The Wright Brothers Quotes

#1. Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve Jobs that people hate touchscreens.

Jon Acuff

#2. The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

Bill Gates

#3. We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#4. They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane.

Jay Leno

#5. It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it.

Ernest K. Gann

#6. The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Charles Kettering

#7. There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

Buzz Aldrin

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

Robert Crandall

#9. Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

Freeman Dyson

#10. If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

Felix Baumgartner

#11. 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

#12. But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

#13. When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime's view? It weighed on him.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#14. The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

C. Walton Lillehei

#15. There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.

David Letterman

#16. If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.

Larry Walters

#17. On July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, another American born and raised in western Ohio, stepped onto the moon, he carried with him, in tribute to the Wright brothers, a small swatch of the muslin from a wing of their 1903 Flyer.

David McCullough

#18. In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

Bill Engvall

#19. Beware of the man who wants to protect you;
he will protect you from everything but
himself

Erica Jong

#20. The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

Drew Goddard

#21. Con" is short for "confidence game" or "confidence trick." The term comes from the idea that you gain someone's confidence in order to take advantage of them.

Jason Mosberg

#22. Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

Sheldon Richman

#23. You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo
"I Love You," I say, and as I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.

Elizabeth Scott

#24. I don't really put trophies out. I don't keep trophies around my apartment.

Cary Fukunaga

#25. Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.

Lysa TerKeurst

#26. I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.

Baltasar Kormakur

#27. Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us.

Michael Eric Dyson

#28. To be motivated by divine love is to begin to view the world in its brilliant technicolor

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

Gisele Bundchen

#30. I promised myself it would all be okay if I followed three simple rules: Show Up, Be Brave, and Be Kind. No

Glennon Doyle Melton

#31. Death is around every street corner, and some corners are sharper than others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#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. A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

John Gay