Alive Quote by Robert Crandall Download Open image “If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.” — Robert Crandall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alive Brothers Today Wright brothers
If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
“Wilbur and Orville were rapacious misanthropes who were all too happy to stop progress in its tracks by stifling brilliant innovators, particularly Curtiss, all… — Lawrence Goldstone Copy Share Image
Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?" — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“The Wright-Curtiss feud persists to the present day as a proxy war—historians of early flight tend to deify one and demonize the other. Either the Wrights were brilliant visionaries and honest toilers attempting ward off the incursions of those, particularly Curtiss, who stole their ideas and even perhaps improved on them, but refused to acknowledge their debt in word or… — Lawrence Goldstone Copy Share
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one hundred seconds, the Wright brothers demonstrated that a heavier-than-air,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
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
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I bet if there were death panels, its members would take Grandparents Day off. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.' — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money, — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
[Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back… — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American,… — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat. — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough. — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate… — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full… — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the… — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary. — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive. — James Haven Copy Share Image
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image