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The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. — Peter Singer

The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine. — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. — Jules Verne

The gum is so minty in my mouth as I chew it, I can hardly inhale. It's like inhaling the steam off a block of ice, too fresh. — Laura Kasischke

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam. — Cameron Conaway

Ian Baird is dashing around like a steam roller up front. — Martin Tyler

Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam — Michael Spinks

there were three kinds of thermal features in the world: geysers, mud pots, and fumaroles (steam vents), and Yellowstone featured them all. — C.J. Box

I heard a screeching like steam from a teapot, and realized it was me. — David Wong

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. — Thomas Carlyle

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Sadness is
Steam rising
Tears falling
A breath you take in
But can't let out
As hard as you try. — Patricia MacLachlan

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. — Charles Babbage

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead. — Conor McGregor

My mother says it is totally fine
if I blow off steam
as long as I speak in an octave
my kindness can still reach. — Andrea Gibson

The windmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam mill, society with the industrial capitalist — Karl Marx

A pod's activated ahead of us, releasing a gush of steam that parboils everyone in its path, leaving the victims intestine-pink and very dead. — Suzanne Collins

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. — Mark Haddon

The whole question of the steam engine is one of economy. It's development consist of nothing but the quest for greater efficiency. — William Stanley Jevons

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

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. — Townsend Harris

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science. — James Bryant Conant

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding. — Mariella Frostrup

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam, — Charles Babbage

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time. — Lemony Snicket

I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness — Charles Dickens

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. — Phyllis Diller

As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad. — Heywood Broun

Measurements is your saving grace if you want to raise steam. — Terry Pratchett

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable. — Andy Hargreaves

Step on the moist, pillowsoft earth, walking gingerly aside a weeping steam that calls your name, for it knows how to heal a wounded heart. — Maximillian Degenerez

If you want to keep your side dishes warmer than room temperature, consider buying a small steam table for the home, with the Sterno cans underneath. — Jose Andres

The incident made me lose the steam in myself but not to worry; this balloon can easily re-inflate itself..." ;) — Institutional Research

Steam-baths are excellent for severe colds, and for some disorders in the bowels. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

It was a masterpiece. Nobody bought it. (re: Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844) — Anthony Bailey

Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark. — William S. Burroughs

He loved the fact that if you got your customer laughing then you had their money in your pocket — Terry Pratchett

The steel kettle shone, a slow furl of steam at its spout, vaguely suggestive of genie and lamp. Oh, grant me a wish, just the one. — John Banville

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

Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night. — Warren Ellis

Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every song sounds like it's about fucking. — Stephen King

I have only one way to blow the steam off, i make money, you spend money thats funny,now i'm smilling like thats honey — Mohlalefi J Motsima

The whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail. — M.C. Beaton

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Can you feel the steam heat coming from my undercarriage? — Melissa M

Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o'clocks in one day. — Terry Pratchett

When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power. — Alex Berenson

Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine. — Sara Coleridge

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov

...Cupid, who never shoots with a surer aim than through the steam of boarding-house hash, sniped him where he sat. — P.G. Wodehouse

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine. — Ada Lovelace

Wisps of steam like spectral maggots rose from their damp coats in the inn's fuggyheat — Kevin Barry

Billy Pilgrim, there in the creekbed, thought he, Billy Pilgrim, was turning to steam painlessly. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Steam was rising weirdly from his clothes. His hangover was visible. It heaved itself to his shoulders and sat there like a bag of wet cement. — Markus Zusak

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. — John Moody

There is less chance of people taking to violence if they are able to let out steam. Generally, only people who keep boiling inside take to violence. — B. Raman

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

She'd get out of the shower the next morning, and it would be written in the steam on the mirror.
Dance. Dress. Try a little tenderness. — Rainbow Rowell

On the coldest day of winter, I wouldn't give you the steam off my shit — Edward Lee

Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing. — Brownie Wise

My mom bought me this amazing baby-food maker, the Beaba. I steam and puree fruits and vegetables, and they last for, like, four days. — Kourtney Kardashian

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body. — Karl Kraus

This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next. — Michelle Moran

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam. — Austin O'Malley

Once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry. — Charles Stross

I don't trust her father than I can run full-steam in a corset. — Libba Bray

CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG ... NAW EAT NO YAM ... NO STEAM FISH ... NOR NO GREEN BANANA
BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA.. — Sean Paul

The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. — Hans Christian Von Baeyer

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

Going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for dinner. — Ray Bradbury

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more. — Henry Austin Dobson

That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light. — Neal A. Maxwell

Willpower is steam for life's locomotion. — Praveen Kumar

My husband asked for the separation and I supported it. We had struggled to keep it going, but obviously we'd both run out of steam. — Princess Diana

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

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress. — Henry David Thoreau

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. — Frank Chodorov

Panting like a marathon runner at mile twenty, overheated bloodhound, steam engine crawling up the Continental Divide. — Dennis Vickers

When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope. — P.G. Wodehouse

How exactly does a steam-powered gun turret differentiate between friend and foe? I wasn't aware that boiled water could form allegiances. — Yahtzee Croshaw

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. — Charles Baudelaire

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown. — Sharon Olds

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown. — Lykke Li

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man. — Andrew Carnegie

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.' — Nina Arianda

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. — Solange Knowles

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. — Ray Bradbury

I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me. — Catherynne M Valente

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Under Marxism] Christ the Redeemer is replaced by the steam engine as the promise of the realm to come. — Eric Voegelin

The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the real world drips its way in. — Terry Pratchett

He proposed a steam-powered pneumatic tube system to carry telegraph forms the short distance from the Stock Exchange to the main telegraph office. — Tom Standage

I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing. — E. Nesbit

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. — Albert Einstein

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss. — Frank McCourt

Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over. — Amy Hempel

Same result, only I'd be steam-cooked instead of roasted. — Jim Butcher

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