Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Gao Hongfeng

China will purchase more than 100 aircraft each year in the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10).

Robert Englund

My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.

Doug Parker

If we can make it work -- fine. But we also have a problem with aircraft (being able to fly the route).

Ed Stewart

Simplicity is the key. It is a marvelous thing to have crews that can fly on any airplane at any time, and to have a maintenance department work on a single aircraft type.

Paul Ashworth

Since the order books at Boeing are bulging at the moment, with many of those orders coming from abroad, aircraft exports could continue to be a big positive for the trade deficit for some time to come.

Chris Mecray

Singapore is an important airline. It's really the gateway to aircraft sales in Asia. But at end of the day, one company with 10 aircraft is not going to make or break any program.

Mark Sullivan

I make sure I bring along some kind of snack I can eat in the airport so I don't have to be at the mercy of the airport food court.

Rick Bryant

If it is outside of the airport footprint, we don't have a problem with it. In fact, we think it is a good idea.

Jag Gill

If someone told me, 'Hey Jag, you want to buy an airport for $3 million?' I would jump all over it. There's several ways the city could pay for it - through (federal aviation) bonds or owner financing. It could be a cash-less option. If someone offered me that, I'd take it.

Lisa Snowdon

I always get sunglasses at the airport - I'm constantly losing and breaking pairs - there's a huge selection and always special deals on them.

Jim Edmonds

If we had a full complement and the airport had a full complement, we could do a better job to make sure more containers are inspected.

Anthony Cordesman

On a day-to-day basis, the overall level of security is obviously low. We can't secure the airport road, can't stop the incoming into the Green Zone, can't stop the killings and kidnappings,

George Galloway

Charge me and I will head for the airport right now and face them down in court as I faced them down in the Senate room

Jim Doyle

General Mitchell International Airport accommodates some six million passengers every year and serves as a major component in our state's economic engine, ... Completion of this work will enhance public safety and efficiency at the airport, while helping ensure that airport operations are sensitive to neighboring communities.

Raul Gonzalez

By the process of elimination naman, pwede naman yun ma-identify eh. The ATO (Air Transportation Office) can do that kasi sila ang nagkiclear ng flights and the tower in NAIA (Ninoy Aquino International Airport can tell you that too,

Dave Band

I don't want to go in armed with a bunch of tunes -- I want to go in barefoot and unprepared. It's an ongoing relationship. We like the way he works, and he likes the way we work together, so I don't think it's even a question.

John Reid

I want to make sure if our armed forces are going to play a greater role in the world than previously that we give them the welfare, the numbers and the equipment that they need.

Gerry Brown

What that did is pretty much shut me out of the aviation world.

Brian Doyle

We have to balance where we feel the greatest threat is. Aviation is still a threat because they (terrorists) use those planes as flying missiles.

Paul Jacobs

He had a passion about aviation and wanted to do charitable work, so it was a perfect marriage.

Tom Kelly

Every time there is a robbery at one of our branches we try to figure out what happened and why the numbers go up ... most of us are left scratching our heads.

Jackie Cooper

Keep 'em clear of things like leaves and tree branches and stuff. They run hot.

Bob Harms

The cranes are easily disrupted. What we're trying to do is prevent the kind of activities, such as commercial and industrial activities, that could interfere with the cranes.

Luis Figo

Everything started to go wrong at Real after those first three years when commercial decisions took precedence over sporting ones. They started signing players for the sake of signing them. When things are like that sooner or later you pay for it.

Jon Favreau

I don't want to be an art-house movie guy, where people who go to film school can discuss your work, but people who haven't studied cinema can't appreciate it. By the same token, I don't want to be the guy who's making this commercial pap that people lap up but that disappears the minute you leave the theater.

Lee Brumbaugh

Today his commercial work is probably his most interesting. Today his commercial work is considered urban industrial documentary. It foreshadows Walker Evans's documentary work of the 1930s.

Darius Rucker

Dave LaChapelle talked me into it, ... I thought it was going to be no big deal, probably not too many people would see it. Then I was having a party during the Daytona 500, and it was the first commercial on it. I told my wife, 'Honey, I think I'm in trouble.'

Ben Rekhi

It's kind of like the underdog story, but it's really in the details and the writing that makes it unique. We all have high hopes. I really think out of the three that I've done, this is the one that's got the most commercial crossover potential.

Jerry Seinfeld

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I'm making 22 minutes; I know there's a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

Richard Marshall

We are concerned about development on Hackett Hill, and they're concerned about commercial development around 3A.

Gaby Hoffmann

My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

Michael A. Stackpole

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

Julie Rochman

It is not surprising that public officials in Louisiana are trying everything they can to recover dollars for those whose lives were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. But insurance contracts are contracts.

George Carlo

If I was a CIO or corporate IT manager, I would make sure my employees used them safely; they should all have a headset,

Ken Georgetti

How much more evidence does the government need that across-the-board corporate tax-cuts are a drag on the economy?

Debora Spar

If corporate profits do go down, it's highly likely that we could see the U.S. tumble into a recession.

Winson Fong

The economy is picking up and corporate profitability has recovered.

Merton Miller

For me, as an economist, it was frustrating to have no sense of a theory of corporate finance to tie all this material together.

Tom Pickard

This organization embraced the American corporate ideal and would sell any drug that would turn a profit.

Michael Gartner

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers, ... That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

Douglas Love

There's a huge problem with odometer tampering, but you usually don't find it with reputable rental or corporate fleet cars,

Bruce Bell

it's about workers' right to job security and a decent standard of living, versus Telus's unrestricted corporate greed.

Lynn Hightower

Horses are part of our Western heritage that we love to celebrate. From that point of view it really is kind of a sad day. But it's also a day where the department needs to be accountable to taxpayers.

Ken Goldstein

Some of the department store sales don't make sense to me,

Menzies Campbell

Look at every department of state and I will show you bureaucracy and regulation, an ever-greater threat to enterprise, diversity and freedom.

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

Joaquin Phoenix

What the training did was teach me to trust my equipment and trust the other people that I'm working with, ... The firefighters will say, 'You should always be scared. If you're not scared then you should get out of the department because that's when you get hurt.' You have to have a level of fear and a level of respect for what it is you're doing, and if not, I think it breads a level of complacency, which is very dangerous.

Natalie Massenet

The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.

Judie Brown

The police department was handed this on a silver platter and did nothing. That's how I feel.

David Donnelly

We followed the letter of the law. We did what we were directed to do by the state Department of Pensions.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Joseph Sullivan

A general meeting will be scheduled as soon as possible.

Charles Kennedy

As someone who has led his party through two general elections, I have not always been immune from feeling the pressure of electioneering tactics.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Kate Warne

What an ugly day. A day you didn't want to be around to watch. It was just a market that was nervous and unhappy about the news of the day.

Mark Skousen

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Robert Stephens

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

David Goldstein

In the first year, we wanted to test the water and see what kind of market there is out there.

Cai Rumohr

In normal market it could get back to 60.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.

Charles Kingsley

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Arleigh Burke

Success can not be administrated.

Abdallah II of Jordan

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

Colin Powell

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Colin Powell

In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces than your enemy has over his is a force multiplier. Having greater logistics capability than the enemy is a force multiplier. Having better-trained commanders is a force multiplier. Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.

Clara Barton

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Duane G. Carey

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

Donald Trump

I like the concept of the penny plan - not for the military because the military we have to build up. But we can save probably in many case more than a penny if you look at it. I mean, the penny plan is a pretty good plan, and it's a pretty simple plan.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.