Quotes about Steam

Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard. Votes: 6

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. Votes: 6

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. Votes: 6

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing. Votes: 5

Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers Votes: 4

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success. Votes: 4

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going. Votes: 4

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. Votes: 4

I dont ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close them. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.' Votes: 4

One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not stupid. With will you can achieve things. Votes: 4

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow. Votes: 4

It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup. Votes: 4

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world. Votes: 4

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it. Votes: 4

If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine. Votes: 4

It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole in my head and let the steam come out. The steam was getting so high and the pressure was just getting a little bit much for me. Votes: 4

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. Votes: 3

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. Votes: 3

Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Steam rising underneath a canopy of whispering, changing aspens; starlight in the clear, dark night, and wondrous beauty in every direction. If only all could feel this way, to be so captured and enthralled with autumn. Votes: 3

The distributor used to get 10, 12, 14 percent in most cases, but the App Store or Steam - they're taking 30 points. So clearly, they're viewing what they bring to the table in the digital environment to be more valuable than distribution. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city. Votes: 3

The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well. Votes: 3

Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up. Votes: 3

What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it. Votes: 3

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. Votes: 2

My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower. Votes: 2

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. Votes: 2

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that. Votes: 2

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power. Votes: 2

Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside. Votes: 2

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? Votes: 2

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity. Votes: 2

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. Votes: 2

Wrap fish fillets, sliced veggies, and other quick-cooking items inside foil packets with bundles of fresh herbs and throw them directly on the grill; the steam will release the herb's perfume and flavor anything contained inside the pouch. Votes: 2

I lose my temper at home. I try to control my temper at work. Sometimes, if you are under a lot of pressure, you let off some steam, but I also try not to do that because it's unfair to my wife. Votes: 2

When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals. Votes: 2

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little. Votes: 2

When you break a sweat you just feel great. You've got your endorphins going. You feel better. You look better. And if you aren't able to get a workout in, try to find a steam room somewhere. You just look and feel so much better after a sweat. Votes: 2

I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically. Votes: 2

Iranian parents can't stop their children. They're just wild - they want to party, they want their rights, they want to paint, they want to dance. No one can stop these new generations coming. That's why Iran has to open up: it's like a pot full of hot water, vapour and steam. Votes: 2

Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings. Votes: 2

I don't ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close them. Votes: 1

You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft. Votes: 1

Willpower is steam for life's locomotion. Votes: 0

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine. Votes: 0

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.' Votes: 0

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light. Votes: 0

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam. Votes: 0

... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along. Votes: 0

Can you feel the steam heat coming from my undercarriage? Votes: 0

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. Votes: 0

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss. Votes: 0

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam, Votes: 0

Ian Baird is dashing around like a steam roller up front. Votes: 0

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam. Votes: 0

The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods. Votes: 0

There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will. Votes: 0

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. Votes: 0

Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished. Votes: 0

Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive. Votes: 0

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam. Votes: 0

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship Votes: 0

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. Votes: 0

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days. Votes: 0

Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane. Votes: 0

Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive. Votes: 0

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science. Votes: 0

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. Votes: 0

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy. Votes: 0

I drink coffee like steam is the ghost of dead water. Ever tried inhaling the afterlife? Votes: 0

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. Votes: 0

I drink coffee like steam is the ghost of dead water. Ever tried inhaling the afterlife~? Votes: 0

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. Votes: 0

Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point. Votes: 0

I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul. Votes: 0

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown. Votes: 0

I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive. Votes: 0

The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. Votes: 0

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. Votes: 0

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam. Votes: 0

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry. Votes: 0

The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together. Votes: 0

His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee. Votes: 0

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail. Votes: 0

A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces. Votes: 0

I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship. Votes: 0

I just felt like I had run out of steam. I just felt like it was my time. Votes: 0

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. Votes: 0

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. Votes: 0

This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next. Votes: 0

People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax. Votes: 0

The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire. Votes: 0

Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine. Votes: 0

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam. Votes: 0

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint. Votes: 0

We made love like steam meets mist. My memory is foggy, but I know I inhaled her essence like smoke. Votes: 0

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine. Votes: 0

I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list. Votes: 0

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. Votes: 0

Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean. Votes: 0

The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam. Votes: 0

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean. Votes: 0

The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts... Votes: 0

They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off. Votes: 0

I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me. Votes: 0

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature. Votes: 0

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time. Votes: 0

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body. Votes: 0

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor. Votes: 0

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man. Votes: 0

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam. Votes: 0

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress. Votes: 0

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable. Votes: 0

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies. Votes: 0

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. Votes: 0

If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal. Votes: 0

i have only one way to blow the steam off, i make money, you spend money thats funny,now i'm smilling like thats honey:) Votes: 0

Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam Votes: 0

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man. Votes: 0

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Espresso, made by steam expressing finely ground coffee, is rich in flavor and aroma and chlorogenic acids, but not very concentrated at all in caffeine. Votes: 0

My husband asked for the separation and I supported it. We had struggled to keep it going, but obviously we'd both run out of steam. Votes: 0

Step on the moist, pillowsoft earth, walking gingerly aside a weeping steam that calls your name, for it knows how to heal a wounded heart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you want to keep your side dishes warmer than room temperature, consider buying a small steam table for the home, with the Sterno cans underneath. Votes: 0

They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated. Votes: 0

It's the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Votes: 0

Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight of heaven. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I stretch in the morning a lot and I do a lot of saunas and steam rooms during fashion week just to keep my blood flowing. Votes: 0

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding. Votes: 0

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night. Votes: 0

I'm pretty good at indulging myself. I'm about to go travel for a week. I like to get massaged, go into steam rooms. I take care of myself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG.....NAW EAT NO YAM...NO STEAM FISH....NOR NO GREEN BANANA BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA.. Votes: 0

Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives. Votes: 0

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery. Votes: 0

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…. Votes: 0

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient. Votes: 0

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger! Votes: 0

I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my three kids in less than five minutes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for real-time news. That's the equivalent of the steam age. Votes: 0

I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam. Votes: 0

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. Votes: 0

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath. Votes: 0

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My feelings have changed about ballroom dancing because when I am mad I can dance to blow some steam off. Dancing is fun because you can dance to tunes like 'Hit the Road Jack'. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel. Votes: 0

You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others. Votes: 0

A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour taking in that steam, and it saves my life! Votes: 0

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution. Votes: 0

Focusing is the great secret of power. If you want to use your full amount of focus, you must close down all other thought and direct your power of generating mental steam toward one outcome. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal. Votes: 0

One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties. Votes: 0

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign. Votes: 0

The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs above the knee again." Votes: -1