Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Coulter

There were precisely two groups of people who desperately wanted airport security to be browbeaten into giving suspicious passengers a pass: terrorists and Democrats.

We are not offering it or marketing it, but we are having discussions with airlines about it to see whether it's a marketable airplane.

Linus Roache

In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

James Gleick

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

Laura Esquivel

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

Jason Katims

I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.

When you win that many games in a row, you go in there with the idea that you've seen it all, been there and done that. You have a confident air about you, and you feel that there's nobody out there who can change what you do.

When fuel prices are so high, there's no way Airbus can price an inefficient airplane attractively for customers.

Nancy Gibbs

I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.

Nancy Gibbs

Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

Nikola Tesla

I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me.

Nikola Tesla

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

Kim Delaney

Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.

Nikki Reed

If I'm getting on an airplane or anywhere, really, I have a lunch box and stuff. It's a running joke with my friends and family - everyone gives me lunch boxes for Christmas.

Preity Zinta

My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and after that, I went through everything from wanting to be a Prime Minister to an air hostess, but never an actor. So I became one, and it was a great journey. I learnt a lot, worked very hard.

Cynthia Ozick

Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way.

Casey Wilson

At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that I had to get a wheelchair at the airport to go on my honeymoon.

Douglas Brinkley

It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.

Paul Hawken

Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship.

We are currently the third-most profitable airline in the world despite being ranked 32nd in terms of most passengers carried.

Chris White

We are continuing to work with the airport and our hope is they will come into full compliance with our regulations.

was that it would save myself, my family and the Air Force and everyone that is involved in this case, including Airman Zigo, the embarrassment.

was in the process of assembling an army of attorneys, economists and IAM representatives with a wealth of airline bankruptcy experience and resources to ensure our members are treated fairly and their rights protected both in the courtroom and at the bargaining table.

A. E. Housman

Tomorrow, more's the pity, / Away we both must hie, To air the ditty / and to earth I.

William Burroughs

We are like water creatures looking up at the land and air and wondering how we can survive in that alien medium. The water we live in is Time. That alien medium we glimpse beyond time is Space. And that is where we are going.

We are known for consistently low fares, and the response to our new low- fare service between Missouri and Dallas Love Field has been terrific. We are saying thank you to our Customers for responding to this new freedom in Dallas air travel.

Sam Smith

We recognize that there's controversy with this and we'll certainly air that out.

We recognize that both counties have strained budgets. He brings with him a background in economics, a background in finance. The key here is to find other sources of revenue so the burden on the taxpayer is reduced and the airport grows in exciting new ways. And to let the community see how essential the services are that many don't see every day.

Wolfgang Ketterle

When air is hot, the molecules move fast and they have high kinetic energy. The colder the molecules are, the smaller their velocities are and, subsequently, their energy. Temperature is simply a way to characterize the energy of a system.

The park lies directly downwind from a slew of coal plants. Virtually all of the major contaminants in the local air and water are direct results of coal emissions. Coal produces ozone, which kills trees. Coal produces sulfates, which kill fish. No other park in the country has more ozone or sulfates than Shenandoah National Park.

It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.

On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.

Anita Desai

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.