Dirigible Quotes

#1. There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible balloon or flying machine, or both, for commercial transportation or as weapons of war.

George W. Melville

#2. To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.

Alberto Santos-Dumont

#3. It was their vampire teacher's custom of late to administer decidedly oddball lessons. Which is to say, more oddball than an ordinary lesson with a vampire in a floating dirigible espionage school.

Gail Carriger

#4. I shot him a broad smile, a smile wide enough to present him with a good view of the wire braces that caged my teeth. Although they gave me the look of a dirigible with the skin off, Father always liked being reminded that he was getting his money's worth.

Alan Bradley

#5. The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.

Cathleen Schine

#6. The dirigible came to rest as lightly as a butterfly on an egg, if the butterfly were to stumble a bit and list heavily to one side and the egg to take on the peculiar characteristics of Scotland in winter: more soggy and more gray than one would think possible.

Gail Carriger

#7. Before all this has time to end the golden age must return with its vengeance. Man will become dirigible ...

James Joyce

#8. Three hand-painted signs had been tacked to a broken-down gate. The first read,
THE QUIBBLER. EDITOR: X. LOVEGOOD
The second,
PICK YOUR OWN MISTLETOE
The third,
KEEP OFF THE DIRIGIBLE PLUMS

J.K. Rowling

#9. Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.

Gail Carriger

#11. There's a drinking game in Heaven, where angels do a shot every time humans invest "for the long term.

Johnny B. Truant

#12. I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

Khalil Gibran

#13. If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#14. We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.

Terence McKenna

#15. If others think I am nuts, naive, gullible, and not living in the real world, that's all right, too... I'll gladly stay in what some have called my fictitious world, my happy and peaceful world, a world full of signs of hope.

Ward Foley

#16. A lot of what acting is paying attention.

Nancy Reagan