Steam Quotes

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 the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. (George William Russell)
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 became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. View quote
James Nasmyth
I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical. View quote
Tomas Tranströmer
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. View quote
Conor Oberst
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. View quote
Townsend Harris
Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy. View quote
John Constable
Now I could let these dream killers kill my self esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh. View quote
Kanye West
When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy. View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air. View quote
Erasmus Darwin
The smell of the library was always the same – the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as "the steam of the social soup." View quote
Peter Ackroyd
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success. (Zig Ziglar)
A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power. View quote
Charles Babbage
Mr. Herschel ... brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam," to which Herschel replied, "It is quite possible." View quote
Charles Babbage
The clock not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if I do not support it. The title attracts attention to myself. View quote
Stendhal
Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 seen it all.Watched the men who rode you, Switch from sails to steam. And in your belly you hold the treasure That few have ever seen. Most of them dreams, Most of them dreams. View quote
Jimmy Buffett
The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods. View quote
Bayard Taylor
The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know. View quote
Edward Abbey
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. (Mark Haddon)
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another. View quote
Steven Johnson
I go to the hamam and put henna on my skin and hair. Even when I go to New York, I let the shower run hot to create a steam hamam at my hotel. But when I finish with the bath, I put on expensive French creams. View quote
Fatema Mernissi
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. View quote
Phyllis Diller
Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane. View quote
J.R. Ward