Quotes About Tilting

If you're on a plane and the person in front of you starts slowly tilting to one side, it means he's letting out a fart. Take cover!

It is only with very large masses indeed that light-cone tilting can be directly observed; whereas its actual presence in very tiny amounts in bodies as small as specks of dust is a clear-cut implication of Einstein's theory.

The I-495 bridge over the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware, is tilting.

On the solstice: "The tilting of the earth may very well have stopped at the winter solstice, creaking to a halt and starting back the other way, but I was down in the basement at the time, running a power saw, and didn't hear a thing.

Their lives spun off the tilting world like thread off a spindle, breakfast time, suppertime, lilac time, apple time.

You," Win would tell him, "have a hero complex. You think you can make the world better. You are Don Quixote tilting at windmills." "And you?" "I'm eye candy for the ladies." Win.

Lieutenant Tindall told me I'd find you up here tilting at putrid windmills. Now I know what he meant.

Out of some subway scuttle, cell or loft A bedlamite speeds to thy parapets, Tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning, A jest falls from the speechless caravan.

When donors hold views we detest, we tend to see them as unfairly tilting policy debates with their money. Yet when we like their causes, we often view them as heroically stepping forward to level the playing field against powerful special interests or backward public majorities.

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

When people's well-being depends on hitting certain numbers, they get very interested in tilting the odds in their favor.