Steam Quotes - Page 10

• It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Rain, Kissing, Oxygen

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• And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.

  Conor Oberst

  Loneliness, Sleep, Thinking

  "Song: "Poison Oak" ("I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning ")". January 25, 2005.

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• 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.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Independent, Thinking, Race

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”

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• The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Powerful, Men, Wheels

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• I stretch in the morning a lot and I do a lot of saunas and steam rooms during fashion week just to keep my blood flowing.

  Gigi Hadid

  Fashion, Morning, Blood

  "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.

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• 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!

  Paul Prudhomme

  Mother, Blue, Danger

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• Ian Baird is dashing around like a steam roller up front.

  Martin Tyler

  Football, Commentators, Dashing

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• This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of the need to blow some steam off?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Blow, Emotional

  "A Conservative History of the United States" by Jack Hitt, www.newyorker.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Civilization, Tables, Sin

  Journaux Intimes "Mon CoeurMis a Nu" no. 59 (1887)

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• 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.

  Eric Massa

  Mother, Children, Son

  "The Democrat Party is a Gulag". "The Rush Limbaugh show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. Mar 8, 2010.

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• Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Leisure, Vacuums

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.834, ShandonPress

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

  Sara Coleridge

  Soul, Use, Life Is

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.164

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• Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Food, Breathe, Consolation

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• The hollows are heavy and dank
  With the steam of the Goldenrods.

  Bayard Taylor

  Heavy, Dank, Goldenrod

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.152

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• When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department, I'll tell him, 'Count your blessings; you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!

  Richard J. Needham

  Running, Sex, Men

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• Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope that anything that could be said in books would work a cure. If the floors of boarding-houses, and the decks of steam-boats, and the carpets of the Capitol, do not sicken the Americans into a reform; if the warnings of physicians are of no avail, what remains to be said? I dismiss the nauseous subject.

  Harriet Martineau

  Book, Practice, House

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.200

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• The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Land, Lightning

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• the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

  M.C. Beaton

  Distance, Vision, Sound

  M. C. Beaton (2016). “Introducing Hamish Macbeth: Mysteries #1-3: Death of a Gossip, Death of a Cad, and Death of an Outsider Omnibus”, p.293, Hachette UK

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• I dont ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close them.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Makeup, Water, Faces

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• The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Engineering, Practice, Transition

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Winter, Color, Soup

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• The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some 'substance' by Spinoza. The personal aspect (Sakara) of that Being is termed 'Ishvara' or Allah, Hari, Jehova, Father in Heaven, Buddha, Siva, etc. Just as vapour or steam is formless, so also God is formless in His unmanifested or transcendental state.

  Sivananda

  Father, Heaven, Substance

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• [After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris]
  [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

  Henry Adams

  Art, Paris, World

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• Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
  Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
  Are little events that have come to pass
  Since the days of the old regime.
  And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
  I'd give--though it might seem bold--
  A hundred years of the Golden Age
  For a year of the Age of Gold.

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh

  Years, Giving, Age

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.28

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