#steam

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

— Anton Chekhov

#electricity #humanity #justice #love #me

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

— Phyllis Diller

#accidentally #day #enjoyed #ever #gin

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. ↗

— Austin Dobson

#fold #more #nothing #old #ours

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. ↗

— Eric Massa

#devil #end #front #get #his

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. ↗

— John Moody

#originally #railroad #ship #steam

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

— Giorgio Napolitano

#brought #conclusion #constitutional #elections #european

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

#became #been #england #even #forging

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

— Chris Pratt

#favorite #loud #off #shower #sing

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! ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#box #call #certain #certain things #danger