Steam Quotes - Page 2

• Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Science, Trying, Invention

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4494, e-artnow

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• People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.

  Will Carling

  Player, People, Important

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• In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

  James Nasmyth

  Mean, Iron, Patents

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.301, BoD – Books on Demand

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• [W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Ocean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.142

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• London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.

  Henry James

  Feet, Red Flags, Cash

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.1036, e-artnow

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• His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.

  Samuel Johnson

  Coffee, Headache, Used

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• I like to do a face steam, so, heat up a flannel, press it onto your face and then press a cold one on afterwards to close the pores. It's inexpensive!

  Georgia May Jagger

  Flannels, Faces, Heat

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• Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar
  Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
  Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
  The flying chariot through the field of air.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Air, Wings, Car

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.22

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• The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour….

  Oliver Evans

  Cities, People, Bird

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• Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.

  Augustus William Hare

  Self, Coal, Pits

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.7

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• The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

  Saint Basil

  Light, Vegetarianism, Meat

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

  Townsend Harris

  Mean, Japan, California

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• Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Science, Important

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Chartism, II

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• Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eye, Men, Dragons

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Tree, Growth

  Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Effort, Acting

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.64, HarperCollins UK

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• I think what i've also learned, is that doing Kickstarter and Steam Early Access before you've got something which is defined and playable is a hugely risky undertaking that can be very destructive to the final quality of the game.

  Peter Molyneux

  Thinking, Games, Quality

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• And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

  Peter Ackroyd

  Smell, Clothes, Creating

  1987 Chatterton, ch.5.

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fire, Demon, Invention

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.52

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• Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fire, Secret

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of frenzied anxiety attacks would descend upon me without warning. My body was possessed by a chaotic, demonic force which led to my shaking, pacing and violently hitting myself across the chest or in the head. This self-flagellation seemed to provide a physical outlet for my invisible torment, as if I were letting steam out of a pressure cooker.

  Douglas Bloch

  Self, Anxiety, Pressure

  Douglas Bloch (1999). “When Going Through Hell...Dont' Stop!: A Survivor's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and Clinical Depression”, p.17, BookBaby

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• 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

  Hair, Twists, Natural

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Safety, Evil, Steam Engines

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• To change our national economic story from one of financial speculation to one of future growth, we need a third industrial revolution: a green revolution. It will transform our economy as surely as the shift from iron to steel, from steam to oil. It will lead us toward a low-carbon future, with cleaner energy and greener growth. With an economy that is built to last - on more sustainable, more stable foundations

  Chris Huhne

  Iron, Oil, Growth

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• 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

  Love, Clean, Individual

  Jo Nesbo (2014). “The Son”, p.505, Random House

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