Steam Quotes - Page 6

• And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.

  Harlan Ellison

  Country, Ice, Tears

  Drew Ford, Harlan Ellison (2016). “Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny”, p.83, Courier Dover Publications

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• There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a book in the other. It is not a statesman or a god or a war hero who welcomes us to this new world. It is but an ordinary woman lighting the way- a lady offering us the liberty to pursue our dreams if we've the courage to begin.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, War, Book

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, War, Science

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the whole ocean lies before us unexplored remains substantially as true as ever, and will do so though we shovel up the pebbles by steam shovels and carry them off in carloads.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Beach, Children, Lying

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, New York, Powerful

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• I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

  George Eliot

  Heaven, Public Opinion, Belief

  Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.31, Modern Library

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• When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Heart, Secret, Shrinking

  P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.272, Random House

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• I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.

  Shirley Jackson

  Girl, Baby, Morning

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.

  Jack Kerouac

  New York, Crazy, Clouds

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• The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

  Wendell Berry

  Experts, Dimes, Use

  Wendell Berry (2012). “The Long-Legged House”, p.55, Counterpoint Press

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• Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better to thrust it out with great velocity from every pore, with your every action? Let your actions speak your legend. The physical is the manifestation of the spirit. Let your spirit be teeming with fury. Let your strength be unusual and controlled. The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

  Henry Rollins

  Hero, Men, Dust

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• I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood." I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.

  Sherman Alexie

  Country, Girlfriend, Fighting

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.201, Open Road Media

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• I’m really not hungry,” she repeated, lifting the coffee cup and inhaling the fragrant steam before sipping. “Just a few bites,” he cajoled, taking his own place beside her. “You need to keep up your strength for tonight.” She gave him a heated, slumberous look, remembering her fantasy. “Why? Are you planning something special?” “I suppose I am,” he said consideringly. “It’s special every time we make love.

  Linda Howard

  Coffee, Making Love, Special

  Linda Howard (2016). “Loving Evangeline”, p.133, HQN Books

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• Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane.

  J.R. Ward

  Love You, Mirrors, Jane

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.572, Penguin

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• Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

  Bella Pollen

  One Day, Pressure, Cookers

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.264, Pan Macmillan

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• This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.

  Michelle Moran

  Memories, Next, Moments

  Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.664, Broadway Books

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• She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.

  Holly Black

  Fun, Blow, Years

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.

  Raymond Carver

  Daughter, Morning, Nice

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.148, Vintage

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• The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.

  Rick Riordan

  Greek, Together, Parthenon

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• I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Children, Lying, Heart

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• This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.

  Thomas Hardy

  Strong, Sex, Passion

  Thomas Hardy (1874). “Far From the Madding Crowd”, p.467, Henry Holt

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• Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

  Jules Verne

  Thank You, Gratitude, Heart

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.144, Jules Verne

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• Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light.

  Christopher Moore

  Morning, Clouds, Light

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• The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

  Ray Bradbury

  Lunch, Rivers, People

  Ray Bradbury (1967). “Fahrenheit 451”, Simon & Schuster

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• Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

  Gerald Durrell

  Cake, Tea, Rising

  Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell (1996). “The best of Gerald Durrell”, Harpercollins

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