Montgolfier Brothers Quotes

#1. Upon the occasion of history's first manned flight - in the 1780's aboard the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloons - someone asked Franklin what use he saw in such frivolity. "What use," he replied, "is a newborn baby?

Mary Roach

#2. I've never really been wanted.

John Lennon

#3. Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

E.B. White

#4. If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

Dante Alighieri

#5. There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!"
or something to that effect.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#6. The beautiful result often astonishes us when our mind becomes oblivious to the work done with our heart.

Anuj

#7. You can't really claim too much ownership of your character. They really do belong to the writers, and in many ways, you're just their puppet.

Johnny Galecki

#8. The whole point of a top secret invisible guard," Deathbringer said severely, "is for them to be invisible and secret. Therefore it is extremely unhelpful for certain queens to go pointing them out and discussing them loudly with the entire rainforest.

Tui T. Sutherland

#9. Twice a week we attended a political 'seminar', where we were continually told that we were doing our sacred duty to help make the border totally secure.

Svetlana Alexievich

#10. Have you ever felt like you were searching for something, only you didn't know what it was until you found it?

Lindy Zart

#11. [T]he greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran.

Mitt Romney

#12. We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

Nelson Mandela