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.

Ajay Prasad

Passengers on low-cost airlines have a common complaint that they are not given meal or accommodation in case of delays.

Jim Carter

Our New England customers deserve nothing less than the very best. These improvements will make flying in and out of Boston on American Airlines and American Eagle even more convenient and enjoyable for both the business and leisure traveler, while delivering on our overall goal of improving our customers' travel experience.

Michael Allen

In some cases, the airlines were buying one of just about everything, because they thought they had an application for everything. It turns out they were wrong.

Terry Trippler

I think all of the airlines will feel this. It's a little more than a blip, but New Orleans and Gulfport alone is not going to put Delta into bankruptcy. I think $70 a barrel oil is the straw that would break the camel's back.

Terry Trippler

I think all of the airlines will feel this (and) ... $70 a barrel oil is the straw that would break the camel's back.

Ken Ham

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

Brett Hall

Jack's doing a fine job, and he should be left alone by all the political hacks that want to take shots at him.

Fernando Remirez

Juan Miguel said very clearly that he's ready to come alone to any city to pick up his child as soon as possible.

Keith Terry

It brought up a lot of mixed feelings, ... At a certain point I realized I just had to let go and let it wash over me. And it was such a remarkable collection of people playing amazing music. Just the vibe in the room, I'd never felt so appreciated. I'm an only child and it's easy for me to feel alone in the world, and it counteracted a lot of the thoughts that I have running in my head. It was such a clear outpouring of love and generosity from people. That's a remarkable feeling, one that I don't normally let myself enjoy.

Source Unknown

Have you ever watched a stonecutter at work? He will hammer away at a rock for perhaps a 100 times without a crack showing in it. Then, on the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before as well.

Darren Benitez

He left the car alone and when he came back to the car it was gone.

Sugata Mitra

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

Danielle Berry

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

Daniel Greenberg

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

John Yarmuth

Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it.

Darryl Kennedy

He'd been having a good year down in A-ball, and he's showing why he's up here. He's got a nice short, little, simple swing. He's just finding the barrel every time.

Mark Waggoner

Half a million barrels in and of itself is not going to change a hell of a lot. But if it is prolonged or we have further threats, that will move the market higher.

Gerald Perry

His timing is great. He's putting the barrel of the bat on the ball. He's laying off tough pitches off the plate.

Fred Dickson

I think it's going to be the earnings, I see that as probably on everybody's minds this morning. I'm probably more concerned with oil at around $67 a barrel than I am about Japan.

Donald Selkin

I think it's interesting that on a day when crude oil closes over $50 a barrel for the first time, the market is flying.

Mike Bryan

It hurts. It doesn't feel good to let your team down when you are staring down the barrel of giving yourself a two-set lead.

Chuck Carlson

I think the bullish case is emboldened by the fact that, despite a lot of reasons, investors just haven't been willing to sell stocks en masse yet, ... Had someone told you 18 months ago that oil would reach $70 a barrel and gas would be $3.00 plus for a gallon, and the Dow Transports would only be 200 points off their all-time highs, you would have never believed it.

Joe Speed

The people here have a tremendous interest in team roping, barrel racing and the youth rodeo.

Vince Young

I would try to break the huddle early so I could check with Jamaal to make sure he knew who to block, ... He always knew who he had. I don't have to worry about Jamaal, he's picked up everything fast. He's tough and his speed is crazy.

Bryce Fisher

Jake is playing with so much confidence. When you're in the playoffs, you don't have that grind of the regular season and can be at your best. He's doing a great job of breaking down the other team and he's making plays.

Michael Robertson

Josh is locating his curveball better now, whereas a year ago he mostly threw fastballs and change-ups. You'll probably see him throw his breaking pitch a little more now.

Jim Sterk

I think it's a good thing for us. We've done it in football, and during the winter break it makes sense to do that in basketball.

Grady McCluskey

I think it's about 50-50 with (LSU) and Ole Miss right now. He said he's still committed to LSU. I guess his visit to LSU will make it or break it as far as what he wants to do." ()

John Austin

It can't be done. We don't rely on this to make any money. Breaking even would be good enough.

Jennifer Kern

It can have consequences of breaking down communication, of creating rebellion, breaking down relationships of trust.

Robert Foley

It breaks up into very small fragments so it is quite technically complicated to put it all back together again,

Casey Looze

It breaks my heart that she went to federal prison. This lady was so sick, so frail. It just breaks my heart.

John Hickenlooper

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.

Phil Baggaley

It seems that this is rather less than what Delta was hoping for.

Christina Ricci

W called me 'the young Delta Burke.' It's so silly. I weigh 105 pounds and wear a size two, but for some reason I'm a heavyweight.

Edward Collins

With the Micron earnings quite a disappointment and the Delta outlook, technically we were very overbought on a short-term basis.

Terry Trippler

Northwest seems to have a better grasp on what it's doing than Delta does. Delta raises fares and announces a sale at the same time. Northwest is making the adjustments they have to.

Chris Kelly

Delta is uniquely positioned to be successful in these (European) markets. We can do it without purchasing new aircraft.

Dave Roy

Delta is a team that's always real competitive. We are pointing to them as the top team in the league. They are well-coached and have great ballplayers.

E. Hicks

It would be devastating. Delta would not operate. We would not fly and there are no contingency plans. But there?s a long way from now until a potential strike.

Robert Twilley

This is one of the most industrialized, highly engineered delta systems in the world.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Sarah Palin

Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

Rodrigo Rato

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Veerappa Moily

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

Van Jones

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

Rodney Dangerfield

People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon .

Wesley Clark

The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.

Vinod Khosla

We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.

Jay Campbell

or any other humanitarian service organizations because it's vitally important to the people of New Orleans and the surrounding parishes who need food, shelter and clothing.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.

David Wagner

They don't have much New Orleans to come to right now.

Wayne Gandy

You can't just be thinking about yourself now. Watching what's going on back in New Orleans just makes you thankful you're not in that situation.

Robin Milano

There was no water in it. We're in the 10-20 percent of New Orleans that was not flooded.

Paul Tagliabue

I told our owners (while planning the event) that this would be a true celebration of the New Orleans Saints, and, before you know it, they'll be America's team.

Wayne Gandy

Our situation is uncomfortable. But for the people in New Orleans it's catastrophic.

Mike Tidwell

The same levees that made New Orleans inhabitable have now made New Orleans uninhabitable.

Shawna Graham

I've been going there since I was 6 years old. But they're going to have a whole new New Orleans than what we did. It will never be the same.

Edmund Spenser

Oft stumbles at a straw.