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in… — Frederick Soddy
And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of… — Upton Sinclair
Brands were a by-product of having great products and communicating them well to people. Power stations that generate a lot of electricity probably have a… — Unknown Author
More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Recently I stood in the desert, far out side of L. A., and watched the sun set on a circus tent from 1930. Every where… — Robert Pattinson
One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not… — Jose Mourinho
How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have refined the steam… — Unknown Author
The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs… — Elayne Boosler
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough… — Edward Abbey
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam, — Charles Babbage
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man. — Andrew Carnegie
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became… — L. Frank Baum
It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole… — Frank Bruno
The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or… — Richard Farson
To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can… — Bruce Willis
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make… — George William Russell
It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with… — Unknown Author
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never… — David Brewster
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't… — Bill Gates
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. .… — Unknown Author
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on,… — Thomas Carlyle
Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea… — Louis Pullig De Gouy
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You… — William Tecumseh Sherman

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214 authors contributed a total of 241 Steam Quotes, led by these top contributors: