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