Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic

William Hazlitt

A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth.

William Davis

How many people, how many of us want to get on an airplane where you know only, only 20% of the pilots use the checklist? Why would you do that? I think we should be outraged because the technology is there, it's totally available. We're just not using it yet.

Wendell Willkie

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

Wendell Willkie

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

Wendell Berry

We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.

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

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.

Joseph Farah

Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Kevin Johnson

From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane.

Ralph Richardson

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

Lincoln Kirstein

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

Liam Hemsworth

I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives.

Laura Brown

But we agree with the NTSB that if we eliminated the thrust- reverser calculation, it would be an extra margin of safety. Airport capacity and airline efficiency are important, but safety is the most important thing.