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.

Alexandra Paul

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

Alexandra Paul

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

Alexandra Paul

The cars we drive say a lot about us.

Itzhak Perlman

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

Israel Horovitz

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

Richard Rogers

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

Richard Rogers

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

Richard P. Feynman

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Robert Kazinsky

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.

Carol Bartz

My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.

Kathy Hendricks

On their first date, they drove to the top of Lookout Mountain. For years she kept the red hat she wore on that date.

Clint Bowyer

I got sideways but Kyle (Busch) pretty much drove right through me. What goes around comes around.

Jeremy Paxton

I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

David Ludwig

(She) told the defendant that she wanted to stay with him, and they drove west with the intent to 'get as far away as possible, get married, and start a new life,'

Dennis Dinsmore

She drove away from there. That was the last time she was seen. She did not return to her home on Hall Way.

W. C. Fields

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

David Axelrod

We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm somebody's ex-wife, and I did things that drove him nuts. And now I'm somebody's girlfriend, for many years, and I've got different things that drive him nuts.

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

Derrick Byars

Man, I looked up at the clock, was that right? That was kind of weird too, looking up there and seeing they only had 30.

Sandra Lerner

My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Jason Terry

When I looked at the mistakes I made in the playoffs, it was more because I was indecisive. This year, I'll be more deliberate, more assertive.

Dustin Moskovitz

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Jack Baldwin

From our angle, you couldn't tell if it was going to make it to the net or not. It looked like everything was moving in slow motion.

Vijay Singh

On paper it looked very satisfying but I was very disappointed with the way I played the majors.

Ryan Hamby

On the first catch, Troy kind of looked at me and grinned.

Lupita Nyong'o

I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.

Susan Moores

Nobody ever said no. You just didn't say no to Maria.

John Catsimatidis

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

Jaromir Jagr

Of course, nobody is going to pick us.

Allen Funt

No, nobody ever really turned the tables on me.

Limor Livnat

I feel shame for what he said. Those are things that nobody should think or ... speak about,

James L. Petigru

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

Mary Lyon

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

Bonnie Clearwater

When we showed them, nobody cared. Most of them didn't even have galleries.

Bob Stern

New things popping up -- and something nobody thought about 30 years ago.

Jerry Nelson

Of all the times you get a wrong number or a prank call, I was wishing it was a prank.

David Macdonald

No one has any idea where they are getting their numbers from.

Telyshia Adams

No, no, I thought it was going to take me a while. I said that I wanted to score the number on my jersey, but I didn't think I was going to be able to do it tonight. Not at all.

Nathan Brookwood

Multi-core is the new megahertz. If you want more performance rather than ramping up the megahertz, now it's all about ramping up the number of cores.

Diane Glossman

Morgan's numbers were outstanding. It was all trading.

Ben Edwards

Numbers can give you a ... sense of the organization, but they can't give you the whole sense,

Bud Selig

Number one, let me say that the program we have is working, ... There's no question about that.

Rick Burch

Number one is we don't have day jobs. And something that stems from that is we're able to get together more often.

Russ Howard

Number one by a mile, baby. No question.

Daddy Yankee

I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

Charles Caleb Colton

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Buffalo Bill

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

Beatrix Potter

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

Billy Joel

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

Ally Carter

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

Christopher Paolini

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

Peter Brimelow

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Dick Van Dyke

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Edsger Dijkstra

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Abdul Kalam

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

Aaron Eckhart

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

Maxim Afinogenov

If we play like we did today we'll do good.

Greg Taylor

I don't get up and think today is going to be 'the' day they find something. I get up every day and think that 'someday' they will find something.

Charles Spurgeon

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

Dick Van Dyke

My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing ...

Dominic West

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

David Bowie

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

David Bowie

I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

Dave Pelzer

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

David Neeleman

Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

Levance Fields

Of course, I'll be ready. I think I could have done it this year if Carl hadn't come back.

Cory Sarich

One year I had about 14 different returns. That's a lot of signatures when it comes time.

Jose Theodore

Obviously, this year I didn't play up to my level, but the year's not over yet.

Chris Evans

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Charles Spurgeon

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Charles Spurgeon

In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Dick Van Dyke

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.