Wilbur And Orville Quotes

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

Dave Barry

#3. I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.

Ogden Nash

#4. When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.

Dan Rather

#5. 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

#6. Live counterculturally when the culture, baptized or secular, does not affirm truth, love, faith, mercy, and justice.

Sarah Bessey

#7. 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

#8. She is a treasure greater than anything else I have won.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.

Gordon Bethune

#10. Nature ... is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.

Robert Hooke

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

Robert Crandall

#12. CHAPTER 64 Stubb's Supper

Herman Melville

#13. 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

#14. I think 'Rather Be' is an amazingly written pop song with incredible production.

Jess Glynne

#15. Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

Eli Broad

#16. I have always looked up to my brothers. They are a huge influence on me. We constantly text and Facebook each other to give each other support. And we all hang out at home when we are in town together.

Lexi Thompson

#17. It's good to see a kid that
young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

Jorge Posada

#18. In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.

Terence Stamp

#19. 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

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

Herb Kelleher