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.

Joe McBride

The work will be a hardship while it's under way for a lot of the aircraft owners and operators. However, the feedback we're getting is they recognize it's important for the long-term use of the airport.

Rep. McGihon

This is a states' rights and children's rights health issue. Clean air and a vibrant economy go hand in hand. It means Colorado has the right to do what is best for our own citizens and the tourism industry that is so dependent on a clean environment. This bill protects us from the very real costs of air pollution - lost tourism, children with asthma and children with learning disabilities caused by mercury poisoning.

Robert Burns

This is the first data being collected anywhere in the country under a new national air quality monitoring program. Monitoring at other locations will get under way in 2006, but we're setting the stage for future poultry and other livestock production facility air emissions monitoring under this program.

Robert Owens

This is not just a pilot course. We will be teaching air traffic management, safety science and physiology. Very few of the students will undertake flight training.

Elizabeth Morse

This is some of the most moist air we have seen in a long time.

Jim Crawford

This is the best day of the year. There's so much excitement in the air and everybody's ready to watch some baseball after a long winter. It's a great day.

Hugh Shelton

The USS Carl Vinson, the carrier battle group, will arrive in central command's area later today (Thursday). Some of the ground and air forces from the United States will begin to arrive in the gulf this weekend.

John H. Morgan

The Welsh Golfing Union has an air of history and authority and, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the merger, I can see no necessity for this name change.

Mary Wilson

This is one of the greatest opportunities for residents in the Pittsburgh area to be pro-active in the region they live in.

Terry Harris

This is one of the best tracks in this area and we'd had a lot of interest in going with IMCA this season. We have open practices on Thursdays and a lot of the IMCA guys who came were asking us if we'd sanction.

Dr. Omi

This is one area that we ask China to make a further improvement.

Sylvia Hatchell

This is one area that should've been changed a long time ago.

Steve Wall

This is the area where liquid or a wet surface has most likelybeen present, now or in the recent past,

Steve Wall

This is the area where liquid or a wet surface has most likely been present, now or in the recent past. Titan probably has episodic periods of rainfall or massive seepages of liquid from the ground.

Brian Murphy

This is the area open to (stability) and savings.

Adam Schiff

The U.S. trade deficit with China shows that while we value the potential of their market, they value the reality of our market. It is in this area that we should use our leverage.

James Armstrong

The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South Carolina.

Meir Sheetrit

I would like to arrive at a situation where the Palestinians are begging the U.S. to stop the Israelis. Then let's come talk again.

Jeff Hess

When students arrive they often are lined up to come in and get a pop or two for breakfast. I'd rather see that stop.

David Bergen

I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.

Kofi Annan

When it comes to peacekeeping, the U.N. can be there and on time, well-equipped and ready to act, if those member states with capacity -- and which help take the decisions -- would also participate in these operations, ... Where the will is not there, and the resources are not made available, the U.N. peacekeepers will arrive late.

Jonny Greenwood

When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my heart always sinks a little bit, and I think, 'It's going to be down to some sound guy's ideas.' Contact microphones on the violins. I'm a purist, I suppose.

Keli McGregor

Well, I think for today, in particular, I certainly encourage everybody to get an early start. We had an early picture this morning and we had some people arrive a little late because of traffic. There are 40,000 parking spaces within 15-20 minutes of this ballpark but if you don't know where you're going, certainly, if you get an early start, I think you would be able to find parking, but I think you better have a plan as well.

David Scott

We hope to arrive roughly in the first half of the 45-day review period and inject some rational thoughts into the debate early in the process.

Gerald Bourke

We hope to arrive at a mutually satisfactory set of operating procedures. If that doesn't happen, it will be hard to get commodities from our donors.

Ron DeHaven

We hope that it doesn't come here. But our planning is on the assumption that it will arrive here. And we need to be prepared.

Mike Boles

Friday is going to be a battle but we're going to show up.

Tim Williams

If we could just run him up or see him, we could say we know where he's at, we know he's there. We could start with a battle plan.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle

Anthony Cordesman

How much of the battle space can the Iraqi forces take over, and who is actually doing the fighting - those are the key measurements. The measure cannot be the elimination of the insurgency, as desirable as that would be. You cannot eliminate all of the bombings.

Drew Bennett

I would say it was a pretty good battle over the years. I'd say it was a pretty good competition,

Wade Duty

I think it's an uphill battle all the way.

Dave Corneliussen

With moles, it is more of a battle of attrition.

Scott Skiles

I thought the way that game unfolded made that a very good win. We knew we'd have a battle in the second half. We battled and made a lot of big plays on both ends. When it got really tight, we raised our level of play.

Jim Keays

I thought we came out and played well in the first quarter. Then we lost the battle of field position.

Jessica Bird

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Marshal Cohen

This is the beginning of the disappearing tag. Smarter merchants are trying this, and if it's done right, the design inside romances the product even more.

David Perlmutter

From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal interactions with caregivers.

Jenny Dervin

Boston is a classic case of a market that has a lot of service but it's overpriced. Every time we begin service from Boston to a new city, we come in and we liberate the route with low fares.

Oriol Servia

Bruno is my friend and I talk to him as much as I can. I want him to get better as soon as possible and get back to racing. I know I'll have to begin worrying about what I do next year pretty soon. I really just started thinking about that. Maybe I should be calling some people now, but I'm just enjoying this so much that it's hard to think about that.

Michael Snodgrass

Brownback has been great upfront when he appropriated $2 million for the St. Peter's Waterway Redevelopment project. He recently appropriated funds to begin work on the Bethany Development project.

Michael Malone

Best Buy reported a disappointing quarter and we are seeing a bunch of earnings warnings after Hurricane Katrina, which is not good news. If this continues then it will begin to weigh on sentiment.

Justine Vogt

Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

John le Carre

I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.

Yi Xianrong

It is a clear signal to the property market that the central government has the determination and the means to curb investments and housing prices.

Joel Burgio

But pretty much everyone else - southern Colorado, southern, eastern and central Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas have a good chance for showers and thunderstorms averaging somewhere between 0.3 and 1.75 inches over the next 48 to 72 hours.

Kevin Hawkins

The question now is whether some consumers will continue to stay away from central London and whether tourists will be deterred by the threat of further disruption,

Stan Sexton

We saw Central Lake play Brimley (a couple weeks ago) and they had over 20 offensive rebounds. We emphasized rebounding tonight and I thought we did a good job. I felt we controlled the tempo.

Luther Riley

We knew Madison Central was going to come ready to play. We had to match their intensity. They're real excited about their first trip to the Coliseum and they had a great crowd. We had to match that.

Al Hanna

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.

Stephen Harper

I would prefer to do it sooner rather than later but not immediately.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Carolyn Heilbrun

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Mark Hall

We are not here to get to tomorrow. We are here for today, to bloom today. We were made to Thrive!

Potter Stewart

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

Oral Roberts

Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.

Mary Oliver

Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.

Neil Simon

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

Shel Silverstein

So I'm all of love that could make it today.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.