#years

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 busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. ↗

— Steven Wright

#bad #bad luck #busted #five #get

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. ↗

— Wilbur Wright

#confess #fifty #fly #i #man

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#clinics #experience #help #i #legal

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#over #pages #rift #thousand #took

And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#around #bandwagon #be different #come #deal

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did. ↗

— Roy Wood

#band #before #did #gone #i

I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#car keys #drove #everyone #got #i

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#bob #carl #confirm #former #go

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years. ↗

— Albert Wynn

#assault #aware #engage #gang #important