Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rene Russo

My mom worked for Lockheed Corp. in Burbank as an inspector of airplane parts. To help make ends meet, Dee, a friend of my mom's from Lockheed, moved in. She was a lovely person and helped with our care for many years.

Athar Khan

It is equally safe and equally reliable, but it is half the fuel we consume when pushing the airplane out of the gate.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

Beck

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

Ashley Tisdale

I grew up on movies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun. You probably saw it more recently, but as a kid I grew up on them so I loved those kinds of movies.

Bertrand Russell

I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

Johnny Depp

That's the interesting thing about becoming a father. Suddenly you universally have something in common with other people. I can be sitting next to a very straight, humorless businessman or stockbroker type on an airplane and we'll just start talking about kids. And that conversation last three or four hours.

Octavio Dotel

One thing Billy taught me is to know how to handle the situation. I learned how to handle the situation, ... It's hard to know how to handle it.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Evelyn Thompson

That's a very difficult time, because you can't think. I mean, you know, you just don't process. And even in that meeting, I'm not too sure how much they heard me, but it was OK. Because I knew that, I knew they're not hearing it, or not right now. It'll come back maybe later, and they know they can call me.

S. Hughes

I was really looking to being wanted . . . to have a place to call home and finish my career out,

Bryan Thomas

I wasn't expecting to go to California. I got the call the day before the North-South game. I came home for Christmas and flew out (Dec. 26). Right after the game we flew back that night.

Charles Dickens

I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they call character, my dear, than a canary-bird, but I know I am trustworthy.

Jeff Probst

I finally met someone who could teach me about love.

James Garner

I said, 'Well, I'll give myself five years to see if I can make a living at it.' And after five years I was 30 and I said, 'Yeah, I can go another five years on just the reputation I have now' and then I went another five, and another five, and another five, and finally -- at 50 years old -- I said 'You know, I think I have a career,'

Rick Riordan

Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day.

Ramez Naam

The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.

Jason Bohn

Today was a big stepping stone for me, playing in the final group, first time ever on the PGA Tour, ... Even though I didn't come out on top, I still sucked it up and I played with a lot of heart.

Dale Easley

Three hundred teams started the season, and we're in the final four. Our goal is to get to 8 o'clock (tonight).

Tyrus Thomas

Yeah, we did it. Final Four! No one thought we would.

Chris Redfield

We gave up seven offensive rebounds in the final period and we have to improve on that.

Robert Jackson

We are not unaware that we are not final because we are infallible; we know that we are infallible only because we are final.

Desmond Tutu

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Buzz Aldrin

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

Valerie Azlynn

My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

Merrill Markoe

Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.

Merle Shain

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Oscar Wilde

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!

Michel de Montaigne

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me...

Michel de Montaigne

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Amy Winehouse

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Amy Winehouse

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

Amy Winehouse

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Amy Winehouse

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Amy Winehouse

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Alexander Pope

Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

Alexander Pope

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

Alex Turner

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

Alex Turner

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.