Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Chris Brown

Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.

Dave Barry

All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.

Dave Barry

...Hell, which as every frequent traveler knows, is in Concourse D of O'Hare Airport.

Caitlin Moran

I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?

Charles M. Schulz

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.

Bill Maher

Sometimes I'm dragging my ass out to the airport at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and I'm wondering why I'm doing this, but once I walk on stage I know why...because I'm addicted.

David Walliams

All human life can be found in an airport.

Carol Leifer

Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.

David Sobel

When this kind of power is used in the regular criminal justice system, there are some built-in checks and balances. The intelligence context provides no such protection. That's the main problem with these kinds of secretive procedures.

Alan Davis

I have a real problem making checks on a place not legally licensed. I recommend it be shut down immediately.

Michael Kidwell

Some credit unions may not offer things like safety deposit boxes, cashier's or certified checks. We've actually had clients who weren't able to get those type of checks from their credit unions.

Lloyd Axworthy

We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances.

Nicky Hilton

I could have just received royalty checks every month by lending my name to a collection, but I didn't want to do that. My name is a reflection of me.

Nick Pollos

We had no energy tonight. We didn't finish checks and we had too many turnovers.

Tom Williams

We did the same thing when people received tax rebate checks back in 2001, and we saw them using the money to shop at Wal-Mart.

Benjamin F. Wade

The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

Henning Mankell

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

James Richardson

Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.

John Donne

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.