Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Cummings

Just picture the Eiffel Tower on its side and trying to maneuver it around an aircraft carrier with little room to spare.

Tony Davis

Having started with only two Airbus A320 aircraft in September last year, Tiger Airways has grown and will continue to grow as one of the world's leading low-fare airlines.

Wang Yusheng

His speech at the Boeing aircraft plant has delivered a very important message to the American people. The Chinese Government and enterprises are very sincere about business co-operation with the United States .

Bob Stevens

What I like about (the center) is, if you pick any subject, say drug interdiction, (you can ask) is the nation better served or would the Coast Guard be better served to have ships or rotary winged aircraft or fixed wing aircraft or something else?

John Mica

I think this is mostly our responsibility, ... but also it's something that we might require as standard operating equipment on new, large aircraft that would be at risk.

Lindsey Davies

There are no plans at this stage to stop flights coming in but the situation is very uncertain. We have several aircraft scheduled for this week to bring in food for tens of thousands of people.

Rick Fisher

I am convinced that before the end of this decade, we will see preparations for China to build its first indigenous aircraft carrier.

Manmohan Singh

I am happy to announce that our government has cleared the purchase of 43 aircraft from Airbus.

George Miller

He flew the aircraft all the way to the ground. He did what he was supposed to do, from what we can tell. Unfortunately, it wasn't his day.

Olympia Snowe

I think it demonstrates their effectiveness, ... It makes you realize they are critical at moments like this, as we have seen off the coast of Maine.

Jim Lee

I'd like to see some of the things that ordinary folks have. Our local folks, with their tradition of joining the Coast Guard, and the Life-Saving Service before that, traveled all over the world. So they'll have some souvenirs from Lord knows where.

Dwane Casey

He gets them in so many different ways. He is as quick as Iverson with the ball, probably not from coast to coast, but from a standstill going to the basket, he is as quick.

Brad Thor

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.

Tony Skinn

Being on the court is a whole lot easier than being on the bench. It's a roller coaster ride on the bench.

Schoolboy Q

The L.A. rap scene is popping again because rappers stopped saying 'West Coast.' Nobody says that anymore. Fans of L.A. music were reaching and saying, 'This is West Coast music,' because nobody else liked it.

S. Hughes

The cost of an Ivy League school to a West Coast family is not the same as it is to a family say from Nebraska,

Marty Wiseman

The coast was in fairly sad shape prior to the casinos. Even Mississippians didn't vacation there anymore. But that had all been reversed, and the lights had come back on.

Tim Dillingham

The coast of New Jersey has a lot of problems. There is pressure for development or industrial use. This walk is to protect the coast that we all love and a fun way to start the new year.

Justin McCareins

I was wondering who that guy was throwing that ball. We'll get it fixed up for when it matters the most.

John W. Snow

Hopefully this is a low point for us, ... We simply aren't getting the railroad fixed at the rate we should.

Kimball Brace

Clearly, there are a lot of things that could get fixed and probably should get fixed. One of the big problems is that many jurisdictions don't have a lot of money.

David Tom

I'm on medication for it and I'm going to get it fixed pretty soon. They're going to fix it so I never have to withdraw after playing nine holes ever again.

Don Bryant

I'm on disability. I'm on a fixed income, that's all I'd need right now!

Michael McCoy

It used to be our kids would come in here and follow us, but that's not the trend anymore. I just think it'd be nice if General Motors could get everything together, get it fixed and get going again." ()

Gregg Easterbrook

Smart growth' does not have a fixed definition. Phrases like that mean whatever you want them to mean.

John Fowles

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

Keith Gumbinger

The longer the fixed rate, the more insulated you'll be.

Bob Hofman

I was disappointed we didn't guard a little better.

Mike Adras

He's a very physical off guard that can score outside, inside, wherever he wants to.

Jeff Foster

He's getting to the point where his step is so long and so angular, it's really hard to guard him.

Jared Jeffries

We match up well. We have weapons offensively that I think it's hard for them to match up against. They don't really have a guard who can match up with Gil very well.

David Boswell

We have to be guarded to keep a right-to-work law from passing, ... That will be one of our top priorities.

Asa Hutchinson

Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection.

Ron Artest

We lost, so it doesn't mean much how I guarded (Bryant). He hit that last shot, I was like, 'That's Kobe.' He is wide open; he is going to hit it.

Jon Cooper

Riley really played well. We did what we had to do to win. There were times when we let our guard down, but Riley kept us in it.

Nykesha Sales

Playing with her in practice, you know what she can do. You know she can rebound. You know she can guard some of those smaller post players, and obviously, she can knock down that three.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Alex Salmond

It had 1,000 years as an independent nation before the union,

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Winston Churchill

It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Charles Kennedy

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Wyclef Jean

He rules, he's real tough when it comes to business. I'm like a sponge right now. I know I can pick up things from him.

Mike Kuntz

Here, we had them on their heels, and we wanted to go for the jugular, but we didn't pick up a blitz.

Jay Haugland

He's deceivingly fast. When you watch him from the outside, sometimes he doesn't look that fast, but he can pick up speed in a hurry.

Mark Gottfried

I think the carryover is that the pickup games, when we're not present, are better, ... They're talking about principles defensively.

Susan Williams

We're pretty picky on those kind, and my first reaction was it was an error.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Ruth Miller

We're now role models, so if we see a piece of garbage, we'd better pick it up.

Mike Shanahan

When he's in there, there is a presence. He really picks up our team.

Dan Abrams

All the work will be done by the Sierra Vista Rotary West Club.

Tim O'Brien

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

Roger Angell

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Wilbur Ross

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

Saint Augustine

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

Henry A. Kissinger

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

James H. Boren

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

Jon Heder

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

Roger Martin

I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

Woody Guthrie

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

Sara Sheridan

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Samuel Rutherford

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Samuel Rutherford

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

Wallace Stevens

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Warren Beatty

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

W. C. Fields

If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.

Twiggy

Fluted sleeves or any sleeve that flares out before coming in again at the wrist are very feminine and a great way to distract from the dreaded 'bingo wings.'