Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Neeleman

I think it hurts profitability more than the business because the airlines have tried and tried to pass on higher fares, and it's not going to happen.

Tim Winship

Having a credit card associated with a frequent-flier program is a real money maker. Typically, airlines charge the credit-card company one or two cents for each mile issued. That can equate to millions of dollars.

Dan Garton

History was made tonight as American Airlines gave away more than 20,000 free, round-trip tickets as part of the largest-ever airline ticket giveaway. We believe in rewarding people for their loyalty, and tonight these devoted fans went home with free American Airlines ticket vouchers. Each Mavericks fan here tonight will soon have the opportunity to experience American's extraordinary new service from Love Field, and we look forward to showing them our special brand of appreciation.

Chris McGinnis

LaGuardia is one of the few airports in the country that is controlled by slots so there are only a certain amount of airlines that are allowed to take off and land.

Jim Reynolds

There is going to be a lot of shuffling as airlines ramp up their schedules.

George Novak

With mergers, we may see some difficulties as operations are merged, as employees learn to work together. So, it could still happen, but I think airlines learned a lot last year.

Wolfgang Mayrhuber

We are further extending our ... position ... in the premium segment, while other airlines are withdrawing from (it).

Kenneth Mead

I think it's unfair to characterize what the airlines have done as no progress. That's clearly not what we found,

Peter Fitzgerald

I think this assistance is too generous, it gives too much money, it goes far beyond compensating the airlines for those three days that government edict was in effect and the question I have is clearly we are compensating them for far more,

John Burdett

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

Pat Riley

He'd average 20 points a game if he was put in that role every night and I'll be damned if I'm not going to try to put him in that role - now. You forget a little bit about how good he can be if he gets good opportunities.

Andy Roddick

He kind of wrapped some presents for me and handed it over. I was average in most regards, but a win is a win. I feel like I'm on the verge of playing well.

Seth Shostak

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.

Tim Wagner

What you have to remember is average fares are at 20-year lows. When you run a fare sale off 20-year lows, you get fantastic fares.

Chubby Checker

Here I am the best batting average in the music industry and I'm a bye word in the industry. I really am. Compared to Rod Stewart, I mean, Rod Stewart big deal. I mean, I know he's good and everything, but I played a show two years ago and I had to star under Eddie Money.

Cathy Hay

Having said that, I think that on average prices will go higher. I suspect when we do our weekly pump price survey next week, we could well see prices push a little higher than they are today.

Duane Gubler

Hawaiians are pretty complacent sitting out here in the middle of the Pacific. I don't think the average person has any concept of the threat.

Charlie Warner

He's a great hitter. He's gone through a spell where things haven't dropped his way. His average is starting to climb again.

Hanya Yanagihara

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Amy Jones

Kevin wants to change the course of his life and just get out of the industry. It was his decision. It's a life choice.

Richard Applegate

I would try to talk to your employer and see if they would change the investments, ... You might as well try if the choices stink or the offerings are really expensive.

Jeff Murray

Jack Reynolds (the developer's attorney) told me that a simple language change in their development proposal resulted in the need to rezone the site. They changed the language from 'senior living' to 'age-restricted' and apparently, doing so requires a rezoning if they want to develop the site in the way that they propose.

Robert Boswell

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.

Mike Stoller

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

Al Bowman

Just to put that in perspective, a traffic ticket is a summary offense. It happened years ago in college. I think, obviously, Mike has changed quite a bit, as we all have, in these last eight years or six years. I'm sure he's not proud of these.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Dan Saferstein

Just when you think to expect the usual, you see straw truckers, fedoras and cowboy straws come out and change the trend.

Kit Harington

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.

Dan Hawkins

I was always fascinated by toys, and I just never outgrew it,

Greg Nichols

He was just so fascinated by everything about golf he'd do whatever you wanted him to do.

Gary Hume

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

Jen Kirkman

If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.

Nastassja Kinski

I'm fascinated by older people, but I need young people.

Peter Capaldi

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

William Baldwin

I'm fascinated by each individual story. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, "How did this happen?

Dirk Benedict

The idea of turning into a reptile fascinated me. Other than that, my role was kind of... well, I don't want to say boring, but rather ordinary. I was playing the helpless victim.

Richard Paul Evans

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Richelle Mead

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

Rex Reed

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Rose Macaulay

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Rose Macaulay

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Truman Capote

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Richard M. Nixon

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

Richard Russo

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.