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.

Ed Perkins

As far as the operation of the airline is concerned, almost nothing changes. People keep buying tickets, the airline flights operate as usual, and travelers would be hard-put to know that the bankruptcy ever happened.

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.

Rob Ayoub

As far as a lot of smaller companies go, there's always a risk but they have a reasonable amount of security through obscurity. If they take reasonable steps, they are pretty safe because they're not public targets and don't have the notoriety of a U.S. Air Force or Pentagon.

Jim O'Heir

As a radio DJ, I was on WRIN-WLQI. And even when I repeat it, it's horrifying. My morning sign-on, because it was in Rensselaer, Indiana, it'd be, 'You're on the air with Jim O'Heir in Rensselaer.' Ugh, oh my God, pathetic.

Kyle Brady

As a professional football player, I have quite a bit of time in the off-season to pursue other goals, ... I would drive by this little airport every day on the way to work and see these planes coming in and landing. I looked at it and said to myself, 'Hey, I think I can do that.'

Ron Barber

As a son of an airman who was stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, it is my honor to nominate young people to our military academies.

Larry Williams

As China grows and Boeing sells more airplanes there, China is going to need things like airport design, construction, control systems and related training,

Harold Ramis

As consultants, they actually delivered to us a fairly detailed scientific proposal that told us they would look for small changes in temperature and air pressure, as well as odors and vapors of different kinds, ... So, all of our equipment design was predicated on the 'what if?' reality.

Edward Bastian

These losses emphasize the need for the urgency with which we have to pursue route network and revenue improvements and the use of the bankruptcy process to reduce the cost and complexity of our business.

E. Hicks

We're a company in bankruptcy and have been operating on borrowed money.

Jim Donahue

Credit card companies, credit unions, many retailers, as well as the American people, have lobbied for bankruptcy reform for years.

Jon Cartwright

Bondholders need more details, but anything that would prevent a bankruptcy certainly would be a positive. It's hard to make this situation more complex than it is.

Karen Gross

While there are people for whom this is an easy ride, for the vast majority, bankruptcy is not an easy ride.

Bradley Belt

nothing in the bankruptcy code requires companies to skip their pension funding payments.

Jerry Weller

Restrict bankruptcy rules.

Michael Ward

I don't think it gets them out of their obligations. They have to find solutions and I do not believe bankruptcy is an option.

Luc Despins

I think there's a violation of the bankruptcy code. This court should direct those funds be returned to RCM immediately. This seems like a no-brainer.

Tom Harkin

We should be preparing right now, setting appropriations, for the introductions of Bradley fighting vehicles, tanks, armored personnel carriers and ground forces into Kosovo,

Ian Thomas

Under a code share relationship, it's very much a commercial relationship that allows the carriers to operate independently, even though they might be sharing seats on the same aircraft.

David Burks

The consumer long-distance sector is viewed as an albatross for all of the long distance carriers these days. AT&T is not the only one considering such an action.

Bob Harrell

None of the big carriers offer low pricing unless they are forced to,

David Stewart

At last count, there were about 50 low-cost carriers in Europe, which is totally unsustainable.

Tom Parsons

As we forecasted yesterday, it took less than 24 hours for the five remaining legacy carriers to match Delta's moves.

Chester Nimitz

A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder

Susanna Kearsley

As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.

Jonathan Anderson

The big question is what will happen over the next few years, ... Wages and costs are going up in China. The economy is already past its peak. This is no longer the easy money you had in 2002 and 2003.

David Marshall

Barge shipping costs have exploded. Right now, barge freight has traded at a record high, from the Ohio (River) to New Orleans.

Thomas Jefferson

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Don Pether

Profitability was negatively impacted by significantly higher costs for purchased slabs, raw materials and energy and a significant drop in market pricing.

Edwin Slaghekke

Production costs have now become the most important factor for oil companies. They will drag down the shares.

Anne Mulcahy

Our earnings performance in the fourth quarter met expectations with increased gross margins, lower costs and operational improvements. We delivered another quarter - and another year - of earnings growth.

Ron Dennis

Norbert's frustration is if it costs us the constructors' championship it is not particularly nice,

Catherine Hardwicke

Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

Alan Boss

Normally when you think of flea markets, you think of sweat socks and T-shirts. We're looking at young designers, art, photography, nothing mass-produced. We want to be cutting edge and unique.

Trilby Lundberg

Dealers are losing their profit margins, cutting prices to get sales,

Kari Fluegel

The shuttle is still on the cutting edge.

Rashad Anderson

A day hasn't gone by where I don't think about it. There's never a day I don't think about cutting down those nets again, the feeling we had in '04. We had a taste of it two years ago and we want it again.

Scott Briggs

Once we started making things more difficult for them, I don't think it was a coincidence that all of sudden we were cutting a little harder and we were screening a little better.

