#akin

One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet. ↗

— Orville Wright

#camera #end #feet #had #height

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. ↗

— Orville Wright

#already #been #even #first #flight

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture. ↗

— Peter Wright

#breathing #equivalent #experiment #find #i

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it? ↗

— Peter Wright

#colour #flooding #front #going #i

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny. ↗

— Steven Wright

#making #penny #put #someone #somewhere

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#base #companies #customer #customer base #hold

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#afraid #businesses #everybody #except #government

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. ↗

— Xenocrates

#i #never #often #speaking #tongue

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#give #identity #israeli #must #often

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#am #cannot #considered #convinced #europe