Hargrave Quotes

#1. If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

Octave Chanute

#2. Each of us carries the map of our lives on our skin, in the way we walk, even in the way we grow.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

#3. The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

Lawrence Hargrave

#4. I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

Salman Rushdie

#5. The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.

Lawrence Hargrave

#6. Total silence would be better. Total silence I could get used to.

Amy Reed

#7. Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

Lawrence Hargrave

#8. He narrowed his eyes. 'Are you comparing me to Mr Collins?' As he recalled it, that man's courtships had been hasty and ludicrous.

Laughter lit up Kate's face. 'Of course not.

Emily May

#9. The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder.

Lawrence Hargrave

#10. Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,
but to make them beautifu

Coco Chanel

#11. And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

Lawrence Hargrave

#12. The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.

Lawrence Hargrave

#13. Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

Lawrence Hargrave

#14. People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.

Frederick Lenz

#15. It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

Lawrence Hargrave

#16. India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

#17. As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards.

Lawrence Hargrave

#18. God kills a kitten every time a girl
masturbates. Save a kitten - sleep
with me."

- Caine Deathwalker

Morgan Blayde

#19. They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

#20. Both slaves had been oiled until their flesh shined like polished ebony, outlining every detail of their muscles.

Myra Hargrave McIlvain

#21. The rumors are lies. There were a lot of people said we're not going to play that we don't have a contract ... We got it worked out got it hammered out.

Ron Hargrave

#22. If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.

Lawrence Hargrave

#23. Latifah says don't stress too much though. She says if I'm patient, inshaaAllah, we'll all be together in Jannah.
I laughed when she said that. I mean, I know it sounds weird, butt i'd never thought of Paradise as something to really look forward to.
But I do now.

Umm Zakiyyah

#24. If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy

Milan Kundera

#25. To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

Lawrence Hargrave

#26. Experience means nothing unless you're paying attention.

Stephen Smoke

#27. The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened.

Lawrence Hargrave

#28. The long-term pain suffered by suppressing emotions is far greater than the short-term pain of confronting them.

Sam Owen

#29. Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.

Lawrence Hargrave

#30. Believe in God, it's only one God. F*** all that religion s***. Believe in one God, and do right. Try your best to do right, we ain't perfect. Just do that and everything will be straight,

Kendrick Lamar

#31. Try and avoid people who use the word "cant" regularly associate rather with those who say "can" and do

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman