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.

Chris Mecray

I don't know if it would have killed the A3XX, but it would have been a major blow. With the aircraft in its infancy, every order is important. For Boeing, losing the order is too bad, but it was not a must-win order.

James King

I saw it climbing up in the air. It was making a steep climb that you usually don't see aircraft do like that. And just as I was wondering why was he making such a steep climb up then the plane sort of flattened out and took a nose dive straight down until it hit the ground.

Roger Altman

We live in an era where the global capital markets are the super power in the world, and when they move against you as they've moved against Russia, as we've all seen in the ruble, there's nothing that can stop that.

Jim Mills

Currency trading has been one of the fastest-growing segments of the electronic trading universe in recent years. As a pioneer in this market, Gain Capital has helped drive the growth of the market and has become a highly profitable company.

Sonny Kalsi

We have a very constructive view on China: We like the economic story and we like the real estate story. We have a very deep pipeline and there are a lot of things going on. I wouldn't be surprised if we invest this year as much capital in China as we do in Japan.

Anthony Chan

Next year it may be tepid with a capital T.

Michael Fishbin

Capital sources are circling the primary hotel markets in the U.S. now, looking for opportunities to own new hotels as soon as they are completed.

Gavin Graham

Capital markets performance was excellent, a blow-out quarter.

Zhang Qi

Capital is tight at the end of the year.

Shang Fulin

But we should go about opening our capital markets in a sound and cautious way, to protect our own industries and the stability of China's economic growth,

Chen Xingdong

China has now entered the era where it will gradually have to lets its currency appreciate, unless China is able to make a substantial change to its capital account.

Bill Maris

CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.

Carl Hiaasen

These are all kids who are going to be growing up to vote. They have a much clearer idea of the kind of world they want to live in, ... I like to think sanity will prevail.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Dick Cheney

I understand how tough it is. You make it abundantly clear how tough it is. I hear it from our troops. I read the reports every night.

Chuck D.

This is supposed to make it clear if a firm is really just a shill for clients.

Greg Dunn

This is powerful technology and no one is clear exactly where it is going,

Joe Beck

This is poor judgment. I want to make it clear that this does not involve the student, this is two adults.

Daniel Fried

The Uzbek government made it clear that we need to leave the base, and we intend to leave it without further discussion.

Michael Carty

The weakness today doesn't concern me, ... There's a little profit taking after the five up sessions and there's some jitters over the dollar's decline, but I think it's pretty clear that the earnings are going to be quite good.

Steve Allen

The universe really is accelerating. By using Chandra to study galaxy clusters, we have obtained strong new evidence for dark energy and clear and direct confirmation that the expansion of our universe is accelerating.

Gurinder Kalra

Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

William Daley

Despite the progress we have seen over the last week, we still do not have the 218 votes yet to win it, ... In the end, I am optimistic we will pull it out.

Patricia Ryan

Despite some of the closings we've had, we seem to be doing all right. With the rain and everything, there was some question at first, but we seem to be holding our own right now.

Michael Cox

Despite our directive to the National Journal to replace the ad, it was not replaced as requested, which resulted in its publication this week.

Lee Matthews

This was a very competitive tennis match despite the 7-2 score. We gave Southern a run for their money; we just couldn't pull out the doubles.

Eddie Quick

With four minutes left, I really thought we were going to win despite guys fouling out. The score was in the right spot for us.

Mike Viracola

The trend on the market is still down. In general, technology seems to be the weakest part and that seems to be selling off despite OK numbers.

Casey Wilson

What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and, to me, hilarious.

Alfredo Alonso

When the population is over 40 million, people take notice, including advertisers and broadcasters.

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

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.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

Tim Shea

One of the things I'm trying to do, and we all need to do, is look outside our public schools.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

Joe Torre

I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility,

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Thomas Frank

We're trying to put all the pieces together.

Klaus Wowereit

No question about it, it is a glitzy scene but that is also part of Berlin,

Tim McCarver

There's no question that Roberts is in Gordon's head.

Mark Martin

There's no question that it has become more reckless.

Todd Harris

There's no question that independent voters are an important part of our winning formula.

G. H. Hardy

There's no question I'm going to have to come in and separate myself from the other players, somehow, some way.

Tom Izzo

There's no question he's pressing right now and I kind of feel for him.

Tom Coughlin

There's no question he can play a lot better.

Willie Gawlik

There's no question about it, we need to get back on the right track.

Doug Cottam

There's no question about it - hair-loss syndrome is still a problem.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

H. P. Lovecraft

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'