Orville Wright Quotes

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

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

The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport. ~ Orville Wright

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

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them! ~ Orville Wright

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

Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician. ~ Orville Wright

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

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

In no way did any of this discourage or deter Wilbur and Orville Wright, any more than the fact that they had had no college education, no formal technical training, no experience working with anyone other than themselves, no friends in high places, no financial backers, no government subsidies, and little money of their own. Or ~ David McCullough

In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced success with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world. ~ Charles A. Lindbergh

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building. ~ Orville Wright

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

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

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

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

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

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

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall. ~ Orville Wright

I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit . ~ Steven Wright

What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How would the comment section on YouTube change if, to use it, you had to have the schooling necessary to have a basic understanding of how computers and the internet work? More seriously, would anyone smart enough to know how to design and build a tank, or a laser guided anti-aircraft missile, or a computer and video editing software be stupid enough to join ISIS? In fact, if such knowledge was required - would it even be possible for there to be standing armies? ~ John C. Wright

I'm not impressed by your money or what you have. ~ Monica Wright

I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish. ~ Steven Wright

Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten. ~ Frances Wright

The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. ~ Steven Wright

If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules - since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but simply of death itself, seen from a different angle. ~ N. T. Wright

(When someone asked Augustine what God was doing before creation, he replied that God was making hell for people who ask silly questions.) ~ N. T. Wright

When God looks at sin, what he sees is what a violin maker would see if the player were to use his lovely creation as a tennis racquet. ~ Tom Wright

[Men] are incomprehensible animals... They walk about boasting of their wisdom, strength, and sovereignty, while they have not sense so much as to swallow an apple with the aid of an Eve to put it down their throats. ~ Frances Wright

I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small! ~ Steven Wright

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command. ~ Orville Dewey

My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another. ~ N. T. Wright

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done. ~ Steven Wright

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life. ~ Julia McNair Wright

He turned them into real-life versions of an M. C. Escher drawing, automating them to the rafters, with blinking lights on aisles and shelves to guide human workers to the right products, and conveyor belts that ran into and out of massive machines, called Crisplants, that took products from the conveyors and scanned and sorted them into customer orders to be packaged and shipped. These facilities, Wright decreed, would be called not warehouses but distribution centers, as they were in Walmart's internal lexicon. ~ Brad Stone

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem. ~ Richard Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about ~ N. T. Wright

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity. ~ Gary Wright

Shades of a new morning standing still are worse than the shades of night. At least a person can understand the dark of night. It's not fickle like the day. ~ Sarah E. Wright

The reason history is fascinating is because people in other times and places are so like us. The reason history is difficult is because people in other times and places are so different from us. History is, to that extent, like marriage, ~ N. T. Wright

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light. ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie

Christ,Syn," said another male."You are out of your fucking mind."
"That's right,Frosty;" Synjon said against Petra's ear."Mad as a hatter. ~ Laura Wright

Just lying in my big bed with Frette sheets. Oh my god, there's nothing better. ~ Robin Wright

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

My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them. ~ Steven Wright

It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the political and the civil rights, we wouldn't go anywhere. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

I knew that I had to be a preacher. I had to be a minister, which was a puzzle to me because my dad was a businessman. It was a family company and I assumed that I would take it on from him. ~ N. T. Wright

Across the road, tadpoles are dancing on the quarter thumbnail of the moon. They cant see, not yet. ~ James Wright

Suddenly Dominic's expression turned impish, and she knew one of his cheesy lines was coming. He cocked his head at Ivy. "Screw me if I'm wrong, but haven't we met before? ~ Suzanne Wright

The meaning of the story is found in every detail, as well as in the broad narrative. The pain and tears of all the years were met together on Calvary. The sorrow of heaven joined with the anguish of earth; the forgiving love stored up in God's future was poured out into the present; the voices that echo in a million human hearts, crying for justice, longing for spirituality, eager for relationship, yearning for beauty, drew themselves together into a final scream of desolation. ~ N. T. Wright

For a species low in male parental investment, the basic dynamic of courtship, as we've seen, is pretty simple: the male really wants sex; the female isn't so sure.7 ~ Robert Wright

We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates. ~ C. Wright Mills

The idea is that human culture as broadly defined
art, politics, technology, religion, and so on
evolves in much the way biological species evolve: new cultural traits arise and may flourish or perish, and as a result whole institutions can belief systems form and change. ~ Robert Wright

Draw: For the most part, a draw occurs when it appears that neither side will win. ~ Kenya Wright

I wanted to try to build a bridge of words between me and that world outside, that world which was so distant and elusive that it seemed unreal. ~ Richard Wright

If you want to know why the "new atheists" like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Atkins sell so many books, the answer is that they're offering the modernist version of the good old-fashioned theological term "assurance." They are assuring anxious ex-believers that the nightmare of small-minded and stultifying "religion" is gone ~ N. T. Wright

While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives. ~ Elizur Wright

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop? ~ Steven Wright

There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests. ~ Jeffrey Wright

Truth is the root of all the charities. ~ Orville Dewey