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.

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.

David Chestnut

The business community of Rantoul is frustrated with the redevelopment of the base by the bureaucratic Air Force. We felt the Air Force is taking its time and blaming the lack of progress on budget constraints. It was time for us to take some action.

Steve Gregory

The breathing is different, the air is different and once you get all those people in there, it's a really special place.

Jim Hall

The board will try to determine if those impact marks -- as well as the stripping of both nuts' threads -- were made before the aircraft contacted the water or after,

John McPhee

A tympanic resonance, so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare.

Harley Shaiken

Bankruptcy is allowing airlines to emerge with a clean slate, but it's bad news for workers. Pensions will be affected, and it will mean lower wages and probably fewer jobs.

R. Robinson

The burden of this crisis cannot be borne by workers and retirees alone.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Hooman Majd

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

Harry Shearer

The music was born on the pianos of the front parlor of the brothels.

Bhagavad Gita

Adhering to this view these lost souls, with small intellect and cruel deeds, are born as enemies for the destruction of the world.

Rig Veda

The one in whose control are horses, cows, villages, all chariots; the one who has caused to be born the sun, the dawn; the one who is the waters' leader, he, O people, is Indra.

Susan Stewart

The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.

Robin Marantz Henig

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Charles Dickens

Some people . . . may be Rooshans, and others may be Prooshans; they are born so, and will please themselves. Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Ron Perry

Authorities are worried. Our fire conditions, as far as the grasses and the brush, in all of Texas except for the coast are in extreme fire danger.

Ken Goldstein

The storms and flooding, and now the rebuilding and dislocations in the Gulf Coast area, are taking place in a weakening national labor market.

Haley Barbour

This is not just a coast calamity. All the way up in the state, there's terrific damage,

Larry Jones

This is the eighth truck for the Gulf Coast that Kathy has sponsored. And it further illustrates Kathy's dedication to helping those in need following the greatest natural disaster in the history of our country.

Eugenie Clark

It would be nice if we didn't have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continental shelf on the west coast of Florida, and it would be a real disaster if we had a major oil spill there. It would be wonderful if we could find some other source of energy.

Loretta Napoleoni

The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.

Ted Turner

And you can coast on that reputation for a long time but if you're going to hold that position, which I think would be the most profitable position, too, you have to earn it.

Brad Childress

Even though he has been part of this West Coast Offense, all of them go different ways. It kind of splinters off, and you head your own direction. So, some of the things that Detroit was doing, we are not doing the same way here. He has to learn the way you are doing it and how you are reading it and how you are looking at it and our verbiage.

George H. W. Bush

Even in the deepest darkness, we can see the light of hope. We will make the Gulf Coast more vibrant than ever.

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Joel Edgerton

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

Stephen Rand

After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.

Babe Ruth

What the hell difference does it make?

Barry Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Barbara Mikulski

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Brian Tracy

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

Brad Pitt

This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?

Jane Goodall

We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.

Elliot Washington

The third quarter, we had energy and played. But you can't turn the water faucet on and off.

Tom Glavine

The thing that stuck out about him was his energy and enthusiasm when he played. He was a fun guy to watch.

Matt Doherty

The thing about New Orleans is that you step out of your hotel and you feel the energy and see the fans decked out in school colors, ... And then of course, after the game you knew you had a place to celebrate.

Juan Flores

I've loved soccer all my life. I've seen many leagues in Houston, and now I get to come home and see it here. The energy and the fans screaming was just great.

Christina Sims

I use to worry all the time about being ultra organized. I had to figure out where I was going to get the energy to do everything so things are a little different than when he left. After being in Iraq, I don't think he is going to worry about it if there is a stack of papers sitting here.

Kobe Bryant

I wanted to come out in the third quarter and provide some energy and the shots started falling.

Yoshinori Ono

a fresh start, new energy and opening a new era ... to improve peace and security.

Lex Bouwmeester

The oil price remains high and that might help energy companies. Otherwise, it's a mixed picture.

Johnnie Burton

The offshore energy industry has compiled an outstanding safety record that allows development of these resources without significant risk to the environment.

Matt Braeuer

As a kid, that was my dream. I always said that's where I want to be, in the middle of the madness. As long as things go as expected, I think we'll be in the middle of it.

Brad Thor

After 9/11, if people made movies about terrorism, the U.S. was evil and Muslims were misunderstood: 'Lions for Lambs,' 'Stop-Loss,' 'Rendition.' Well, all these movies didn't do particularly well. In Hollywood, people scratched their heads, but the reason they didn't do well is because in Middle America, people want to see their values triumph.

James Altucher

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

Carrie Coon

I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but also really appreciating it in a way that you can't when you're in the middle of it.

Bruce Buchanan

That used to be his sanctuary, out in the middle of rural Texas where he could get his mind off his troubles. And now his troubles are right down the street.

Jessie Davis

That's my truck on the road. I see it. It's in the middle of the road.

Sami Abdulbari

You pull a lot more as a guard. You're always in the middle of the action.

Richard Johns

There are more valid arguments for fifth-grade being in the middle school than not.

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Dave Duncan

You never know when you might need help.

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Christopher Paolini

Even positive reviews would make me feel self-conscious while I'm writing.

Martin Buber

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

Robert Schenck

It was tough today because I had to power through my throws. I was only able to glide through on one.

Mike Mower

This is a power grab, pure and simple.

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Baha'u'llah

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Brad Gilbert

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Alan Garner

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Jane Austen

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Coco Chanel

It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them

Charles Spurgeon

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

Eckhart Tolle

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Eileen Caddy

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Betty Anderson

There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass.

Tom Stringfellow

There's not a lot of room for error.

Auguste Comte

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Arthur Koestler

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Bertrand Russell

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Octavia E. Butler

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

Calvin Coolidge

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Charles Kettering

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Charles Kettering

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

Charles Darwin

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Richard Sharp

It will be surprising if they do not salvage it -- 350ft of water is not that deep.

Lynn Fegley

It's not surprising in years when you have a warm burst.

Robert Heaney

It's not surprising there was a blunted response.

Steve Bisley

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Rumi

You transform all those who are touched by You.

Oscar Wilde

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Stacey Hallahan

You'll be touching it or combing it, and it'll come out in pieces.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

J. K. Rowling

Sirius — it’s me . . . it’s Peter . . . your friend . . . you wouldn’t . . .” Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. “There’s enough filth on my robes without you touching them,” said Black.

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.

Walter Benjamin

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

Jamie Brown

It touched the ceiling, ... They don't look as big on the farm.

Frank Iero

When the water touched my balls, that's when I got scared.