Famous Steampunk Quotes

#1. We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

Hannah More

#2. Incompetents invariably made trouble for people other than themselves.

Larry McMurtry

#3. Hell was never God's intention. It is man's invention. It is a human-manufactured religious icon, no less idolatrous than deifying a statue.

Carlton D. Pearson

#4. Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#5. I'd wasted too much time over the past twelve months considering how bad my life could get, but as I sat alone in the deserted hospital corridor, my very worst fears had never felt more real. Pete was fighting for his life, and there was every chance he could lose.

Garrett Leigh

#6. They really cut to the chase in the urologist's examination room, and I tried to laugh. If this office were a movie, it would have been rated R.

Mike Birbiglia

#7. If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

Marshall McLuhan

#8. Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Dorothea Brande