Propeller Quotes:

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

- Norman MacCaig

topic: Offering, Bird, Literature, Propeller

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

- Adolf Galland

topic: Three, Today, Driven, Productions, Propeller

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Progress, Electric Current, Enthusiasm, Propeller

There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats and is going places. And I am comforted.

- Ralph Washington Sockman

topic: Taken, Together, Events, Propeller

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.

- W. Clement Stone

topic: Motivational, Enthusiasm, Speed, Electric Current, Propeller

One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.

- Erich Warsitz

topic: Airplane, Safety, Feelings, Torque, Humming

I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Flying, Feelings, Machines, Flying Machines, Propeller

I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.

- Jules Verne

topic: Air, Giving, Water, Propeller

I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller.

- Henny Youngman

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Airplane, Vegas, Gambling, Propeller

When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

- John Travolta

topic: People, Littles, Toys, Propeller, Stewardess

For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller. Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air. Later when asked what it felt like, I said, "It felt as though angels were pushing".

- Adolf Galland

topic: Angel, Air, Flying, Propulsion, Torque

The fortress inspired a tremendous confidence. It was the only propeller driven aircraft I have flown that was completely viceless; there were no undesirable flight characteristics. The directional stability was excellent and, properly trimmed, the B-17 could be taken off, landed and banked without change of trim.

- James Weldon Johnson

topic: Taken, Aviation, Flight, Propeller

They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find a love none of us could ever be. In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

topic: Girl, Simple, Garden, Propeller, Virgin Suicides

Lost in Static 18 And the storm is closing in now Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell You're a prisoner of the dark sky The propeller blades are still And the evil eye of the hurricane's Coming in now for the kill

- Mike Oldfield

source: Song: Five Miles Out

topic: Song, Eye, Dark, Dark Sky, Evil Eye

To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Submarines, One For Me, Propeller, Stripping, Torpedoes

At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high-pitched zzzzzz that hummed along my skin. I watched their wings shining like bits of chrome in the dark and felt the longing build in my chest. The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my heart down its seam.

- Sue Monk Kidd

source: Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

topic: Wall, Lying, Flower, Chrome, Propeller

Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

- Freeman Dyson

source: "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

topic: War, Heart, Airplane, Cambridge, Keynes

Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.

- Boris Johnson

topic: Compassion, Feet, Sight, Propeller, Six Feet Under