Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Owens

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

Jesse Jackson

If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.

Jeff Daniels

I don't watch dailies. I don't pretend not to read reviews, I just don't. I wait for it to come on the air, just like everybody else.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if the antenna on your truck is a danger to low flying airplanes.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm of the air. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space.

Jacqueline Cochran

In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.

Jacqueline Bisset

I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh.

Jackie Stewart

When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

Jack Vance

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

Christopher Hitchens

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

George Harrison

Been stuck in airports, terrorized; sent to meetings, hypnotized; overexposed, commercialized. Handle me with care.

Gaston Bachelard

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

Fritz Sauckel

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

Chris Hadfield

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

Fran Lebowitz

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

Fran Lebowitz

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

George W. Bush

Thats why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.

George Santayana

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

George Nethercutt

From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.

George Murphy

How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.

Frank Zappa

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

Frank Zappa

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.

Frank Zappa

Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport

Jessie Ware

I've become one of those annoying people who brings their own food on to planes.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.

Gabriel Iglesias

I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

Frank Borman

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

Frank Borman

There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.

George Jean Nathan

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

Chris Hardwick

Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up. Just the concept of "I had this idea" and within a week it was in the world, that was a part of why it felt weirdly empowering as a performer.

Christopher Columbus

"Thanks be to God," says the Admiral, "the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is."

Christopher Columbus

The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.

Chrissy Teigen

My shoots are very much about skin, so I'm an exfoliating and moisturizing nut. I fly so much, so I take my makeup off as soon as I get on the airplane. I look at my watch every half hour and moisturize.