William Langewiesche Quotes

#1. The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

William Langewiesche

#2. Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.

William Langewiesche

#3. Intelligence is not a prerequisite for safe flying, but an acceptance of human fallibility is, and the two are generally linked.

William Langewiesche

#4. Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours

William Langewiesche

#5. So much of who we are is where we have been.

William Langewiesche

#6. You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

William Langewiesche

#7. Do not regret the passing if the camel and the caravan. The Sahara has changed, but it remains a desert without compromise, the world in its extreme. There is no place as dry and hot and hostile.

William Langewiesche

#8. I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

William Langewiesche