William Langewiesche quotes
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“I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"”
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“Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours”
-- William LangewiescheSource : William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon
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“You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.”
-- William LangewiescheSource : William Langewiesche (2011). “Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert”, p.18, Vintage
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“I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.”
-- William LangewiescheSource : William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon
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“Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.”
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“So much of who we are is where we have been.”
-- William LangewiescheSource : William Langewiesche (2011). “Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert”, p.46, Vintage
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“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
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Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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Source : "Discovering the cosmos". Book by R.C. Bless, p. 686, 1996.
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“In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
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“When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.”
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“The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.”
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“Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.”
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