Quotes About Propellers

#1. No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.

Orville Wright

#2. But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like nothing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. through the hull - the rush of water past a prow, the thrum of propellers.

Erik Larson

#4. There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity ...

Jasper Fforde

#5. In my dream, all of the collapsed ceilings reformed above us. The fire went back into the bombs, which rose up and into the bellies of planes whose propellers turned backward, like the second hands of the clocks across Dresden, only faster.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. 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

#7. You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.

Seth MacFarlane

#8. By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Winston Churchill

#9. The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

Dave Barry

#10. The brain secretes thought as the stomach secretes gastric juice, the liver bile, and the kidneys urine.

Karl Vogt

#11. War doesn't end war any more than a heroin fix ends a heroin addiction.

Ethan Nichtern

#12. It's important to me to just experience as much as possible and to be able to just work and meet new people and have different experiences and have as much knowledge as I can.

Britt Robertson

#13. Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

Fabiola Gianotti

#14. Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it,

Goldie Hawn