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

  Offering, Bird, Literature

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• 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

  Three, Today, Driven

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• 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

  Progress, Electric Current, Enthusiasm

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• 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

  Taken, Together, Events

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

  W. Clement Stone

  Motivational, Electric Current, Enthusiasm

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• 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

  Airplane, Electric Motors, Safety

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• 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

  Flying, Feelings, Machines

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• 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

  Air, Giving, Water

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• 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

  Airplane, Vegas, Gambling

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

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• 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

  People, Littles, Toys

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• 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

  Angel, Air, Flying

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• 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

  Taken, Aviation, Flight

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• 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

  Girl, Simple, Garden

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.239, Macmillan

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• 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

  Song, Eye, Dark

  Song: Five Miles Out

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Faithful

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• 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

  Wall, Lying, Flower

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

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• 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

  War, Heart, Airplane

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

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• 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

  Compassion, Sight, Feet

  "Trust me, being sacked isn't all bad". Daily Telegraph, December 2, 2004.

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