Otto Lilienthal Quotes

The sailing flight of birds is the only form of flight which is carried on for some length of time without the expenditure of power.

Otto Lilienthal

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• Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Better
  • Environmental
  • Fuel

• I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Life
  • Different
  • Why

• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Audience
  • United States

• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Anger
  • Ice

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Control
  • Admit
  • Freak

• I eat a lot of chocolate.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Chocolate
  • Eat
  • Lot

• I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Performer

• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Defense
  • Logical
  • Implement

• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

  

  Ouida
  • Friends
  • See
  • Goodbye

• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

  Yuna
  • Racism
  • Generations
  • Fairness

• My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Like

• The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • American
  • Law
  • Government

• So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • House
  • Parents
  • Myself

• The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Best
  • Yourself
  • Golf

• My parents are nice people, and they also made a point to have dinner as a family every night.

  

  David Einhorn
  • People
  • Family
  • Night

• I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I've always enjoyed it. There's just something really, really funny about someone tearing into me.

  

  John Mulaney
  • Fun
  • Funny

• I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.

  

  Chris Benz
  • Together
  • Quality
  • Humorous

• I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Focus

• Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

  

  Elisabeth Shue
  • Weird
  • Hamlet

• The sailing flight of birds is the only form of flight which is carried on for some length of time without the expenditure of power.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • Time
  • Power
  • Sailing