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“... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.”

Get Up Steam Inertia

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that every track I did had to be a some progressive sample masterpiece. It was nice to blow off steam and work on those songs. For me, that’s what 'The Outsider' was about in general: forget everything, I’m just gonna follow my own music, and make the music I want to make.”

Want Kids Song Fun Realizing My Own Forget Nice Beats Track Blow Burden Stores Progressive Outsiders Masterpiece Candy Steam Sample Forget Everything Candy Stores

Author:DJ Shadow

“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.”

World Environment Air Building Essentials Attributes Apartment Steam Kinship Metropolis

Author:Ross Parmenter

“The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.”

Light Fire Clouds Leap Trails Rockets Steam Pads

Book:To Space & Back

Source: To Space & Back

“As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.”

Thinking Whole Actors Attention Focus Hardest Things To Do Concentration Hardest Thing Parting Steam Time To Think Small Parts Hardest Thing To Do

Author:Colin Baker

“I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.”

Author:Nina Arianda

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

Trying Science Invention Engines Electric Something Better Steam Telegraph Steam Engines

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“[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.”

Humans Science Father Dying Ocean Photograph Invention Pity Estates Our Father Steam Cheated Telegraph Galvanism

Book:Society and Solitude and Other Essays

Source: Society and Solitude and Other Essays

“Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.”

Important Science Wise Ought Bases Statistics Steam

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.”

Mean California Japan Eighteen Steam

Author:Townsend Harris

“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.”

Known Lord England Russia Length Principal Hammers Steam Time Passes Forging

Book:James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

Source: James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

“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.”

Natural Five Hair Showers Twists Steam Natural Hair

Author:Solange Knowles