Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our goal is to put an aircraft to respond anywhere in the impact area within 20 minutes. Either a rotary wing or fixed wing aircraft. We're set. We're positioned.

Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were aquatic, because water is so conductive. But it doesn't work on land - air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.

Brian Nelson

Our first and gravest priority is simply to ensure that no other Marine is asked to give his life until this aircraft is safe and until it is determined to be ready for the Marine Corps' mission,

Christopher Bailey

Overall, the building is in very good shape: the air conditioning is functioning, and the roof is good. The athletic areas just need to be set up, and offices need to be reconfigured.

Overall sales and earnings growth were below our expectations, reflecting performance issues as well as delays of commercial space launches and military aircraft deliveries from 1998 into 1999.

Overall, certainly pricing is going to improve for the airlines on the East Coast. We certainly look at it as a revenue positive.

Over 100 million people in the United States live in areas that exceed the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone. Elevated concentrations of ozone are also a growing concern for rapidly developing nations with rising levels of ozone from expanding transportation networks.

Mark McFarland

Our vision for the airport is that it will remain primarily a general aviation facility with some commercial passenger activity. Its role will not change.

Our U.S. Air Force customer and our Congress want to have a competition. That's what we at Boeing are prepared to do.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

Beck

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

We've talked to lots of people who were at the hotel and nobody was questioned -- either there or at the airport or when they got back to Thunder Bay.

We need a major stepping-up of air assets in a dramatic sense. We need those who can provide 5 or 10 helicopters at a time rather than those who can bring in one here and one there.

We need a break. We're fatigued as a team, and we're hurting. We had more kids in the training room than in practice (Monday). It'll be kind of like a breath of fresh air to have a weekend off.

James Williams

Well, about five years ago, when I was invited to the Pentagon, they were still saying that, only 1.5% of the male pilots in the Air Force were black - and they still had a problem with some of the instructors saying blacks were not qualified to fly - blacks didn't have enough brains to fly. I mean, that was existing five years ago.

Catullus

The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.

Cecelia Ahern

There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

Ashley Tisdale

I grew up on movies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun. You probably saw it more recently, but as a kid I grew up on them so I loved those kinds of movies.

Arnold Rothstein

Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.

Bill Vaughan

The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.

Richard Gephardt

It is a weekly, and now daily, drumbeat of rollbacks of hard-fought and hard-won progress to protect the air and the water and the wilderness and the environment of this country, ... This is the most alarming rollback in environmental efforts that we have ever seen.

Nancy Reagan

It is an honor and a pleasure for me to help welcome Spirit of Ronald Reagan to its new home at March Air Reserve Base, in the heart of my husband's beloved California.

It is an economic analysis, but the problem is that there's also an ego factor at many airlines. That's when a CEO says something like we need to have a presence in the Denver-to-London market even if it loses money because everyone else has it. I can't tell you how many times I've seen that. It's one of the biggest mistakes an airline can make.

Dick Vermeil

I think there is an air of championship urgency.

I think there's some anxiety, but I don't think it's unhealthy. More people make it a little more tense at times, but I think it benefits the viewer. Getting on the air depends on how good your story is.

I think sometimes the air gets sucked out of the room by something I've written. It's actually beyond silence.

Just as air inside our homes and workplaces is often much more polluted than the air outside, so sitting in a new car can expose you to levels of toxic emissions many times beyond (health guideline) goals,

David Walton

Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.

Just as unrealistic union demands have helped bankrupt auto, steel, and airline companies, so this legislation could have a similar impact on the retail industry. What union leaders seem to forget is that when a company goes bankrupt it doesn't employ anyone, let alone give them benefits.

Vijay Mallya

Jet may buy Air Sahara and I am not interested.

Last week, the Bush administration announced devastating new regulations that will gut clean air laws -- allowing power plants to avoid installing simple anti-pollution equipment when they modernize,