Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Branch

I actually got reprimanded by Stevie Nicks, who was like, 'You're sharing too much! You need to leave an air of mystery.

Michael P. Anderson

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

Michael Ondaatje

He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.

Michael Dowd

Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

Ray Bradbury

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

Randy Newman

I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.

Eric Bolling

Here's the thing: We have plenty of time. These are cockroaches and we want to kill them all. They're just absolute pieces of garbage and we will get them. So why don't we try the air campaign first?

Empedocles

But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.

Emo Philips

I thought I was raptured up into the air today; turns out, it was just my gas oven exploding.

Terry Riley

The danger is not so much in an assault or robbery at the airport, but an airport is a good place for the thieves to target their victims.

The idea is to make it like an airport or an international border crossing, but this takes time.

The hotel, built in 1902, has always been on the cutting edge of guest comfort and social awareness. It was the first leading hotel in New York to receive ladies traveling alone, and the first to have electronic door locks, smoke detectors and air conditioning in all of its rooms. The Algonquin is an extraordinary hotel, and our goal is to live up to its past and further enhance its legend.

(The Cavaliers) are executing very well, and their pitchers are doing a very good job of keeping our hitters off balance. Give them credit for what they are doing. We are hitting a lot of balls in the air and not putting pressure on their defense.

The flip-side of that though is if you create value, you create value. And I think we're showing that you can create a lot of value -- much more than I think people thought -- by putting two airlines together.

The flight operations of all domestic airlines have remained normal throughout most the country.

James Boyd

The flight commander on board the aircraft reported hitting an object on the takeoff run, ... aborted takeoff.

Jacque Fresco

Each system will depend on resources available, not from the bottom up or top down. In other words, if you put 500 passengers in an airplane that's designed to carry 100, it won't get off the ground. So all decisions are made based upon the physical equipment you're working with, or the environmental resources available. They're not made by Fresco or any other person. They're arrived at by studies and research.

Jacque Fresco

As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.

Henry A. Wallace

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

Henry Adams

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

Henry A. Kissinger

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

Helmut Jahn

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

Henry David Thoreau

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

Mary Szybist

Without you my air tastes like nothing. For you I hold my breath.

Plato

Music is to the mind as air is to the body...

Philip Larkin

And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

Martin Schulz

It was a Russian airplane that was bombed over the Sinai Peninsula. When the Russians conduct air strikes on IS, they are doing so because they too are threatened by terror.

Lech Walesa

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

Laurie R. King

Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?

Laini Taylor

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

Lisa Snowdon

I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.

Lisa Kleypas

I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air.