Quotes About Flying Machines

#1. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Lord Kelvin

#2. For more than fifty years, or long before the Wright brothers took up their part, would-be "conquerors of the air" and their strange or childish flying machines, as described in the press, had served as a continuous source of popular comic relief.

David McCullough

#3. I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

Bill Gates

#4. A time when the miracles of technology were still virile and exciting: steam engines and flying machines, not smart phones and cosmetic surgery. When there were still wildernesses left to explore and mountains left unclimbed

Ben Elton

#5. Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground

James Taylor

#6. Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

Neil Armstrong

#7. The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

Wilbur Wright

#8. I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

Edward Abbey

#9. You call this progress, because you have motor cars and telephones and flying machines and a thousand potions to make you smell better? And people sleeping on the streets?

Howard Zinn

#10. A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.

Nostradamus

#11. Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms - such things do exist. They're called books.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

Alexander Graham Bell

#13. Everywhere the poems open.

Mary Kinzie

#14. But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

Rebecca Stead

#15. By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone ... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.

Max Nordau

#16. Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It's important for people, for human beings, to be in space because they're adaptable and because they're not pre-programmed software that can go off and do tasks that are appropriate for machines.

Alan G. Poindexter

#17. Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.

Neil Armstrong

#18. Happy is the woman who can laugh at herself. She will never cease to be amused.

Charlene Vermeulen

#19. The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and moving-wing machines. And it will be a flying boat.

Oliver Stewart

#20. Genius since the world began; from the era of the Egyptians and

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.

John Ortberg

#22. The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.

Ross Perot

#23. The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

Walter E. Williams

#24. He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
[On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir