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.
Charles Babbage

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.
Townsend Harris

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.
John Mason Good

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.
Clyde Tombaugh

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.
Clyde Tombaugh

I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.
Phil Collins

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

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.
James Nasmyth

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

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
Conor Oberst

Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.
John Ericsson

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

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

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

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.
John Sexton

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.
Edward Grey

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

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