Steam Quotes

241 Steam quotes by 214 unique authors

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out… — Tamora Pierce
Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is… — Criss Jami
In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with… — Ross Parmenter
The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire. — Sally Ride
As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small… — Colin Baker
I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey. — Nina Arianda
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by… — Thomas Carlyle
By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days. — Townsend Harris
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it… — James Nasmyth
I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam… — Solange Knowles
People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax. — Will Carling
I like to do a face steam, so, heat up a flannel, press it onto your face and then press a cold one on afterwards… — Georgia May Jagger
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy. — John Constable
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made… — Augustus William Hare
The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can… — Oliver Evans
His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee. — Samuel Johnson
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of… — Charles Fort
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts... — Saint Basil
With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of… — Douglas Bloch
Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I… — Amos Bronson Alcott

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