Ellen Russell

Sometimes right-of-center parties like deficits because it justifies cutting things. It can be very politically convenient.

Richard Preston

Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks.

Marjorie Brody

Say, 'I'm sorry,' only if you're not cutting off a speaker. Otherwise wait until later to apologize.

Robert Jones

As directed in a letter on March 7 demanding payment of wages, arrangements have been made to ensure that all employees are paid wages owed them.

Yusli Yusoff

As petrol prices increase, the global demand for more sustainable energy sources will also rise. Malaysia is the world's largest palm oil producers and palm oil is the world's most traded vegetable oil.

Mirko Mikelic

People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market.

Tom Bentz

Demand is snapping right back. Even with the high prices, there hasn't been that big an impact on demand.

Eivind Reiten

Demand for energy will double in the next decade. Energy supply is fundamental to societal value.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Ben Wood

Sony Ericsson's W800 Walkman phone and the K750 are seeing healthy demand in distribution and retail. They are in short supply at retail.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Ginger Reeder

People can still fantasize, ... This is about lightheartedness and holiday spirit.

Wayne Best

The strong spending volume Visa is experiencing, and the trends we've seen leading up to Thanksgiving, bode well for merchants this holiday season.

Steve Kernkraut

Thanksgiving weekend was strong and that lifted a lot of the retailers' results. I think they have momentum going into the holiday season.

Howard Morley

Sales are starting to get back up there after the holiday period and prices show no real sign of weakness.

E. B. White

This isn't going to be judged on whether we sell a lot of tops over the Web for the holiday season,

Diane Cilento

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

Deepak Chopra

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

Dominic Monaghan

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

Kobe Bryant

Any player that was going to come down the lane at that point in time, I was going to let him know that he just can't walk through there. I think we as a team have to do a better job of establishing that.

James Marsden

As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.

David Schwimmer

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

Eli Roth

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.

Darren Criss

As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a different sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, or anything.

Dick Vitale

As long as he doesn't take my job.

Johnny Damon

Randy did his job to keep us in the game. We need to score more than just two runs.

Source Unknown

Professionalism: It's NOT the job you DO, It's HOW you DO the job.

John Challenger

People see themselves moving (between) too many jobs today, too many companies.

Mark Atkinson

Yes, this is obviously a relief for us.

Russ Feingold

You are obviously very talented. And you also look healthy.

Quin Snyder

We've had some highs. This is obviously a low.

Jim Calhoun

Could he have played (Friday)? Probably. But obviously we didn't need him.

John Gamble

We are obviously relieved that so much work has resulted in a just and appropriate verdict,

Alan McCollough

We were obviously dissatisfied with the overall comparable-store sales decline,

Steve Loney

When you only have one touchdown in two games, you obviously have some things to fix.

Tyrone Marshall

You look at our record, obviously it doesn't tell the tale of the Galaxy,

Lyndsey Medders

Everything we do we're going to try to do it together. We obviously don't have any All-Americans on this team, so everything we do is going to have to be done by a group.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Tetsu Emori

The supply of oil is still ongoing; most people feel there won't be a disruption, so they're taking profit now, especially after Friday's sharp increase.

William Teague

So when there were reports of an 80-foot (24-meter) wave striking an oil platform, they called it a rogue wave. We think it wasn't a rogue wave.

Peter Schiff

This is similar to the 1970s when there was a permanent readjustment in oil prices.

Jane Hirshfield

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Ariel Sharon

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

Bobby Ray Inman

Iraq is not about oil.

Bob Dylan

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Bernie Sanders

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Jonathan Lewis

The season is not lost. We're still Virginia Tech.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

Patrick Rice

As the season went on, she got better and better.

James Cox

We want to end the season how we started it ? by winning.

Kevin Reilly

This season may not see a turnaround for us.

Matt Fisher

This was it. As a senior, the most important thing to do is to win and keep the season going.

Mark Banker

We try to stay healthy. We try to get everyone to make it to the season, through the season and beyond.

Henry Hudson

We're trying to get another 1991 season going. This is just a stepping stone.

Lillian Carter

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.

Matthew Lillard

I stayed at a Howard Johnson's once when I was 19 and that kind of scarred me for life.

Robert Hogan

He was ducking down, and he kind of stayed moving,

Darrel Mitchell

That stayed with me all night. Then it was pretty much over.

Jason Bowen

They stayed right in there, and after the first 10 minutes, Greenwood was never a threat to us.

Todd Galloway

I tried to (play) through it, but it stayed tight.

Juvenal

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Alain de Botton

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

Jane Austen

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Diane Ackerman

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Brian Eno

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Robert H. Connelly

This website is not your usual read-some-copy, look-at-some-pictures travel site,

e. e. cummings

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

E. M. Forster

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E. M. Forster

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.