Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.

Isabella Bird

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

Isabella Bird

The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors. It is conveyed to you in letters: the air is full of it.

Giles Foden

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

Yani Tseng

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

Clay Shirky

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.

John Remington

The pilots would argue they're free to strike, and the airline would argue they legally couldn't. It's unclear. But the pilots are satisfied they could legally strike. And if they can't, they may do it anyway.

Niki Lauda

The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.

Yanis Varoufakis

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

Tina Brown

To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security.

Irwin Thomas

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

Wentworth Miller

I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an entertainer, they're automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. They're just doing their own version of entertaining.

Alexander Farrell

The (past) studies that reported a negative net energy assumed one should ignore co-products.

Brian Kernighan

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

Ben Elliot

I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons.

Bill Hader

It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'

Wole Soyinka

You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.

Bryan Whitman

That was rumored a year ago and never proved to be confirmed.

Patricia Marx

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

Derek Dennis

We hadn't been down like that in a long time. It was up to us to go out and prove why we've been on top of the state rankings all season.

John Gibbons

We wanted to make sure he was all right. He proved that he was today.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

Todd Pratt

I think Ryan's proven everything he can prove.

Paul Doerrfeld

We proved we could play with them. We just have to relax and play our game.

Folarin Campbell

We proved we can play with anybody. We proved we don't back down from anybody.

Hines Ward

We proved all the prognosticators wrong. This is a big win for us.

David Wright

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.

Alberto Lopez

Whatever is in the release is what we're saying officially.

Christian Gross

There is a JavaScript that has a lot of these things solved. Nobody's released it.

Jack Sheehan

He was immediately released to his place of employment.

Anita Allen

I can't release that information. We can't give out anything about salaries or bonuses.

Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Bill Hayden

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

Bruce Springsteen

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Venus Williams

You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

Brittany Snow

I stay out of the sun; I'm pretty fair. I don't tan - I burn, so I stay out.

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Neon Hitch

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

Arsene Wenger

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

Jose Gonzalez

That was the most important thing to see this weekend, to see where we are at. If we stay together as a team this year, we're going to do very well. I can't see us not making the playoffs.

Joe Gibbs

We'll probably stay the same way we are with kicking.

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.

Ashley Olsen

Usually when we're working we just stay in the hotel, but it was really nice.

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Dave Huber

That was ugly. I was waiting for the ugly duckling to turn into the swan, but it never happened.

Barry Trotz

That was the turning point. That was a big save.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Tom Price

I think Jaguar can turn it around, but right now it's tough. If I had only a Jaguar store, it would be very, very tough.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Bruce Allen

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

Rena Inoue

You just keep working on it until you get it.