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.

James Hansen

If there's one place that I could put my finger on and say what's the No. 1 place that if a rogue aircraft came in and you had trouble it would really have a huge amount of trouble, it would have to be Houston, Texas. Boy, that could just bring America to its knees, almost.

Joseph Nadol

It's not a significant impact on numbers. It wasn't in Boeing's plan, ... The bottom line is there's a glut of aircraft worldwide, even if traffic recovers domestically to pre Sept. 11 levels, it's going to take significant numbers for a recovery.

Chris Hamilton

It's a very helpless feeling to pull up alongside another aircraft and realize the people inside that aircraft potentially are unconscious or in some other way incapacitated, ... And there's nothing I can do physically from my aircraft -- even though I'm 50 to 100 feet away -- to help them at all.

Sung Sohn

It's pretty clear that all the pieces for capital spending are in place, including rising sales, lower inventories and increases in shipments and orders, ... So, despite what CEOs say in public, there's no question that capital spending -- outside of aircraft and telecommunications -- has bottomed and is on the way up.

Paul Collins

The noise level we're looking for would be to take it below the background noise that people experience outside airports ... below traffic noise levels, ... Silent Aircraft Initiative.

Theo Staub

That's real aviation. You don't even need an aircraft to fly. I feel there are a lot of things to discover in life.

Jim Peterson

It's a matter of funding. As we get the funding, we can bring more vintage aircraft in.

Mahmoud Othman

If the position of the Shiite alliance is final, then things will be more complicated and the formation of the government might face delays.

Simon Phipps

If the ODF Alliance had existed a few month's ago it would have been a lot easier for Massachusetts to focus on the technology issues rather than the personalities involved.

Peter Farmer

I have no doubt that this strategic alliance will lead to the acquisition of more prospective uranium properties in Australia.

Navtej Sarna

India welcomes his intention to transfer all executive power of the state to a government constituted by the alliance of the seven political parties, which has been in the forefront of the movement by the people of Nepal for the restoration of multi-party democracy and their democratic freedoms.

Mike Potter

The Ministerial Alliance picked up that concept ... and brought it to the attention of both hospitals and physicians who were interested.

Steve Black

The Fidelity alliance will significantly enhance our distribution footprint.

Angela Merkel

The campaign is over and now the point is to form a stable government. We, the Christian Democratic alliance (CDU/CSU), have been given the mandate as strongest parties,

Wang Wanlong

The carrier also plans to join an international aviation alliance which will help improve service levels and give it more recognition around the world.

Sergio Marchionne

the industrial alliance will not be with an Asian company.

Julia Gillard

I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul - what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States.

Jason Alexander

I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.

Matt Williams

Ally can play at six, seven, or eight. He's an outstanding performer and was one of the best players on the field last weekend,

Lucia Annunziata

It's been a long time since a visit to America stopped being an infallible formula for strengthening the reputation of European politicians. In the last decade, however, that contact with the American ally can result in at least as many headaches as it does advantages.

Scott McClellan

She, like the rest of the White House, knows that the Federalist Society has been a great ally on many important issues, particularly when it comes to the federal judiciary." ()

Tom DeLay

The latest attack on Chairman Henry Hyde, launched by Salon -- a close ally of the Clinton White House -- is the most despicable, most disgraceful, most disgusting piece of rumor-mongering that I have ever seen.

Nancy McDaniel

Ally wrote us and we had a really good feel about her from the beginning. She wanted Cal to fit.

Robin Morgan

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

Karl Rove

We strongly support Tom DeLay. He's a good man, a close ally of this administration.

Diego Della Valle

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

Ermias Belay

Is what is happening in Idaho an anomaly, a statistical fluke? That is possible. But once it exceeds 1.5 or 2 per million, you start asking questions. If they are all confirmed, it could be odd.

Bill Bryk

He just needs a third pitch. Here's a guy who the Twins were asking for in a big-league trade two years ago. So I look for good things from him.

Mike Fox

He just had a last-minute complication. It's a 12-hour drive round-trip and that was asking a great deal. He was hoping to be able to do it, but another situation necessitated other circumstances.

Peter Cappelli

Harvard Medical School is famous for asking interviewees to open a window that is nailed shut.

Robert Mcnair

What we've got to do is educate the union. Right now, what they're asking is just totally unrealistic. They need to get realistic about debt revenue and not gross revenue. That's where the big disconnect is.

Larry Kramer

He's a combination of a good reporter and the host of a talk show. The concept is for him to really moderate a debate. . . . That requires asking the right questions and being persistent.

Doug Risebrough

Going to the tournament and talking to him about the decisions he made and asking him how he put it together gave me a sense of his abilities. I talked to him (about the Wild management job) before this year's tournament and he said he couldn't talk about it until after the tournament.

