Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

Burt Rutan

Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes

Demetri Martin

As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway.

Denis Hayes

Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It'sreally hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We'll be a half century behind the Japanese, but better late than never.

Edwidge Danticat

I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?

Charles Bukowski

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

Cory Doctorow

I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a no-fly list. I figured this stuff out by looking at the web and by thinking about it. If I can do it, terrorists can do it. They told us they took away our freedom to make us safe. Do you feel safe?

Amanda Bennett

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

Bob Bradley

A sea of humanity. What a wonderful sight to see at the start.

Ray Ozzie

a seamless weaving of hardware, software and devices.

Eric Hornbeck

As long as I can feel like I'm doing good, I'm going to be here. It could be tomorrow, it could be a month, I don't have those answers. However, if we can keep the search going, I will stay.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Jonathan Lewis

The season is not lost. We're still Virginia Tech.

Barbara Jordan

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

Carl Sandburg

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

Daniel Handler

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

Ayn Rand

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Jandy Nelson

Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.

Demi Lovato

The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible.

Bret Easton Ellis

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Ben Harper

I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

Doyle Brunson

There's no life like the life I've lived. You're free like a cloud floating up in the sky.

Robert Montgomery

How oft,—be witness, Guardian of our days!... The sky besprinkled o'er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton'd there;...

Tim O'Brien

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Thomas Pynchon

A screaming comes across the sky.