Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Stewart

Team Macon continues to be upbeat. And we're doing our part to ensure the success of the C-17 program because it's the right airplane at the right time.

Fidel Castro

It would be a crime not to go to the appeal, ... The passports are ready and of course the airplane is ready.

Sathya Baba

The sky itself will have to be the roof of the auditorium of the future, I will have to forego the car and even the airplane when I move from place to place, for the crowds pressing around them will be too huge.

Wes Craven

That's how this (movie) felt to me, a real director- actors' piece, with two people just sitting in airplane seats. It's gripping.

Peter Scott

We cannot expect forever staff to show up on the airplane and be given a heavily subsidized house,

Jim Brown

TWA believes that the remains of Flight 800 should be treated like the remains of any other airplane crash and disposed of respectfully once the investigation is concluded.

Larry Davis

Throwing is one issue, but covering bases and getting his running back is a big point of concern. It was already starting to swell by the time I got to him (on the field), and putting him on an airplane didn't do him any favors.

When I read about her protesting, I sent a thousand dollars of my own money to get myself and my children on an airplane up here to share my side and my thoughts and Alan's. I want to let the president know that Diana does not speak for this family.

Debbie Gibson

The cool thing is that people have been so responsive to my work on stage that I've actually had to turn things down. I have so many things I want to do, from flying an airplane to writing a symphony, and doing motivational speaking to groups of teenagers. Making records is now only one part of a great big picture in my life.

Joan Allen

I'm not a huge risk taker... I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like that. That's not really me.

I'm looking forward to seeing it in a standing display, ... It's a very challenging airplane to fly, and the longer it's flown, the greater the risk. There's a reason why there are no original ones around. They all crashed.

The airplane will go down, and eventually you will lose steering,

Jim Hall

The airplane's out-of-trim condition became worse as the crew attempted to diagnose or correct the problem, ... The crew had difficulty controlling the airplane's tendency to pitch nose down. The airplane descended, but the crew was able to (stop) the descent.

Jim Courier

The airplane has had a bog impact on my life.

It's in the top five costs. Fuel is No. 1, then labor, then airplane ownership, and then distribution.

There's two reasons why this happened, ... Either the (National Guard) pilots screwed up or they were playing games with our airplane and they got caught.

Stephen Robinson

This is just like putting in an airplane engine,

Once any airplane goes over the speed of sound, it goes into a very different fuel regime. The operating costs become absurd. You would not pay a huge premium to fly this airplane.

It's a recipe for disaster because the airplane is different enough that it really does require special training,

I told them there were bad people on the airplane, and that those bad people had caused the airplane to crash. When that happened, Daddy and everyone on board died.

It's not as if the entire airplane is for sale.

Tom Anderson

It's not as good as we'd desire. But for an airplane that's 4 months old, it's not too bad.

Everybody is horrified at what they can do, but the truth is the research quantities we're studying are quite modest. And if the building they're in got hit by a bomb or an airplane or a tornado or something like that.

It was a bit of a nail-biter because he passed the point at which we had predicted him to lift off by about 1,500 feet. As you see the airplane pass that point, of course you wonder when is he going to lift off?

There's been slight moderation, but that's just minor movement at a very high level. It's like a high-flying airplane coming down a little bit. You're still flying pretty high.

Buzz Aldrin

Drive over to the nearest airport, and enroll in flight classes. You will experience the joy of freedom in the air above, as you study the mechanics of how this is made possible by understanding the construction, the laws of motion, the air that can provide lift when it is moved by propulsion through the air, and stay above the gravity pulling the airplane back down to earth.

Buzz Aldrin

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch.

Eva Herzigova

We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.

Jesse Ventura

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

Jay Leno

We're heading for a gov. shutdown. This is serious. W/o the gov who will fail to inspect our airplanes? Who will fail to secure our borders? Who will put us 14 trillion dollars in debt?

Moby

For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor to climate change. According to the United Nations, 25% of climate change comes from animal agriculture, so every car, bus, boat, truck, airplane combined has less CO2 and methane emissions than animal agriculture.

Heated glass has some history - in supermarket freezer doors and airplane windows. That's why they don't fog up.

Matthew Caws

I could have done without a few years in the middle there where I was really struggling to pay the rent. That was rough. But, hey, that's a cheap price to pay to be able to keep this hobby as my job. When I was 11, I liked making those airplane models. And then when I was 12 and 13, I really liked listening to records. It was the next thing and I got to hang out on this one. I'm still there.