#steam

Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary playground for adventure, spectacle, drama, escapism and exploration. But most of all it is fun! ↗

— George Mann

#drama

Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is. ↗

— Mark Hodder

#science-fiction #steampunk #science

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

#ahead #come #full #go #good

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. ↗

— James Buchan

#been #carriages #catastrophic #century #electricity

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

#available #because #bit #clock #day

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

#come #efficient #engines #i #like

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. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#drive #extent #follow #get #good

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

#catastrophe #cause #day #emperor #german

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#important #important things #improved #most #steamships

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#countries #distant #hand #invention #like