William Langewiesche Quotes

#1. The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

William Langewiesche

#2. Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.

William Langewiesche

#3. She now knew that it was possible to love two people at once - because you could love them in different ways.

L.J.Smith

#4. Intelligence is not a prerequisite for safe flying, but an acceptance of human fallibility is, and the two are generally linked.

William Langewiesche

#5. Every individual should, by nature, have his extraordinary points. But nowadays, you may look for them with a microscope, they are so worn-down by the regular machine-friction of our average and mechanical days.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours

William Langewiesche

#7. So much of who we are is where we have been.

William Langewiesche

#8. General Fatigue stalked in, & a Major-General,
Captain Fatigue, and at the base of all
pale Corporal Fatigue,
and curious microbes came, came viruses:
and the Court conferred on Henry, and conferred on Henry
the rare Order of Weak.

John Berryman

#9. Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.

Hilaire Belloc

#10. You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

William Langewiesche

#11. I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and on days when the clock stopped and all of humanity fit into a little chapel, into a pinecone, a shot of ouzo, a snail's shell, a piece of soggy rye on the pavement.

Mary Ruefle

#12. Do not regret the passing if the camel and the caravan. The Sahara has changed, but it remains a desert without compromise, the world in its extreme. There is no place as dry and hot and hostile.

William Langewiesche

#13. I met you, you were timid and frightened of everything and everyone. You made the proverbial church mouse look like a happy hooker.

Anonymous

#14. I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

William Langewiesche