Quotes About Wilbur Wright

#1. If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio. WILBUR WRIGHT

David McCullough

#2. The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

Henry Adams

#3. Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game.

Dolph Schayes

#4. No bird soars in a calm. WILBUR WRIGHT

David McCullough

#5. It is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911

David McCullough

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

Robert Crandall

#7. I was a fool for ever thinking I could live with letting you be the one who got away.

Melissa Cutler

#8. I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

Alan Moore

#9. Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Scott Adams

#10. It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Wilbur Wright

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

Walter Jon Williams

#14. More than anything else, the sensation [of flying] is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost - if you can conceive of such a combination.

Wilbur Wright

#15. 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

#16. The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked ... Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?

Shaquille O'Neal

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

Wilbur Wright

#18. No bird can soar in a calm.

Wilbur Wright

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

Dave Barry

#20. I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

Wilbur Wright

#21. This house is always going to be quiet now, I should get used to it. Laughter will no longer run rampant through the hallways, decorating each room.

Kimberly Russell

#22. 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

#23. But things are so bad, I feel like I'm going to explode if I don't do something.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#24. In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

T. S. Eliot

#25. I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

Ben Stiller

#26. We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wilbur Wright

#27. By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course of human progress. If he had not lived the entire history of progress in flying would have been other than it has been.

Wilbur Wright

#28. The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who ... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space ... on the infinite highway of the air.

Wilbur Wright

#29. I Don't Have Time For Both A Wife And An Airplane.

Wilbur Wright

#30. 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

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

Herb Kelleher

#32. Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Wilbur Wright

#33. I don't know who you are, but I want to let you know that I really care.

Debasish Mridha