Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Goodman

The strike is the first by Iberia's pilot's since it was privatized and the company says the present row could lead to it losing $100m, canceling aircraft orders and cutting jobs.

Mary Schiavo

The rule of thumb is that aircraft are built for a 20-year economic life. That doesn't mean they fall out of the sky after 20 years. But it does mean they need tender loving care.

Joe McBride

The work will be a hardship while it's under way for a lot of the aircraft owners and operators. However, the feedback we're getting is they recognize it's important for the long-term use of the airport.

Gao Hongfeng

China will purchase more than 100 aircraft each year in the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10).

Robert Englund

My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.

Doug Parker

If we can make it work -- fine. But we also have a problem with aircraft (being able to fly the route).

Ed Stewart

Simplicity is the key. It is a marvelous thing to have crews that can fly on any airplane at any time, and to have a maintenance department work on a single aircraft type.

John Sams

Long-lead suppliers are doing work on that 180th aircraft and in some cases have completed work.

Robert Milton

Looking forward, the revenue picture is expected to continue to strengthen as we increase capacity in North America with new large regional aircraft deliveries.

Douglass North

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

Derek Kilmer

I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.

Guy Burgess

The problem of dealing with conflict on a large, sort of society-wide scale, is a bit analogous to building a complex aircraft. You need a whole lot of different parts. You can't fly an airplane with just a jet engine, you need wings, you needs control surfaces, you need avionics, you need a seat for the pilot, fuel tanks, all sorts of stuff.

Ron Reagan

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

Sissy Spacek

Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

Socrates

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Nolan Bushnell

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.

Misha Collins

I think participating in GISHWHES is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.

Edmund Mierzwinski

Bank fees are still increasing and big banks are charging bigger fees. It's a serious problem for consumers.

Mark Chandler

The simple fact that the trade sector has ceased to be a significant drag on growth will be enough to convince the Bank of Canada to move on September 7 (and beyond).

Jerry Evans

It would seem the bank now realizes that we are falling into a bit of a deep hole.

Arthur Levitt

The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of targets includes plenty of Fortune 500 players, including Bankers Trust, Cendant, Waste Management and W. R. Grace.

Jimmy Swaggart

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

Kofi Annan

What happens in the West Bank is very much on our mind, ... For us, the Quartet, it's Gaza first and then the next stage will be the West Bank, not Gaza first and Gaza last.

Kate Carr

The purchase of Consolidated provides the bank with less expensive cost of funds and an inexpensive entry into the Richmond market, ... If you look at the demographics of Richmond, we think it's an opportunity to spur investment. Only time will tell if we overpaid.

Stephen Koukoulas

The credit data, together with the TD-MI monthly inflation gauge for October suggest the Reserve Bank will leave interest rates unchanged,

Alex Beuzelin

Ongoing fears of possible Bank of Japan intervention combined with renewed rumors of a possible downgrade of Japan's credit rating also weighed on the yen.

David Chang

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.

Bayan Jabr

Approximately 18 innocent men who were inside the mosque performing sunset prayers were killed and became martyrs. They were killed unjustly and wrongfully.

Josie Loren

I was a gymnast when I was younger. My parents put me in gymnastics, and I was actually only good at the floor. I was terrible at everything else, especially beam. Unfortunately, you can't be a gymnast unless you're good at all of the apparatuses, so I became a competitive cheerleader. I was just the main tumbler for my squad.

Clete Oaks

When I became chief of the life squad, my goal was to build a nice building where we could sleep and get out faster.

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Bible Bible

And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.

Arthur Hamlin

Love made the team, but James and I saw we weren't going to get a uniform. We didn't see the need in sitting the bench our senior year, so we became their No. 1 fans. We didn't have cars back then, so we would thumb rides to the away games.

Ravi Shankar

Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.

Horst Koehler

Solidarity became the symbol of this fight and a worldwide symbol of freedom,

John Street

I've been an elected official now for 24 years, and I value my integrity very highly, ... And this speculation about whether or not I'm a target of any federal investigation has caused some concern.

Mary Lyons

Like the rest of the country, we have watched in complete disbelief the devastating reports of death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina,

Toba Beta

If I lie about the truth which you will know somehow later, then you would tell me a liar.If you dig further about truth which caused me to lie, then you would understand my reason.

Rem Murray

It caused my head to turn totally to the left, and it was frozen there for quite some time,

Rich Zurek

We see there is a lot more layering on Mars than was previously thought and whatever the mechanism was that caused it has gone on for a long time.

Luigi Pirandello

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Otto Loewi

In the year 1921, I was successful for the first time in obtaining certain proof that by stimulation of the nerves in a frog's heart, substances were released which to some extent passed into the heart fluid and, when transferred with this into a test heart, caused it to react in exactly the same way as the stimulation of the corresponding nerves.

Jane Goodall

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I'd caused the dragonfly to be killed.

Geoff Mulgan

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Alaina Huffman

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

Tom Jenkins

I've been playing some good golf for the last month and a half. I knew I was coming close to winning. My goal now is to win twice in a year, I've never done that.

Jason McCartney

I've been close a number of times here - to get so close and... I guess I was watching the wrong guy for the sprint. It was great riding with John. I wish it could have been just me and him for the sprint. I'm sorry I let the team down today - I know it's a big race for them. I'll just keep coming back next year.

Vicente Fox

They all died in the line of duty, ... They are heroes ... I have lost not just a co-worker, but a close friend, Ramon.

Robert Eenhoorn

The world has recognized that we are competitive. It used to be, how much are we going to lose by? Then we'd try to close that gap during the game. Now, when we step on the world stage, we expect to win.

Stanley Brand

These are staggering numbers, even by Washington standards. The big firms do very, very well, but they don't come close to these kinds of numbers.

Tim Collins

The river gauges are actually showing a recede. They're actually going down some from where they were yesterday. But they'll start going back up tonight and tomorrow. We'll start getting back close to where we were over the weekend.

Marguerite Cotto

We tend to think of program closure as a last resort.

Jim Newman

It means a lot to all the veterans, and I think they'll all have closure now that they never could have before, and they'll be able to talk about experiences there that they never were able to, before,

Rebecca Kane

Sophomore year was a total 180 degrees from my freshman year. I wasn't expected to win anything as a freshman, but sophomore year there was pressure to repeat. I like that kind of pressure.

Ben Jonson

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

James Braun

We found that you can go down to 70 degrees and people will not complain. In fact, they won't even notice.

Ken Cockrell

We have a 31,000 module about 30 feet long, 14 feet in diameter, and we have to have it within 2 degrees of wobble to being perfectly lined up or it won't work.

Alex Borstein

I got my degree in rhetoric.

Vladimir Orszagh

There was a holiday in Slovakia and the holidays in the U.S., so it took a long time to get all the papers organized. As soon as I got it, I flew over.

Alan G. Poindexter

I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Joyce Walker

Get low and shuffle. You've got to harass her.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Kim Carnes

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

Lev Grossman

It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.

Michael Wright

We want to keep prices as low as possible.

Rick Davis

We didn't have low expectations in Iowa, we had no expectations in Iowa.

Taisen Deshimaru

If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.

Jane Porter

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

Paul Merson

You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Woody Allen

[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.