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.

Gary Kelly

Denver has been a missing link in Southwest's system for too long, and we've known the demand for Southwest Airlines service is strong in Colorado. Today, we're not only celebrating the start of our new service, but we're pleased to announce two new destinations that Southwest Airlines will serve nonstop from Denver International Airport.

Joe Gill

This oil shock could cause more damage to the industry than 9/11. That was a one-day tragedy that knocked airline demand and oil prices for six months. This oil price move is more sustained, and could trigger a slowing in consumer demand, the nightmare scenario for most airlines.

William Rochelle

The other airlines have not been making significant compromises. United Airlines certainly didn't. It's hard to imagine that Delta would cave, but who knows?

Tad Hutcheson

We're very high on Akron. The goal of the airline and the goal of the Akron airport are the same -- we want to offer as much service as possible and also make it worth our while by making a profitable return on our investments.

Gregory Olsen

One hundred years ago, airline flight was reserved for only a few brave souls. Everyone flies (on planes) nowadays. The same will be true of space flight.

Stuart Klaskin

It is an economic analysis, but the problem is that there's also an ego factor at many airlines. That's when a CEO says something like we need to have a presence in the Denver-to-London market even if it loses money because everyone else has it. I can't tell you how many times I've seen that. It's one of the biggest mistakes an airline can make.

Richard Berman

Just as unrealistic union demands have helped bankrupt auto, steel, and airline companies, so this legislation could have a similar impact on the retail industry. What union leaders seem to forget is that when a company goes bankrupt it doesn't employ anyone, let alone give them benefits.

Jim Higgins

I see it as a lose-lose situation. Integration problems with airline mergers are legendary.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

Mike Redmond

I've played through it, but it just got to the point where that was it. I couldn't basically run. I feel good about doing everything I could. I battled through a majority of the season, especially the last two weeks.

Steve Silverthorn

The whole idea is to basically beat the pass to where it's going. You have to have an idea, you wanna know at all times where everybody on the ice is.

Norman Cook

The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you sort of spreading the word in different cities.

Jesse Hathaway

The whole basis for Odyssey Interactive was basically a product of brainstorming at Donkey coffee. We literally sat around a coffee table shooting ideas off of one another.

Daniel Horowitz

You scream, you cry. But I just basically sat with her, and I just told her, 'I love you, and you're beautiful,'

John Koppin

Customers simply look around, if we raise a rate, we are basically chasing our customer to the cable company, we are chasing our customer to take out their wire line phone and go totally wireless. So it doesn't make a lot of sense from a marketing standpoint for us to do that.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Todd Tripp

We'll get after it in practice next week. It's regional time. We'll see what happens.

Joe Newman

We'll do better next season. We'll have statistics and up-to-date standings on our Web site. And we'll probably have 16 teams in the playoffs. I think 24 teams this season is too many.

David Whiles

We'll let that percolate for the next 30 days.

Chris Masoner

You'd like to stop them all, but sometimes there's not much you can do. You just have to get ready for the next opportunity.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Marc LaVorgna

Basically, the plane is stuck in the mud.

Bob King

You'll never find a more accommodating plane than the Cessna 120. I was always anticipating more in the years ahead, when time and the like allowed.

Billy Mays

Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Wil S. Hylton

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

Patrick Surtain

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

B.J. Upton

We haven't had a lot of time yet,

Brian Eno

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

Donald Miller

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Thornton Wilder

Heaven's my destination.

Ray Bradbury

I don't know anything anymore

Sharon Shinn

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

Shane Koyczan

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

Shana Alexander

Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.