Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodney Dangerfield

I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.

Robert Stack

Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!

Virgil

It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...

Vincent Canby

Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a lot of it is hot air. It's a measure of my mixed feelings about The Empire Strikes Back that I'm not at all sure that I understand the plot. The Empire Strikes Back is about as personal as a Christmas card from a bank.

Will Smith

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

Will Smith

I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible." [On his first season of THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR (1990)]

Warren Buffett

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

Walter Bagehot

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Walter Cronkite

Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.

Virginia Woolf

Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing.

William Blum

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

Wentworth Miller

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

Samuel Richardson

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Samuel Butler

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

Samuel Beckett

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Sally Ride

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

Salman Rushdie

An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.

Salman Rushdie

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

Salman Rushdie

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

Salman Rushdie

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

Salman Rushdie

When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.

Rudolf Steiner

I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.

Virginia Postrel

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

William Cowper

Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.

Ursula K. Le Guin

In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

U Thant

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.

Stephen Colbert

Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that's almost never the case. I'm just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative.

Thomas Harris

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.

Thomas Gray

England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.

Tim Wise

The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey.