Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose George

Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are treated like cars on roads where there are rules and codes of behavior, and successful, accident-free outcomes depend on everyone respecting them. As on roads, this doesn't always work.

Nick Miller

With the fate of our airline and jobs hanging in the balance, we believe we should return to the table for meaningful negotiations, and not negotiate through e-mail.

With the trouble in the Gulf oil refineries, the airline industry will see pretty high losses in the third quarter,

We're really seeing almost a stealth rally today. Some of the most beaten-down groups of the last few days -- like airlines and retailers -- are seeing gains. But it's not just them. Five out of 10 S&P 500 groups are up at least 1 percent.

William Shakespeare

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

William Shakespeare

Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.

William Shakespeare

Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.

William Shakespeare

Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.

Philip Schultz

I can't remember a time when I stepped into an airport or train station without wishing I were somewhere else, doing almost anything else. Just thinking about traveling gives me the willies. Traveling and dyslexia don't really get along.

Philip Greenspun

The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that they demonstrate they can evacuate an aircraft within 90 seconds, but of course, a lot of stuff that is easy to do in training turns out to be tough in practice.

We do know the current air quality exceeds federal clean air standards. (It) causes a lot of damage when they're in there.

While each region and each airline has its own set of challenges, none are unique and none are insurmountable.

While consumers did go to malls in July, they did so to be in air conditioning but didn't make many purchases.

Without air meds on board, they will not allow us to take patients ... and Charleston is not equipped to keep folks overnight,

David Neeleman

Without a doubt, it's been the events of September 11th and their aftermath. There's never been a more critical time in the airline business.

Billy Donovan

We're blocking more shots than we have in the last several years, but I don't think as a coaching staff we're saying this is a point of emphasis for our defense. We don't want to be a team that's just jumping up in the air trying to block shots because there are a lot of things that happen that are not good if you don't block it. So we just have to be selective.

We have to rectify so many things on offense. We're a high-turnover team now, which is No. 1. Secondly, we're a very poor shooting team from all areas, from 2-point range, 3-point range and the free-throw line. We shoot more air balls now on the perimeter than any team ? I've never seen any NBA team miss as badly as we do.

Yon fluttering little spirit that has been fixed into thy heart, from it the jealousy do I remove, as air from a water-skin.

We estimate that after losing $4 billion pretax in 2005 and $28 billion over the past five years, the U.S. passenger airlines could approach break-even in 2006.

Andy Roddick

We ended up finding these bike air horns. He was on one side of the stadium doing it, I was on the other.

Marion Blakey

We encourage the use of child safety seats in airplanes, ... However, if requiring extra airline tickets forces some families to drive, then we're inadvertently putting too many families at risk.

We encourage our passengers to check in at least three hours before their scheduled flights. We don't want to cause them any inconvenience or delay brought about by the implementation of airport safety and security inspections and procedures.

We're also taking over classical functions like booking, loading, planning. It saves the airlines cost. They don't have to open a bond.

Chris Blackwell

We got back within 10 , then we had two guys miss assignments. From 10, they went back up by 16. That really took the air out of the bubble.

We finally don't have to jump on an airplane and fly 3,000 miles.

We filled up an air mattress and had them sit on that.

We don't have air conditioning, and we don't have a heater we have a boiler. We have no way of turning the air on it's all base on the outside temperature It's been steamy in there and at times gotten into the low 90s. Our own people tell me I like it hot in there, but we don't have the heat on.

We carry out this competitive performance barometer for the airline industry each year,

We are trying to do ground and air patrol to ensure that the problem animals do not cause any havoc and to try to drive the elephants back to the park.

We'll wait until their investigation is over to do our own evaluation on the aircraft and the packages on board.

Richard Grimes

We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state.

We had a lot of structural damage and broken poles, and when you're in a bucket 35 feet in the air and it's windy, repairs take longer than under ideal conditions.

I wasn't begging, just simply telling them if there was a team in this country that epitomized what the NCAA would like to put on the floor with the class and magnitude of this tournament, it's the Air Force Academy. I think they took that to heart. Beyond that, you have to look at the 24-6 record. We did have great wins, despite what the talking heads were telling everyone.