Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Gray

Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! / Confusion on thy banners wait; / Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing, / They mock the air with idle state.

Paul Greengrass

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

Pamela Moore

Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to live? Under the water or something, coming up only to say 'I beg your pardon if I disturb you by coming up for air. I'll do my best to remain submerged.'

Julia Quinn

Is there anything else I can do to see to your comfort, Miss Trent?" Perriwick inquired. "She's fine," Blake growled. "Clearly, she--" "Perriwick, isn't the west wing on fire?" Perriwick blinked, sniffed the air, and stared at his employer in dismay. "I do not understand sir.

Julia Quinn

When you walk into a room,” he said softly, “the air changes.

Juan Williams

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If more people rode bikes and less people drove cars, the air would be in better shape and people would be in better shape.

Leonardo da Vinci

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

Leonardo da Vinci

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

Paul Reubens

I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.

Patrick Rothfuss

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.

Patrick Rothfuss

On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand, One blood in a flowing band, One was air all whisper thin, And the ring of ice had a flaw within. Full faintly shone the ring of flame, And the final ring was without name.

Parker Stevenson

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

Paloma Picasso

Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.

Natasha Lyonne

The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.

Muhammad Ali

Superman don't need no seat belt.

Mikhail Lermontov

Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

Mark Z. Jacobson

A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world’s needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ... [T]he obstacles are primarily political, not technical.

Mark Kennedy

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Marianne Faithfull

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life

Neil Armstrong

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

Neil Armstrong

I tell you, we're going to be busy for a minute.

Mithun Chakraborty

Dance India Dance is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

Mitt Romney

Mr. President, you’re entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts.

Nelson DeMille

I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.

Nevil Shute

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

Noam Chomsky

It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.

John Armstrong

Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.

Joey Logano

I enjoy doing autograph sessions because I'm a people-watcher. I'm the guy in the airport who likes to just sit and watch people go by. So I enjoy just meeting people and hearing their stories.

There's virtually nothing to stop the cold air from off of Hudson Bay from flowing down across the midlands. So you get good contrast: the warm air coming up -- the cold air coming down -- and where they meet is your typical frontal location.