Langewiesche Wolfgang Quotes

#1. Flying is done largely with the imagination.

Wolfgang Langewiesche

#2. 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

#3. Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

Elias Canetti

#4. If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.

Rand Paul

#5. You always know when you're going to arrive. If you go by car, you don't. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

Alan Bennett

#6. 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

#7. I know that I myself have felt that prickling of the scalp that Emily Dickinson tells us is the sign of recognition before a true poem.

May Sarton

#8. 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

#9. Popular versurs literary - a false divide?

Kate Atkinson

#10. The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

Chauncey Depew