Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ajay Prasad

Passengers on low-cost airlines have a common complaint that they are not given meal or accommodation in case of delays.

Christopher Mecray

It's continued fallout from Boeing's earnings release and comments coming out of the conference calls for both Boeing and Honeywell. People are beginning to realize that these companies are expensive relative to earnings. You also have a lack of improvement in some of the airline names that have reported recently weighing on these companies, too.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Miley Cyrus

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Bobby Fischer

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Stephen Jay Gould

I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal.

Stephen Jay Gould

Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.

Ray Neidl

To a large degree it (the cut in commissions) is helping offset the fuel prices. You're talking about some big bucks there. That's 3 percent of revenue to people who book 80 percent of your flights.

Arturo Sarukhan

Vicente was the sort of comic book hero, the guy who was going to bring down the regime. There was a certain mythical aura.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Trent Hunter

Special teams are what usually win games. We were working hard on both sides of that.

Jimmy Just

The way both teams played you would have hated to see either team lose. It was just a fantastic game. Both teams gave it all they had and that's what it's all about.

Bob Gainey

The way both teams are going, that's why you saw the game that we saw. It was important game and it could have effect the outcome of the season.

Eddie Wong

These are the two major sources of global liquidity. If both of them reverse, it is not going to be good for the global equity market, but it is too early to say that we are at the turning point.

Tim Crowder

The rings have been pretty popular. I brought both of mine and all of the kids have wanted to look at them. Hopefully they can help inspire them to reach for their dreams.

Gary Wadler

This is a work in progress. It has to be monitored - both its details and the implementation of the details.

Jerry York

This is a well deserved honor for Chris. He has always been a tenacious defender, but this season he gained a great deal of poise and has showed the offensive flair that made him an impact player at both ends of the ice.

Simon Perry

This is a significant loss to Microsoft, both in their reputation as well as the damage that it could cause them with their future product getting out into the wrong hands.

Joanne Pratt

The Web is a great place to shop and spend money, but it's pretty great for making money too.

Marcus Thames

That's what I work for every year. It'll be a great feeling.

Glenn Britt

A la carte isn't a great way to sell networks. It's also the wrong way to sell programming. Most TV shows don't sell on their own.

Bob Grimes

All around, this was just a great performance as a whole.

Jeff Bower

Allan did a great job getting everything going with this whole process,

Ray Richardson

Albany has great tradition of winning and I was a part of that, ... It's great to have Albany back in the league and will be a great place for young men to try and reach their dreams, which is playing in the NBA.

Annika Sorenstam

A little disappointed about the outcome - it was so close. The US team played some great golf.

Rachel Nichols

'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.

Randy Sanders

(Ainge) is working hard and has a great attitude,

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

Philip Mote

In the last year or so, this has really taken off like a freight train without brakes.

Danny Sullivan

In the last year and a half, (A9) hasn't skyrocketed in popularity.

Eric Skrum

In the last two years, we're seeing more and more communities saying, 'We just don't want to use the technology.

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Mark Adams

We were kind of left to make it up as we went along.

Ed Westwick

Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

Percy Sledge

I'd liked this girl all through high school. After we graduated, we got together for a while, but she left me for another man.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Ambrose Bierce

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

Ambrose Bierce

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

Ambrose Bierce

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

Ambrose Bierce

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

Alicia Keys

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

Anne Lamott

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Andy Pettitte

When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.

John Green

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.