Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.

Gary Kelly

Denver has been a missing link in Southwest's system for too long, and we've known the demand for Southwest Airlines service is strong in Colorado. Today, we're not only celebrating the start of our new service, but we're pleased to announce two new destinations that Southwest Airlines will serve nonstop from Denver International Airport.

Al Goodman

The strike is the first by Iberia's pilot's since it was privatized and the company says the present row could lead to it losing $100m, canceling aircraft orders and cutting jobs.

Nezette Rydell

The taller that storm is, the more air that is rushing up. And as that air rushes up into the storm, it is making those winds turn with height, and that spinning is what causes the tornado vortex that drops down out of the cloud.

Mary Schiavo

The rule of thumb is that aircraft are built for a 20-year economic life. That doesn't mean they fall out of the sky after 20 years. But it does mean they need tender loving care.

Alberto Gonzalez

The station never corroborated that immigration was there. We had phone calls on the air cautioning people that immigration was in Bridgeton and Vineland.

Amrit Sethi

I spent the whole Sunday in the queue for the ticket. I appeal to both countries to relax the visa process. It is a must -- it is more important than opening rail tracks and air and bus links.

Rob Mercer

I see this as a win-win scenario for the airlines, the airports and the customers. Both Air NZ and Qantas gain more from growing traffic on the Tasman into their domestic networks.

Roger Lane

I've deployed elements of 45 Commando group equipped with the full range of combat power by air and by road to close with the enemy and destroy them in an area historically used by the Taliban,

Jeffrey R. Immelt

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Michael Goodman

People dedicated to committing piracy are going to find ways to do it.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

P. Herbert

It would be a failure if we don't come up with something and do something, ... The governor and I are committed to taking the information received here (at the summit) and putting together some sort of transportation initiative.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Paul Casey

I've been elected nine times, ... I've seen and done most things that a representative can do. I went from a freshman rep to chairing one of the most elite committees ? the Joint Committee on Taxation.

Chris Cox

It would make sense to consider, and this is only under consideration, a committee that would be focused on the subject matter rather than on a corner of it within the jurisdiction of one of our committees,

David Gill

We hope to make one or two very big signings this summer - and we are already committed to that.

John Ensign

We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,

Sarah Lee

I said, 'If I make an eagle putt, I'm going to be in the lead.

Bill Vaughan

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

Michelle Wie

I was kind of disappointed on that hole, ... I felt like I should have made an eagle there, but I was still happy with the birdie.

I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary.

Chinua Achebe

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

Glenn Tilton

It would not be the end of United if we were to do so, ... We would be flying the next morning.

Joe Crede

We were flying last night and I didn't get to see much of it.

Gordon Cooper

We'll miss you, Al, but we'll be there before long, so we can try some of that flying ourselves,

Harry Reid

For those of us who fly a lot and are stuck at gates, we feel after an hour, you should be able to say, 'OK, I've had enough. I want off here,'

Eoin Colfer

Connor Broekhart was born to fly, or more accurately he was born flying.

George Barrett

You know what that tells me? It tells me they are not ready to fly on their own, not ready to leave the nest.

E. P. Thompson

I thought it was a really good team effort. I thought we played well, defensively, and we forced them to take some tough shots all night. We did a good job on the boards.

John Galsworthy

A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Joyce Harris

That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Joe Strummer

If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.

Roy Moore

To do my duty, I must obey God.

Greg Smith

We know that God is going to take us there.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Fred Droes

It would be unacceptable to leave it there if it didn't work. We would come down and take it out or modify it.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Stuart Desjarlait

There's still a lot of sadness. This is going to take years to get over. A lot of the students, I think they have to graduate, leave the building, get away from that.

Woody Allen

In a relationship, it is better to be the leaver than the leavee.

Christopher Shays

I know and you know people who would not leave without their pets. They will stay. They did stay in New Orleans,

Napoleon Bonaparte

I know when it is necessary, how to leave the skin of lion to take one of fox.

Bubba Tyer

It's healing, everything is on track. Our plan is just to leave it alone.

John Thomson

Then we turn around and three weeks later, we had to leave our homes.

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Benjamin Disraeli

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Jane Austen

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Bristol Palin

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

Charles Bukowski

I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.

Charles Bukowski

It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and my father had a dong that shot juice. How could they have things like that and walk around as if everything was normal, and talk about things, and then do it and not tell anybody?

John Lennon

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.