Steam Quotes - Page 8

• A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing.

  Lauren Oliver

  Butterfly, Wings, Broken

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.222, Hachette UK

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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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• 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 area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Sweet, Cake, Spoons

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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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• 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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• More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

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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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• 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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• John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.

  Edward Abbey

  Passion, Beer, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

  Charles Babbage

  Math, Wish, Statistics

  Charles Babbage (2013). “On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever command men to fashion the first tools, first use fire, invent the telescope and the steam engine, or compose the Iliad. Cultural values do not arise by direction of higher authorities. They cannot be compelled by dictates nor called into life by the resolution of legislative assemblies.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Fashion, Men, Fire

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• When I know I have a huge shoot, I’ll just go into the sauna and steam out my face. Product-wise, I don’t really do much because I sometimes think products make me break out . I just use normal soap and water and moisturizer. My brows are really important to me but I’ve never plucked or waxed them. I’ll just fill them in with Anastasia brow kit.

  Chanel Iman

  Wise, Thinking, Water

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• In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.

  Ross Parmenter

  Air, Essentials, World

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• The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.

  Sally Ride

  Fire, Clouds, Light

  Sally Ride, Susan Okie (1986). “To Space & Back”

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• As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

  Colin Baker

  Thinking, Focus, Attention

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

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• If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.

  Tamora Pierce

  Running, Fun, Writing

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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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