The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. Votes: 6
Peter SingerThe only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. Votes: 6
Phyllis DillerRemember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing. Votes: 5
Brownie WiseDesire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success. Votes: 4
Zig ZiglarFear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going. Votes: 4
Rachel WeiszSteam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonReading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. Votes: 0
Melvil DeweyThe railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship Votes: 0
John MoodyScience owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. Votes: 0
Lawrence Joseph HendersonElectricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyEven the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science. Votes: 0
James Bryant ConantThere is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinTurner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy. Votes: 0
John ConstableI drink coffee like steam is the ghost of dead water. Ever tried inhaling the afterlife? Votes: 0
Jarod KintzThe steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleI drink coffee like steam is the ghost of dead water. Ever tried inhaling the afterlife~? Votes: 0
Jarod KintzPoets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown. Votes: 0
Sharon OldsLet the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. Votes: 0
Conor OberstNervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam. Votes: 0
Nathaniel HawthorneHis most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonI was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. Votes: 0
Mark HaddonThe rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire. Votes: 0
Sally RideA man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisWe made love like steam meets mist. My memory is foggy, but I know I inhaled her essence like smoke. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzFreedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerThe Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. Votes: 6 Peter Singer
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: 4 George William Russell