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Orville Wright Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: inventor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 19, 1871 - January 30, 1948

Topics

Life Men Feet End Picture Camera

'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.

Jesse Andrews

Power Myself Me World Better Help

It is the passion inside me that means I keep going. I love what I do, and I think I am lucky to do it. When I am riding a quiet country road, I hear the birds singing and think, 'I am in my office now.'

Jens Voigt

Love Passion Keep Going I Am Singing

I try to squeeze in a workout whenever I can, even if it's doing squats with my 7-month-old in the kitchen or jumping on the trampoline with my 5-year-old.

Jennie Finch

Kitchen Doing I Can Try Jumping

From my position, obviously I want to maximise my potential and go as far as I can go and as high as I can go, but I'm not chasing fame. I get enough of that.

Andre Ward

Potential Enough I Can Go Fame Want

There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.

Andre Dubus III

Beautiful Experience Me Cold Deep

I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.

Robert Smith

Job Habit Travel I Am People World

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Robert Palmer

Architecture Trying Difficult Dancing

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Jeanne Moreau

Alone Beach Sun Solitude Go Embrace

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

Jeb Bush

Today Time Challenges World Think

I hate when people eat food and talk with their mouth full. I always cover my mouth when I eat, but I've had it where there's little bologna bits flying on your food.

Jeff Baena

Food Hate People Flying Mouth Talk

Education is very important, and I understand that.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Education Important Understand Very

We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'

Rob Portman

Leadership You Congress Tax Know