Langewiesche Quotes

#1. Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly?

Wolfgang Langewiesche

#2. I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

Rahm Emanuel

#3. I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

Doc Watson

#4. To know all is to despise all.

Robertson Davies

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place - and still be home in time to have dinner.

Mary Pope Osborne

#8. Our way of eating and producing food can be very violent, to other species, to our own bodies, and to the Earth. Or our way of growing, distributing, and eating food can be part of creating a larger healing. We get to choose. The

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

William Langewiesche

#10. I do like my sugar at night, but I try to keep it to a minimum.

Art Alexakis

#11. Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

William Langewiesche

#13. Flying is done largely with the imagination.

Wolfgang Langewiesche

#14. Christendom, as an effect, must be accounted for. It is too large for a mortal cause.

Frederic Dan Huntington

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

William Langewiesche

#16. Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

Whitey Herzog

#17. A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments ... At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.

Wolfgang Langewiesche

#18. I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.

Spike Lee

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

William Langewiesche

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

William Langewiesche

#21. 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

#22. At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

Hunter S. Thompson

#23. What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people.

Victor Hugo

#24. Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings.

Wolfgang Langewiesche