Steam Quotes

• 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

  Lying, Civilization, Doe

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• Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Business, Water

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 20, 2013

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• When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

  George William Russell

  Running, Men, Rivals

  "The School as a Home for the Mind : Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue" by Arthur L. Costa, (p. 91), 2007.

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• Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Science, Vegetarianism

  "The wonder of Chekhov" by James Lasdun, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Tombstone, Sky

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• Willpower is steam for life's locomotion.

  Praveen Kumar

  Willpower

  Praveen Kumar “Celestial Glow”, AUTHOR

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• Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.

  Brownie Wise

  Water, Hot, Necks

  "Sales Speech: Eat Your P’s If You Want to Grow Rich" by Peter Bennett, www.laverneonline.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Years, Stronger

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• Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

  L. Frank Baum

  Reality, Talking, Imagination

  BookCaps, L. Frank Baum (2016). “The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)”, p.1645, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Medicine, Political

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.

  R. G. LeTourneau

  Running, Poor, Steam Engines

  R. G. LeTourneau (2009). “Mover of Men and Mountains”, p.36, Moody Publishers

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• My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.

  Chris Pratt

  Blow, Way, My Favorite

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

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• ... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Get Up, Inertia

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• The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of the floating leaf freighted with its cargo of atmospheric dust; and the flying balloon is but the infant's soap-bubble lightly laden and overgrown. But the Telescope, even in its most elementary form, embodies a novel and gigantic idea, without an analogue in nature, and without a prototype in experience

  John Timbs

  Nature, Science, Simple

  John Timbs (2012). “Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts”, p.212, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.

  Archimedes

  Beautiful, Discovery, Broken

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• Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.

  James Nasmyth

  Russia, Hammers, England

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.221, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

  James Bryant Conant

  Advancement, Development, Littles

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• Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Power, Weight

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Science, Steam Engines, Accounts

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• The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.

  Richard Farson

  Leadership, Eye, Ideas

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• Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.

  Mason Cooley

  Wall, Water, Alive

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• God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivation, War, Ambition

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• The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Determination, Powerful, War

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that every track I did had to be a some progressive sample masterpiece. It was nice to blow off steam and work on those songs. For me, that’s what 'The Outsider' was about in general: forget everything, I’m just gonna follow my own music, and make the music I want to make.

  DJ Shadow

  Song, Fun, Nice

  FaceBook post by DJ Shadow from Mar 06, 2015

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• A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Pieces, Filled

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.116, Penguin

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