Turbine Quotes

#1. They lined you up in kindergarten, alphabetically. On fourth-grade field trips you took your partner's hand to push past the musk ox or the steam turbine. School was a perpetual lineup, ending in this final one.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#2. Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did it necessitate the sombre and monotonous dirge of software, priority banking or turbine building.

Anita Nair

#3. Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas? (On Man Ray's first photograms, 1921.)

Tristan Tzara

#4. If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

Shepard Fairey

#5. I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

John Sexton

#6. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.

Nikola Tesla

#7. In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country.

Michael Burgess

#8. Can I assume the excrement has encountered the turbine?

Owen R. O'Neill

#9. Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Walter Benjamin

#10. Total war uses every conceivable means toward the end of national self-preservation. Everything is right and permitted that serves the cause of one's own people.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#11. The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.

Elisabeth Elliot

#12. Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

Jason Chaffetz

#13. If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

Edward Albee

#14. Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. I write music with an exclamation point!

Richard Wagner

#16. There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

Will Rogers

#17. The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#18. Most families are destroyed from the inside, because they allow themselves to be conquered by others from the outside.

Carlton Young

#19. I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.

Haruki Murakami

#20. the tall white windmills that came to her mind. How their skinny long arms all turned, but never together, except for just once in a while two of them would be turning the same way, their arms poised at the same place in the sky.

Elizabeth Strout

#21. One hat, one hatter. - Millinery Code

Frank Beddor

#22. Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

Ru Freeman

#23. You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Paul Cleave

#24. We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.

Katharine Hayhoe

#25. The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

Barbara De Angelis