Lilienthal Quotes

#1. It must not remain our desire only to acquire the art of the bird," Lilienthal had written. "It is our duty not to rest until we have attained a perfect scientific conception of the problem of flight.

David McCullough

#2. Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.

H.G.Wells

#3. We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

Otto Lilienthal

#4. Stories are like genies ... They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do.
Our stories can set us free ... When we set them free.

Francesca Lia Block

#5. I think actions really do define how you feel, as opposed to just saying, "I care about you" or "I want to be with you."

Charlyne Yi

#6. Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts of human life will follow in the wake of this new knowledge.

David Lilienthal

#7. It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.

David Lilienthal

#8. We keep saying, 'We have no other course.' What we should say is: 'We are not bright enough to see any other course.'

David Lilienthal

#9. I knew I'd never get enough of her. She was straight out of hell.

Gil Brewer

#10. Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled.

Pearl Zhu

#11. Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

David Lilienthal

#12. No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

Otto Lilienthal

#13. Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.

H.P. Lovecraft

#14. Small sacrifices must be made.

Otto Lilienthal

#15. Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

David Lilienthal

#16. To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

Otto Lilienthal

#17. The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

David Lilienthal

#18. And I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing
is so ridiculous
that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?

Charles Bukowski

#19. Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.

Candice Olson

#20. So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.

Mark Boal

#21. The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

David Lilienthal

#22. I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

E.B. White

#23. All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

Otto Lilienthal

#24. You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Geraldine Brooks

#25. I didn't know how lonely I was," he said as we bowed, "until I had you on my side.

Jessica Cluess

#26. Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.

David Lilienthal