Francois Laurent D Arlandes Inspirational Quotes (2)

I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle they might well have reassured themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me - You are doing nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom.

If you look at the river in that fashion you will be likely to bathe in it soon, cried Rozier. Some fire, my dear friend, some fire!