Jules Verne Steam

Famous quotes containing the words verne and/or steam:

“When the cat’s away, the rats dance on the table.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.

“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)