Quotes About Gyroscope

A gyroscope kept the torpedo on course, adjusting for vertical and horizontal deflection. The track lingered on the surface like a long pale scar. In maritime vernacular, this trail of fading disturbance, whether from ship or torpedo, was called a "dead wake.

In other words, just as the cerebellum had long been known to act as a kind of gyroscope or balancer of gait and movement, he explained, "so does it regulate the speed, capacity, consistency, and appropriateness of cognition and emotional processes.

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

The circle of gleaming green numbers on the black face of the gyroscope compass ticked steadily counterclockwise and the heading increased: 95 degrees, 100, 105, 120, 150. Queeg

Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

It has memory's ear that can hear without having to hear. Like the gyroscope's fall, truly unequivocal because trued by regnant certainty, it is a power of strong enchantment. It is like the dove- neck animated by sun; it is memory's eye; it's conscientious inconsistency.

Like most nobility, he was self-centered as a gyroscope,

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.