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.

Joe Gill

This oil shock could cause more damage to the industry than 9/11. That was a one-day tragedy that knocked airline demand and oil prices for six months. This oil price move is more sustained, and could trigger a slowing in consumer demand, the nightmare scenario for most airlines.

Chuck Rosenberg

People need to understand that we take these threats very seriously, and that we will prosecute anyone who threatens an airline even, as here, when the threat turns out to be a hoax, ... Not funny, don't do it.

Al Gore

Some of our recommendations will impose costs on the airline industry,

Paula Berg

Some of our maintenance employees saw another airline throwing away a scaffolding. Our guys took it out of the trash and turned it into a picnic table and a few benches for their hangar.

Don Kennedy

Some of those pilots were very high-time pilots, with the best airline transport rating, which is the highest license a pilot can have, ... Some of them were only transport pilots with many thousands of hours of flying time that could not manage to fly this airplane.

Kirsten Dunst

My mom lived a much different airline experience, ... She was working Lufthansa in first class. So it was about passing out the caviar. Claire in this movie was a little bit more blue collar. But the one thing I did figure out is that Claire imagines her life as being as glamorous as my mom's airline life was many years ago.

Thijs Berkelder

Looking at the volatility of airline results, this is pretty much in line.

Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Kate Fox

The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.

Rhona Mitra

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

Shahid Malik

the most profound challenge yet faced by the British Muslim community.

John Deacon

No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.

Faith Hill

Thank you, fans, very much. She would say that in a British accent. ... She's a fantastic director, one of the greatest that I've ever had the pleasure to work with. She's in London editing another video for me for a song called 'Stealing Kisses.' It's amazing. It was an honor to work with her, and I know she would ... thank the fans and she would thank hair and makeup. There was a lot of hair. There was a lot of makeup. It was just very exciting to do it.

L'Wren Scott

Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.

John Deacon

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

Gordon Brown

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?

Mark Richt

He's banged up and he's sore, ... We've got to see how he progresses. But if he's in a weakened position, you could make it a lot worse so we're being cautious with it right now.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Aristotle Onassis

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

Stuart Cohen

E-mail is the primary source of viruses. So cutting off e-mail before midnight seems prudent.

Clara Barton

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

Donald Trump

I'm cutting taxes. We're going to grow the economy. It's going to grow at a record rate of growth.

Andy Goldsworthy

I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.

Andrew Marvell

No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, alas, they know or heed How far these beauties hers exceed! Fair trees! where s'e'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found.

Andrew Mason

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

Allan Sherman

Do not make a stingy sandwich; pile the cold cuts high; so you should see salami coming through the rye.

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Marcus Miller

This is the first time we've played soccer in the spring; we have just played in the fall in the past, so it's kind of fun to see some different teams.

bell hooks

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

David Robinson

Another flake doesn't have to fall and we're going have a fourth consecutive year of above-normal snowfall.

Alan Chambers

What sense do I make of it? People fall back into sin. There are all sorts of reasons why people go back.

Jake Bacon

We got all the shots we wanted to have. They just wouldn't fall for us tonight.

Bernie Sanders

I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Koyie Hill

Any day I'm in the big leagues is a good day.

Theresa McDermott

And the prayers. I can't stress how important the prayers have been, because I know that's why I feel as good as I do.

Bobby Dunn

And that's a pretty good score considering the wind (Tuesday).

Alain Vigneault

Anybody's who watched any hockey in the last 10, 15 years knows that (Keane) doesn't go often, but when he does he's pretty good at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Are we playing good baseball? Yes, ... How long are we going to play like this? We'll do it as long as we can. I guarantee one thing: We're going to show up every day and play the same kind of baseball.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Jeff Linenfelser

We put a lot of time in to get him ready. He was 100 percent ready for the fight. What are you going to do?

Pat Griffin

I'd say I spend 90 percent of my time in the Terrain Park.

John Smedley

I'd say we're about 70 percent of the way there.

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Chris Corrigan

I don't think any progress has been made on that front.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Daniel Day-Lewis

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Jackson Rathbone

It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room!

John Green

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

Nate Silver

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

Pope Benedict XVI

Mission is a workshop where there is room for all.

Shia LaBeouf

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

Mwai Kibaki

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

Lisa Alther

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

Joseph Boyden

Compared to Americans, Canadians are often more gentle in their approach to things. They're much more apologetic. There's less room for conflict.