Steam Quotes - page 2

The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it. (Wendell Berry)
In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam. View quote
James Nasmyth
Private Capitalism makes a steam engine; State Capitalism makes pyramids. View quote
Frank Chodorov
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 engine and I loved the machinery. View quote
Clyde Tombaugh
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive. View quote
Eric Massa
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign. View quote
Erik Brynjolfsson
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. View quote
John Mason Good
Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings. View quote
Julian Baggini
I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.' View quote
Nina Arianda
My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger! View quote
Paul Prudhomme
By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days. (Townsend Harris)
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor. View quote
Vinoba Bhave
People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax. View quote
Will Carling
Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere. View quote
Michael Bond
Wisely watch for the sight Of the supernova burgeoning over the barn, Lampshine blurred in the steam of beasts, the spirit's right Oasis, light incarnate. View quote
Richard Wilbur
I believe in the future of television! I wish to be ready to go up right along with it. Therefore I'm planning to get in on the ground floor. In fact I've already made the right connections and all that remains is for the industry itself to get under way! Full steam - Knowledge - Zzzzzp! Money - Zzzzzp! View quote
Tennessee Williams
Eternally the choking steam goes up From the black pools of seething oil... View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
You got through a day and wondered what your reward was. It soon became evident the prize was you got to withstand tomorrow too. You got through it, hour by long hour, but at the end you looked up without much expectation. You had begun the understand the score. Sure enough: today's prize was the same. Outwardly calm, but with a scream building like the sound of a long-forgotten steam engine in the back corner of a basement, you got through that tomorrow too, and a flat hardpan of further tomorrows after that. You got through enough of then to realize you'd been had, that there aren't tomorrows after all but the wretched stretch of an endless today. What can you do? Rebellion gets you nowhere. View quote
Michael Marshall Smith
I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day. View quote
Phil Collins
This is Alberich's dream come true - Nibelheim, world dominion, activity, work, everywhere the oppressive feeling of steam and fog. View quote
Richard Wagner
Rutherford did not pretend to understand quantum mechanics, but he understood that the Gamow formula would give his accelerator a crucial advantage. Even particles accelerated at much lower energies ... would be able to penetrate into nuclei. Rutherford invited Gamow to Cambridge in January 1929 ... [They] became firm friends and Gamow's insight gave Rutherford the impetus to go full steam ahead with the building of his accelerator. (Freeman Dyson)
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
I'm obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that. View quote
Simon Cowell
You could have a steam train If you'd just lay down your tracks. You could have an aeroplane flying If you bring your blue sky back.All you do is call me. I'll be anything you need. View quote
Peter Gabriel
Give me steam. And how you feel to make it real; Real as anything you've seen. Get a life with this dreamer's dream. View quote
Peter Gabriel