Steam Quotes - Page 7

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

  John Constable

  Paint, Masters, Airy

  John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.181, A&C Black

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• 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

  Leadership, Learning, Average

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• By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses.

  Phil Cooke

  Art, Horse, Hands

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• The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.

  Henry Adams

  Power, Sky, Cities

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.487, Booklassic

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• Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Moving, Technology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.419, Harvard University Press

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• Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.

  Albert Pike

  Dark, Blow, Air

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• If it's just a pastime, keep doing it because it's relaxing and to blow off some steam. But if you're not sure if you want to do it, or you're thinking you can be famous, you shouldn't do it because you want to be famous. You have to do it because you love it and you want to play for people. And if that's what you want to do, then do it, but you can't go into it with that mindset of "we'll be in a band and we'll be famous."

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, Blow, Play

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• The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.

  O. Winston Link

  Beautiful, Fire, Together

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• I have a friend who swears by food combinations - have you heard of this nonsense? She's nuts. She's like, 'You know what? You should eat food combinations, and that way you can eat whatever you want. It's just the combinations of how you put the food together.' And then her examples are like, 'You wouldn't want to eat steak and potatoes together, but you could have, like, a lemon rind and raisin skins - not the whole raisin, take the skins and steam them.

  Brian Regan

  Nuts, Skins, Together

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• Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Growing Up, Men, Blow

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.

  Nina Arianda

  Abbey

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• I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.

  Phil Collins

  Night, Voice, Listening

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

  Conor Oberst

  Sleep, Cry, Poet

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• Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.

  Joe Perry

  Powerful, Mean, Band

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• I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.

  Matthew Perry

  Thinking, Guy, Would Be

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• 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

  Mother, Heart, Thinking

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Fall, Pride

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.125, Criss Jami

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• 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

  Dark, Decay, Body

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• The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.

  Ray Bradbury

  Night, Glasses, Mirrors

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• And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.

  Etgar Keret

  Coffee, Missing Him, Men

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

  Daniel Handler

  Popcorn, Window, More Time

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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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• It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it. We're all human. After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a chance to somebody else. And whether you yourself are inclined to stay on, all those around you are pushing you to stay on for what they will gain. One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on...unless you are a king.

  Kofi Annan

  Running, Country, Kings

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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

  Men, Pieces, Complicated

  Andrew Carnegie (1992). “The Andrew Carnegie reader”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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