Steam Quotes

241 Steam quotes by 214 unique authors

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine. — Arthur Schopenhauer
To change our national economic story from one of financial speculation to one of future growth, we need a third industrial revolution: a green revolution.… — Chris Huhne
Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean. — Jo Nesbo
There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to… — Eliphas Levi
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. — Frank Chodorov
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've… — Jimmy Buffett
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. — Melvil Dewey
Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from… — J.R.R. Tolkien
An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that… — Dale Carnegie
America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the… — Oscar Wilde
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting… — Thomas Carlyle
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. — Thomas Carlyle
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies,… — Peter Ackroyd
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of… — William Stanley Jevons
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and… — Joseph Heller
Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam. — Giorgio Napolitano
At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were… — Harvey V. Fineberg
Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers — Gabe Newell
Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever… — Rudolf Rocker
When I know I have a huge shoot, I’ll just go into the sauna and steam out my face. Product-wise, I don’t really do much… — Chanel Iman
... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that every track I… — DJ Shadow
In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam. — James Nasmyth

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