A Quote by Octave Chanute

All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

Octave Chanute

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Agreed Air Delightful Sensation

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Octave Chanute
American - Engineer
February 18, 1832 - November 23, 1910

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.

Arthur Dove

That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

Stella Gibbons

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

Janet Burroway

November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.

Anne Bosworth Greene

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

John Milton

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

Annie Dillard

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

Bob Ney

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

Pierre Loti

The sensation of flying is incredible, and its such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.

Ellen McLaughlin

The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.

Ellen McLaughlin

If you're thousands of feet up with just a thin piece of webbing that you're standing on, it's really a sensation of being at one with the air.

Dean Potter

It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.

Ian Bogost

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.