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.

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.

Aged six, I sailed from South Africa to England by steam ship with my family. It was a three-week journey. I remember crying on my birthday when I didn't get the enormous teddy bear that was for sale in the ship's shop but, aside from that, I had a wonderful time.

To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

"A steampunk nation

A person whose desires and impulses are his own-are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture-is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character?

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

Once a new technology rolls over you if you're not part of the steamroller you're part of the road.

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.

On movies you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam not a stagnant pool.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

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.

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

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

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

I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam you know its just you and nature and no clothing. You know there's nothing separating you. It's just you and the voice - you and the water.

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat the canal boat and the rail car.

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.

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.