Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at Langley. Between World War I and World War II, they did just tremendous amount of fundamental research into basically making airplanes safer, making them more stable.
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LINDA BOZZO I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It ... JOHN GLENN Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training... R. W. APPLE, JR. I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after ... CLINT EASTWOOD During the discussion, we were talking about World War II. It triggered memories about the war and w... DARLA MYERS I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War... CELINE BUCKENS America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa... SAM KEAN A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World ... ROBERT DALLEK Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, a... REBECCA SOLNIT I don't know why in the world they got Vietnam and Korean war memorials up, and they didn't have any... EILEEN MEADORS Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you tra... NOAM CHOMSKY World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing. DAVID AYER DFW Airport is a huge airport, ... Four terminal buildings. We need a tremendous amount of infrastru... JEFF FEGAN I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War... CELINE BUCKENS Baby boomers get credited with changing society, but I would think the gentlemen who fought in World... CHARLES GALLAGHER There are diverse opinions around the world. Yes, I even hear my countrymen say that when America wa... ALFONSO NUNZIANTE I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. GEORGE MCGOVERN Today, 90 percent of them are World War II veterans, now in their 80s. 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TOM HANKS I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried. DON RICKLES Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don... VAL KILMER World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good ... KEN FOLLETT I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say ... BOB FELLER We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about t... GEORGE WALD Every second we are making choices/thoughts & basically they are either positive or negative. The ke... WILLIAM PAISLEY I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to inst... HENRY KRAVIS How is that making the border safer? When did you ever see a Mexican blow up the World Trade Center?... DAVID GONZALEZ And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that... ALAN SHEPARD He came from the mines to the navy in World War II, you know these people came up in a time when you... BOB DAVIDSON Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our f... RICK ATKINSON I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people maki... JASON KATIMS Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi... ROBERT KENNEDY World War II was the last government program that really worked. GEORGE WILL World War II was the last government program that really worked. GEORGE F. WILL When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It w... ANG LEE Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much mor... MONICA CROWLEY [Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean tried to turn around the World War II argument.]... HOWARD DEAN Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of W... ADOLF GALLAND It's a very important part of the 20th century and World War II. LARRY WILCOX I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo... HAROLD PINTER World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and milita... NEIL SHEEHAN There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting r... BOB FELLER My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II... AL PACINO The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to th... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world. STEPHEN KINZER I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans. MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a... JOHN SAYLES That's a first. The Guard can't claim that (level of combat) for World War II or World War I ? the o... LES MELNYK His influence and his work and his testimonial about the real world, especially war veterans, was in... CHARLES FIGLEY No one had officially thanked World War II vets. It took over 50 years for Washington, D.C., to come... JOE GIRARD No one had officially thanked World War II vets. It took over 50 years for Washington, D.C., to come... JOE GIRARD It's basically an anti-war monument. It's about raging against the military/industrial complex. Soci... GREG KELLEY Since [Pink Floyd's] The Wall, this has never been done. A third of the movie is CGI, a third of the... TOM DELONGE I believe that the most tragic war of our time is the one within—a war between what we knew as chi... VIRONIKA TUGALEVA He wasn't in World War II and neither was his speech writer. DAVID GRAHAM The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States in... PETER L. BERGEN The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very... DAVID PETRAEUS When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ... B. B. KING In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. Th... YITZHAK SHAMIR I just thought about the impact she was making on me. Then, it took more of a global perspective. To... KRISTINA MATARAZZO You can't celebrate World War I year after year after year, because there are other events taking pl... LLOYD BROWN I didn't want to just go from memory. So I did research, getting Emily Post books and making notes. ... ELAINE SWANN I love the challenge of taking colors that are totally disparate and making them work together in an... CHRIS BENZ When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself be... ANDREW GRANATELLI Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Justice, as it turned out, was a lot harder than war. War was largely a series of technical question... BRIAN STAVELEY World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole. BARRY COMMONER the most horrendous, unimaginable war crimes committed in Europe since the end of World War II. RATKO MLADIC If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World Wa... CHRISTIAN LACROIX Each and every day I will assure you of one thing -- I will dedicate myself to making Canada more un... STEPHEN HARPER In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron... HERBIE HANCOCK The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those ... LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE Our human experience, like the World War II Ultra code-breaking machine, catches the heavy traffic o... EUGENE KENNEDY World War II has continued well after it was 'finished' LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individu... HENRY FLYNT Each plane was making two or three missions a day. Some of them were just terrible. They were gettin... DOLORIA CHAPIN World War II was the last 'pure' war. It was purely heroic. There was someone who tried to c... MORTEN TYLDUM The destruction of Manila was one of the greatest tragedies of World War II. Of all the allied capit... WILLIAM MANCHESTER
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AILEEN LEE There's a McDonald's in the Louvre. LEE RADZIWILL I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d... AMY LEE Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil... LEE HANEY I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy. AMY LEE I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh... TANITH LEE I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people. TANITH LEE I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don... TANITH LEE I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Ma... TANITH LEE At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa... TANITH LEE No one is ever ordinary. TANITH LEE I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e... TANITH LEE I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen. TANITH LEE When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it. TANITH LEE As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev... TANITH LEE Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. TANITH LEE I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it. TANITH LEE I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ... TANITH LEE If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i... TANITH LEE The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis. TANITH LEE People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b... TANITH LEE It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ... TANITH LEE Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them.... TANITH LEE I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. A... TANITH LEE Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio... TANITH LEE Pirates have always fascinated me. TANITH LEE I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d... TANITH LEE There is too little courtship in the world. VERNON LEE The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. VERNON LEE Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa... HARPER LEE