William Langewiesche Quotes & Sayings

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?" — William Langewiesche

Intelligence is not a prerequisite for safe flying, but an acceptance of human fallibility is, and the two are generally linked. — William Langewiesche

So much of who we are is where we have been. — William Langewiesche

I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery. — William Langewiesche

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small. — William Langewiesche

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst. — William Langewiesche

Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way. — William Langewiesche

Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours — William Langewiesche

Do not regret the passing if the camel and the caravan. The Sahara has changed, but it remains a desert without compromise, the world in its extreme. There is no place as dry and hot and hostile. — William Langewiesche