Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Roberts

Any individual who touches a Northwest aircraft will be fully trained in the Northwest maintenance program. Some were furloughed from other airlines. Some are from vendors that already work on Northwest equipment. ... We recruited from a rather large pool the best we could get. They're certainly not off the street.

Daunte Culpepper

As far as being efficient and able to move the ball in the air like we always have, I think we will be. We've been doing it in the preseason and in the minicamps. I know we can move the ball. It's going to be fun and exciting to do that throughout the season.

Jeff Garcia

As coaches at Palma, we've always felt that Chad had tremendous Division I talent, ... But he's not your prototype 6-3 quarterback. And we don't put the ball in the air a lot here. It was a matter of convincing coaches he could play.

James Stover

As a result of this flight, the military remained in Yuma. Today the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground are important foundations of our economy.

Lindsay Bowen

As a player you try and just block that out until the end. I'm focused on the end of my career here, I don't want to look forward. Obviously, everything's up in the air with the future. But right now, right here, I just want to go out on a solid note.

Kevin Spacey

Arthur Miller had hoped it would premiere in London and was so pleased the possibility was in the air that it would come to the Old Vic because he loved this theater. We want to see that particular dream of Miller's come true.

Claude Hunter

Arthur Hamlin was running ball around the end. One of my teammates tripped. He was trying to keep from falling, but I thought he was grabbing at Arthur. I knocked him up in the air and he landed on his head. I was saying, 'Yeah I got you.' When he rolled over, I said, 'Oh my God! I blocked my own man.' It was so muddy, you couldn't tell.

Thomas Kiernan

As air tours become more widespread, keeping the noise from getting out of hand is an emerging concern throughout the National Park System ... We are encouraged that this Congress is moving quickly to ensure that national parks remain sanctuaries where people can get away from the intrusions of everyday life.

Donald Smithburg

The buildings have unsafe air to breathe, pervasive mold growing, and mechanical systems that were completely destroyed by the storm.

Douglas Brinkley

The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan , D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion.

Raghu Raghuram

Our experience over seven or eight years has been that when customers start using virtualization, they have a preliminary notion of what virtualization is. But once they get in and start using it, they see it's like a Swiss Army knife, and they can use it in many different ways.

Suliman Baldo

Deby has a very small army on whose loyalty he cannot count, so the edge he has is the French.

Gary Fife

Dean graduated from California two years ago and went into the Army, ... He's overseas now, and some of my other friends also have joined the military. My mother also got me interested by showing me pictures on the Internet of our soldiers and the conditions in which they are living in the Middle East. Their homes, in many cases, are in ditches and in the sand. I also learned that they really are in need of some of the basic day-to-day items most of us might take for granted, so I thought that would be the most useful thing to pursue.

Jim Jeffrey

The stand up of the army is doing very, very well. The police we're more concerned with.

Samina Ahmed

It would have made a difference if he had been elected president. It might have even made a difference if he had given up his title of chief of army staff,

Brendan Fehr

In a hospital, there's not anyone who's generally trying to do you harm. You're generally given a backstory about what happened to them, but not about their life, so you get to work on saving their life. But you know whose lives you're saving overseas, in the Army, to a certain degree. You know whether's it your guy or a bad guy, and it's generally not anybody in between.

Lois Lowry

Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.

Desiderius Erasmus

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

Bob Johnson

I spent six years in the marine corps and I think I played three games of poker in those years, ... If we have an out-of-date ordinance, let's look at it and see if it needs to be changed.

John Barry

My intent is not to point the finger. I still have a high regard for the corps. Holding back the Mississippi River isn't an easy thing to do. They've done an extraordinary job at flood control, and that's what makes this all the more devastating. I'm sure the corps is devastated, too. They know people put their faith in them and that faith was betrayed.

Larry Fitzgerald

He's a great person to be around, ... He's a great influence on not only me, but the whole receiving corps and this whole football team. He's going to help us out in the locker room and he's definitely going to help us out on the field.

Melanie Mayron

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.

Sam Page

The suspect got on the ground as commanded, and they took him without incident,

Ira Longini

The school itself plays a big role. It's just a massive mixing ground for respiratory illness.

Mark Warren

The security at the time had been delegated back to the ground exiting point, ... We wanted to make sure the referees were in a secure position with a minute to go.

Robby Ginepri

I served well and hit well off the ground and won the big points at the right time,

Steve Ford

The whole world, the whole nation, will be looking at New Hampshire in February, ... You have a unique opportunity to lay the ground work for a new era, a new millennium.

Cliff Nellis

This is going to help us get off the ground on our professional signature-gathering campaign.

Shane Warne

This ground has special memories for me. I have never lost a Test match here and there have been some pretty special individual moments for me here as well,

Herman Edwards

That's what we wanted, we wanted the shotgun. That's great, as long as it doesn't go on the ground. It went on the ground today.

Ralph Cooper

The ol' Marine sergeant is gone. We're all going to miss him.

Paul Watson

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

Donald Trump

We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies. Right now we only have 23.

Donald Trump

Not only the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines, everything is going away at a time when certainly we are at a top priority for making sure that doesn't happen. We're not respected to the extent that we were. And if we keep going like this, we won't be respected at all.

Ali Lohan

I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.

Drew Carey

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

Chuck Palahniuk

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

Renee O'Connor

I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.

Rick Riordan

Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. "You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.

Argus Hamilton

President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after surviving ten female accusers, he's been made an honorary member of the Tailhook Association.

Anthony Weiner

Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

Barbara Lee

Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

Ayn Rand

Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man’s fundamental right-the right to life-and establishes the fundamental principle of statism: that a man’s life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Once that principle is accepted, the rest is only a matter of time.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Carl von Clausewitz

The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

Carl von Clausewitz

After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.

Calvin Coolidge

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Carl T. Rowan

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

Greg Aiello

This is not a result of any specific threat.

Ben Hatfield

We are very discouraged by the results of this test.

John Thorne

The result was very predictable: Nothing. They went back to the Braves.

Will Herring

What that was a result of, I don't know. But whatever it was, we're going to get it fixed.

Rafael Benitez

We will wait to see the result of the scan.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is all about getting results.

Peter Drucker

Results is all that separates one company from another.

N. T. Wright

The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.

John Wooden

Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.

Mary Roach

A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.

Tariq Anwar

You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.

Marjorie Gubelmann

The truth is, I was D.J.-ing on my college radio station in 1987, and I was called 'Mad Marj.'

Pat Robertson

I've managed stations.

Tom Richardson

It pretty well emptied our station for a while.

Walter Salles

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

Afrojack

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.