Best 17 quotes in «steam quotes» category

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.

Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.

Willpower is steam for life's locomotion.

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

The steam was thicker than expected and surprisingly easy to scoop up. Inside her mouth it swelled twice its original size and then burst into a series of delicate favors: savory cream sauce, then toasted cheese, and finally vanilla ice cream with a tinge of hazelnut.

I was just so interested in what I was doing I could hardly wait to get up in the morning and get at it. One of my friends, a geneticist, said I was a child, because only children can't wait to get up in the morning to get at what they want to do." - Dr. Barbara McClintock

The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn electrical generators.

His fingerprints covered my skin.

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 of the shower.

I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.