Air Quote by Alberto Santos-Dumont Download Open image “To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.” — Alberto Santos-Dumont ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Air Aviation Balloons Brick wall Bricks Candle Flight Pushing Wall
A balloon is like life one day it is all fine the next day u just wanna POP — Tyler Shaffer Copy Share Image
Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured. — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible balloon or… — George W. Melville Copy Share Image
For a lot of explosions and stuff like that [in Transformers] you're harnessed to something getting swung in the air or dragged onto something… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Remember, these are special balloons. They work quite differently from the ones you are used to. No, these balloons do not take air. ”… — M.P. Kozlowsky Copy Share Image
There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath. — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the word I would always lift my finger very high, as a sign of absolute conviction; and I refused with energy to pay the forfeit. The more they laughed at me, the happier I was, hoping that some day… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share
I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
I will be a tireless advocate for our District's defense priorities including Sheppard Air Force Base, Pantex, Bell Helicopter, universities conducting important research, and… — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United States goes and takes action there on behalf of the Iraqi government. You've got Iran coming in and saying we're going to stand with (Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri) al-Maliki, so now we're aligning ourselves with Iran,… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted,… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image