Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Clowes

Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.

Cynthia Heimel

Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.

Cory Lidle

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

Cory Lidle

The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.

Cory Lidle

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

Cory Doctorow

I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a no-fly list. I figured this stuff out by looking at the web and by thinking about it. If I can do it, terrorists can do it. They told us they took away our freedom to make us safe. Do you feel safe?

Duke Snider

We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

Andre Holland

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

Ang Lee

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

Anais Nin

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.

Anais Nin

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

Chuck Palahniuk

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

Chuck Palahniuk

I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.

Chuck Klosterman

Sometimes I wonder what will be the air conditioning of my dying days. What thing will they add that will make it impossible to be uncomfortable? Because I do assume that as an old person, I will be very comfortable. There will be something - a drug or some way to impact the air around me - that when I relax, I'm gonna feel great. So I do look forward to that.

Christopher Paolini

Don't defoul the air. It ill becomes you. - Oromis

Anne Bronte

And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.

Anne Rice

Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat

Andre Leon Talley

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

Alice Hoffman

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

Amanda Bennett

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

Amanda Bynes

To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.

Aeschylus

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

Norman Schwarzkopf

The day we executed the air campaign, I said, "we gotcha!

Phil Angelides

The controller and the governor should join me in putting a halt to new financing until new air and water standards are in place.

The fact that this cold air is coming in the early part of March is quite remarkable. It is fairly late in the season. It is pushing the envelope on the weather we get in this area.

The fact that the plane crashed and was not shot down is proven by data from flight recorders and the ammunition checks made on the F-16s ... An explosion in the air would have spread the wreckage over a much wider area,

The expected drop in aircraft orders is strictly month-to- month noise and does not have any impact on the outlook for growth.

B. F. Skinner

What we tried to do here was make sure, where possible, that every state that has an Air Guard unit continues to have an Air Guard unit, and we were pretty successful.

E. M. Forster

I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.

Douglas Rushkoff

Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

Doug Liman

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.