Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Skorstad

Last year, we had to get snow off the airport runway.

Bob Hazel

Secondary airports take years to become successful. You're competing in a world economy with expectations that there will be an airport close to the major business and population center.

Max Winkler

My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport one day, she took out a letter that her therapist wrote, and she read it to me. She and her therapists wrote a letter breaking up with me together.

Henry Isaacson

Next to his family and his friends, the airport was his true love. We owe the new terminal to Stanley; he drove it to completion.

Tom Wolfe

I would vote for Bush if for no other reason than to be at the airport waving off all the people who say they are going to London if he wins again. Someone has got to stay behind.

Spencer Roecker

Free throw shooting was the story of the game. It was a role reversal. The first time we played them (an Airport victory), they missed free throws and we didn't. Tonight was different.

Mike Conway

I don't think any airport in America accomplished in 10 years what we did.

Richard Land

If a geo-restricted cab has a passenger going to the airport and they pick up a passenger (there), I have no problem with that. But during conventions, there's been evenings over there we haven't had more than 14 taxicabs come over there (to the convention center). That's what really set me off about doing something.

David K. Shipler

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

Tim Wise

There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial biases and stereotypes and, to some extent, we've internalized them, because that's so ubiquitous. That's why I'm so bored with the conversation about who's a racist and who's not.

Wren Elhai

We acknowledge that we're not getting the full picture, but at least we get close. We acknowledge our biases and try to work past them.

Keith Stanfield

I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.

Alan Wallace

The existence of biases hurts recruiting. Intentionally overlooking some things just because you want to promote certain kids.

Allen Wallace

The existence of biases hurts recruiting ... intentionally overlooking some things just because you want to promote certain kids.

Billy Beane

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.

Geoff Mulgan

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

Travis Bradberry

When it comes to getting promoted, you want to present yourself in a way that feeds into the biases that bosses have about what makes someone promotable. You're already doing the hard work, so why not frame your effort in such a way that it increases your chances of obtaining the position you want?

and City

Like any member of the family, they managed to ignore the faults.

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Dave Davis

Matt's idea, as it is with all injuries, was to ignore it and it would go away.

Randy Pausch

When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

Bonnie Raitt

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

Neil Innes

Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.

Peter Schuyler

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Denise Martin

We can't ignore new technologies, new information that indicate there are risks.

Hugh Johnson

The one thing you don't want to ignore is the stock market itself,

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.