Quotes About Orville Wright

#1. The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power. Signed Wilbur and Orville Wright, March 12, 1906.

David McCullough

#2. Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"

Red Buttons

#3. This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

Dave Barry

#4. Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

Jonathan Winters

#5. If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.

Robert Crandall

#6. Sometimtes you don't even know what you really want until you get what you thought you wanted.

Debbie Viguie

#7. The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

Charles Kingsley

#8. One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.

Orville Wright

#9. Family: a safe place to commit crimes. - K Yearwood

Kathleen Yearwood

#10. We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.

Orville Wright

#11. We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

Orville Wright

#12. To Wrench the human soul from its moorings, to immerse it in terrors, ice, flames, and raptures to such an extent that it is liberated from all petty displeasure, gloom and depression as by a flash of lightening: what paths lead to this goal? And which of them do so most surely?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Orville Wright

#14. When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.

Orville Wright

#15. The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

Orville Wright

#16. With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

Orville Wright

#17. Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.

Orville Wright

#18. We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

Orville Wright

#19. No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Orville Wright

#20. We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.

Orville Wright

#21. If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

#22. If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

Herb Kelleher

#23. One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you ... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never really experiencing anything fully. It can cause you to feel like you have no center, like nothing is grounding you.

Sheryl Crow

#24. His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

Angela Carter

#25. In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Orville Wright

#26. I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Harry Markowitz

#27. In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

Orville Wright

#28. I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why so many soldiers come from working-class - rather than middle- or high-income families. Those wealthier families aren't affected, so they're not agitating for change.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#29. The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

Orville Wright

#30. No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.

Orville Wright

#31. With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

Orville Wright

#32. Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

Peter Schjeldahl

#33. The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

Orville Wright

#34. You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.

Susan Orlean

#35. Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

Orville Wright

#36. When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.

Orville Wright

#37. Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Diane Paulus

#38. I love both my parents dearly.

Kevin Eubanks

#39. I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Two years later we ourselves made flights. This demonstration of my impotence as a prophet gave me such a shock that ever since I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions.

Wilbur Wright