David Crawford

He's asking for approvals before we see the whole thing. That's not the way it's usually done.

Gil Brandt

He didn't work out like a tight end would work out, but he worked out like a defensive or offensive lineman. He's an intriguing guy, a good guy to look at.

Lou Dawkins

He could easily have gotten more time early, but he didn't understand our defensive philosophy. The one thing we say here is if you don't play defense, you don't play. You can always have an off night shooting, but you can always play defense.

Lanny Smith

He killed us. We had some breakdowns in our defensive rotations, which we usually don't do.

Trevor Doughty

I thought we had a great defensive effort. The kids kept their poise whenever they were being very deliberate with the basketball. They stayed very composed.

Kraig Terpstra

I think we got a little more out of our post game tonight, but other than that it was a very similar game. It was a tough defensive game and Rapids played well. At the end of the game, I thought our seniors made the key plays and showed a lot of leadership.

Jeff Overmyer

I thought once we were able to rebound, and get the first defensive rebound, that we'd be able to get some opportunities to run in transition. And I think that's what got us going in the second quarter.

Tommy Thompson

Lauren pitched a very smart game and they made the defensive plays when they had to.

Chuck Amato

He's been a great contributor to this program. He's already helped start a tradition on the defensive line. ... We can recruit other players, but there'll never be another Mario Williams. When we're out recruiting defensive ends, that is what they should look like.

Mike Patterson

When they saw me wrestle, that's when they moved me to defense, ... Wrestling is kind of the same technique you'd use on the defensive line, where you have to stay low and use your hands.

Jeremiah Gertler

The equipment is wearing out five times faster than normal operations.

Jake Moreland

The equipment does a pretty good job of protecting us, plus you never think about getting hurt. You think only about stopping the puck.

Todd Spencer

This extra equipment allows them to stay on the road for a long time.

Todd Cartner

We're starting to pull stuff together, mostly equipment and tools we've used.

Keerti Melkote

We knew we were putting our equipment and technology right in the middle of the hackers' playground, but we viewed this as the ultimate test of our network security implementations.

Charles Wald

As a matter of fact, just the contrary. I mean, we're moving more equipment in, we have the weapons we need, we have the fuel we need, we have the crews we need, and now Milosevic is going just the opposite direction, ... So he needs to start paying attention.

John Moores

Radio amateurs have to be here. Modern technology is great, but when it goes out, it's out. Our equipment is low-tech, but it's reliable, and if it breaks, we can find ways to fix it.

J. J. Johnson

Sales of IP-based equipment contributed strongly to the growth of the global market for networking and telecom equipment. Sales in the fourth quarter hit a high note for vendors as end of year spending from service providers around the globe reached peak levels for 2004.

Glenn Tasker

The security of their equipment is paramount and leaving them in an open space is just plain silliness.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

Larry Mowry

There is a good possibility of a freeze or frost mainly to the north and west of Interstate 4.

Robert Price

We took our free shipping truck and ran over their obstacle.

Chris Spencer

We talked before the game that we have to make our free throws, especially on the road.

Mark Schneider

I think that's what we're all trying to gather. We've got one proposed licensee saying, 'We'll give you a free arena,' and another saying, 'I can only give you a first-class casino.' Somewhere in between would be the truth, I think.

Matt Crawford

I was wanting to get back in the game, but I didn't say anything. I was trying to be a cheerleader. I knew if things went well I'd be back in the game to shoot free throws.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

John Carney

He's been described as a free safety and a free spirit, ... He's not your typical NFL player.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Kofi Annan

the United Nations will do whatever we can to help.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Lord Palmerston

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.

Richard Bush

Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?

Surya Thapa

I am a patriot and I have a responsibility to fulfil.

William J. Clinton

The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.

William J. Clinton

To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

Learned Hand

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

Learned Hand

Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

Plutarch

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Terry Pratchett

[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

Pythagoras

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Brian Glenn

It's a shame. We had just sent all our payments in.

Gary Morgan

It's very complicated what we're doing. We're just making sure what we sent out was accurate.

David Smith

They are overestimating the anti-gay sentiment in their own organization and the country.

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Winston Churchill

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Kalin Lucas

I think about him every day. Today I woke up and I didn't even feel like going to school. It was rough.

Lee Nelson

I'm 63 today but I feel like I'm 18.

Brad Faxon

The first thing Dory did today was look up at me and say, ?We?re going to Kapulua,?

Neale Donald Walsch

Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today

Miguel de Icaza

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Marat Safin

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

Louise Hay

My younger years were filled with fear; my todays are filled with confidence.