Igor Sikorsky Sayings

#1. At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

Igor Sikorsky

#2. I can't tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can't tell you because it never happened. They all adored me."
"It was your humility, wasn't it?

Derek Landy

#3. Gods, that you would have granted me this boon when she wed me and with it gave me one night of this hot, greedy tart rather than the cold, selfish fish you gave me, he muttered, my eyes moved to him and I saw he was speaking to the ceiling in audible prayer.

Kristen Ashley

#4. In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.

Mary Russell Mitford

#5. This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

Igor Sikorsky

#6. I was starting to learn one of the most important lessons of online dating: the wisdom of saying no.

Sarah Hepola

#7. It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.

Igor Sikorsky

#8. Why do we always fight?" she whispered.
"You know why." Yeah, she did. "It's science." "Combustible chemistry," he agreed. "Dangerous.

Jill Shalvis

#9. Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

David Hilbert

#10. Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

Igor Sikorsky

#11. Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.

Igor Sikorsky

#12. My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

Amber Tamblyn

#13. Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

Igor Sikorsky

#14. It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

Igor Sikorsky

#15. I hadn't liked him at first. He did sort of grow on you after a while. Like the cosmopolitans. Or maybe because of the cosmopolitans.

Josh Lanyon

#16. The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Igor Sikorsky

#17. According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.

Igor Sikorsky

#18. It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot,

Igor Sikorsky

#19. For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also changed. There was a new kind of politics to it - something that was very aggressive and dangerous - and a presumption that it would reveal some kind of truth or evidence.

Trevor Paglen

#20. It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

Pierce Brosnan

#21. If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

Igor Sikorsky

#22. The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

Igor Sikorsky

#23. If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

Igor Sikorsky

#24. Don't sell out who you really are to make others happy.

Jo Dee Messina

#25. The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

Igor Sikorsky