Otto Lilienthal Quotes

The difficulty of rising into the air increases rapidly with the size of the apparatus. The uplifting of a single person, therefore, is more easily attained than that of a large flying machine loaded with several persons.

Otto Lilienthal

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• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Brain
  • Air
  • Body

• Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Air
  • Japanese
  • Group

• The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Single
  • Ideas
  • Yourself

• I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • America
  • Sick

• Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Air

• 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
  • Air
  • End
  • Rose

• I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one of them and eagerly anticipate them.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • She
  • Book
  • Single

• Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Change
  • Single
  • Motherhood

• Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Place
  • Dead

• There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Control

• What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Done
  • Perfect

• 'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Air
  • Loved
  • Lipstick

• Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Single

• Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Opportunity
  • Single
  • Training

• I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Single

• Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Law
  • Single

• A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Music
  • Words

• Without electricity, the air would rot.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Air
  • Without
  • Electricity

• There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Single
  • Idea

• I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Attention
  • Single
  • Eye

• As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.

  

  David M. Brown
  • World
  • Good
  • Pretty

• True readers … are ready to go through a whole volume, if there be but hope of finding in it a single genuine thought or the mere suggestion even of a truth which has some fresh application to life.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life
  • Truth
  • True

• I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise To fly.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Fighting
  • Winning
  • Fly

• The difficulty of rising into the air increases rapidly with the size of the apparatus. The uplifting of a single person, therefore, is more easily attained than that of a large flying machine loaded with several persons.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • Single
  • Air
  • Flying