Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Billings

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

Karl Kraus

Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.

Karl Kraus

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

Karl Lagerfeld

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

Kathryn Harrison

The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.

Kathy Acker

Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.

Julie Murphy

For as long as I could push air in and out of my chest, I would remember this moment that could never be measured.

Julian Fellowes

I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

Margot Robbie

I love flying so much. I even airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can't have emails go through. It's undisturbed.

Paul Theroux

Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

Haruki Murakami

I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

John Clare

Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

Luis Suarez

Gabriel Batistuta. He was a spectacular No 9 - great at finding space, shooting from outside the box, good in the air. He was always a reference for me and I used to watch the way he played.

John Boyd Orr

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

John Amery

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

John Arlott

The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

Michael Collins

You could not invent a more productive place for the city to place its attention. And a conference center may be the trigger that can allow for the infrastructure at the airport to (improve) so that rates can find themselves going higher. We're in the process of examining that right now.

Tom Bergeron

You could feel the air go out of this place when your names were announced.

You could estimate 50 per cent of the aircraft had fallen apart in the sky.

You can watch 'Lost' the day after it airs without paying two bucks.

James Harris

You can't work yourself too hard. You take a break and get in the truck awhile and get some air conditioning. Taking a long lunch helps too.

Bob Hope

You can't say, 'We've got the biggest airport in the world' as a slogan,

You can't operate a global airline like that,

You can only remove so many nuts out of an airplane before it falls out of the sky and crashes.

Frank Zappa

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer

You can't ask for much more the first time you are playing a course in competition, ... It felt a lot like coming to Switzerland in Europe, which is one the places I've always enjoyed going the fresh air in the morning, the nice scenery.

The market for pilots and other airline professionals is soft, and that's an understatement. They played it down to the wire, but there is still hope for Delta, and we will see what happens next few months.

Matt Salmon

I found the source of global warming is coming from the hot air coming out of Washington.

Matthew Arnold

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

Matt Taibbi

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

Maya Angelou

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.