Steam Cracking

Famous quotes containing the words steam and/or cracking:

    “A steam ran small and terrible and shrill;
    it was so still;
    the stream ran from the oak-copse
    and returned and ran
    back into shadow.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Hume’s doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot; the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)