Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jay Gould

Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered.

Stephen Jay Gould

Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.

Sophie Kinsella

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.

The organized American air and ground pirates, who even call themselves murderers, are assisting in establishing this Jewish domination.

Alan Mulally

The orders this year are ... an endorsement by the airlines of the world. What's being validated here is the Boeing Commercial Airplanes strategy for the last six years. That's the incredible story of 2005.

The other airlines have not been making significant compromises. United Airlines certainly didn't. It's hard to imagine that Delta would cave, but who knows?

The other airlines by virtue of the bankruptcy court have reduced their labor costs below where ours is today. That represents a competitive problem.

There could be no better time or place for this Welcome Home party than in Las Vegas during our 2005 Centennial celebration, ... Las Vegas is proud of our servicemen and women and equally proud of our veterans. We anticipate a 2005 Veterans Day parade and air show that will go down in the history books.

Nathan Deal

We've heard the argument here now that the FCC is the one that ought to redefine the definition of indecency. Perhaps that is true. I find it objectionable that those who have been granted the free use of our airwaves would not see fit to restrain themselves within their own conduct to define conduct that is less than indecent, that is that which we've heard the use of the words crude, inappropriate.

Two air ambulances are needed for speedy evacuation of the casualties; four mobile hospitals are needed,

We're not planning to air the New Orleans episode. Quite frankly, we just think it may look opportunistic.

Ron Wyden

We're not mandating fluffier pillows or creating a legal right to a bigger bag of peanuts, ... What we're troubled by is that unlike other retail establishments, the airline industry basically keeps you in the dark. Our bill is basically about getting good information and empowering the consumer.

We're not just looking to reduce the noise an aircraft makes but also to change the way it's flown to produce significant noise savings.

We think that is a prelude to them all going in the next game. We try to focus on shooting percentages, not how many shots we miss, and we ended up shooting 37 percent. The reason people gasp for air is that they are point-blank misses. We can probably attribute that to nerves. We did substitute early, trying to get back in our normal breathing pattern.

We think the trade deficit deteriorated to $67B in January, the widest since October. Petroleum imports likely rose by over $1B due to higher prices - up 6.4%. In real terms, imports were probably close to unchanged. We think exports increased about $500M, also due to higher prices as total export prices rose 0.7%. Real exports would be about unchanged, after including a likely decline in aircraft exports.

We think the north side of DFW Airport has done real well on new projects and the south side has not had too many new projects so we anticipate being well received.

We think the drinking water on aircraft is safe to drink and has been.

Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.

This year, the conference is just better. They did what they had to do to earn national respect. They scheduled tough games and they won a lot of them. Even teams in the lower part of the conference, teams like Air Force, really improved their RPI.

Jiang Zemin

This time, in violation of international law and practice, the U.S. plane bumped into our plane, invaded Chinese territorial air space and landed at our airport,

Paul Cellucci

We also have this common border that sees 200 million border crossings a year. And we have trans-boundary water issues and air quality issues.

Brock Yates

To Secretary Pena: Fix your busted airport and leave bikes alone and the commuting to us sociopathic drivers.

We had a discussion and the questions that asked were similar to 'Who is tough?' or 'Who is another team you wouldn't want to play? Air Force provided us with some unique things.

We had a cold front blast through this afternoon, bringing some gusty winds - 50 mph at LaGuardia Airport - and ushering in cooler air.

We had a tragic summer marked by a spate of air crashes that claimed more then 500 lives,

We assume there is a release until we can prove there is not. You go indoors. You turn off your air conditioning, and you stay tuned.

We assume that discussions may occur among the remaining airlines in every possible combination.

Dan Stevens

We believe he was a passenger on board the United Airlines flight. He stated that the plane was being hijacked.

TSA has established a strong, layered system of security in the air cargo arena and recognizes the need to do more,

Trying to put two airlines together from an IT standpoint, there's no way around it--it's ugly, it's expensive, and it takes a long time.

To the average person they have to kind of roll their eyes up and go: What aren't you going to tax, and is air next? When you get right down to it, it's really an emotional scenario for folks.

My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.

Isaac Newton

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.