Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Branson

We pamper our passengers like no airline pampers them.

While moving considerable parts of our business overseas would have provided overall greater savings, the successful restructuring in Australia also had the benefit of significant savings that would make the airline competitive.

With air balls you can never tell until the end. But I just grabbed it, took off down the lane and went coast-to-coast. It was a big boost and got everyone pumped.

With ailerons, you have one aileron goes down and one goes up and what that does is redistribute the lift on the wing, ... The downgoing aileron increases the lift, the upgoing decreases the lift but the overall lift of the airplane is unchanged.

Sheldon Whitehouse

I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping their emissions into the atmosphere and into the rivers and into the sea has been a very good thing for America. EPA stands watch for very important principles that go all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt.

Rebecca Pidgeon

A 'gossip partner' is someone you love and trust, with whom you may go through the day's events with impunity, and with whom you may air your feelings, without them falling asleep.

Dane Cook

I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

Damian Kulash

What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and catches you. And for about 30 seconds, you feel like there's no gravity. So what we did was we did a series of eight of those in a row. And every time we landed, we stayed perfectly still for the five minutes in between while the plane is setting up so that we could just continue the routine where we had left off. So the final video you see is all one take. And we seem to be weightless the entire time.

Dalton Trumbo

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

Dalton Trumbo

Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane. Most things are just the reverse from what people think. The higher you are the safer you are. The Earth down there, that, that-s your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter.

Curtis Sliwa

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

Dave Eggers

The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.

Dave Eggers

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

David Lehman

There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.

David Levithan

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

David Levithan

Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.

David Levithan

The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.

David Letterman

Former President Bush, to celebrate his 80th birthday, jumped out of an airplane. And if you've seen the polls, you know he's not the only Bush in freefall.

David Wong

John flung himself into a pseudo-karate stance, one hand poised behind him and one in front, posed like a cartoon cactus. I thought for an odd moment he had moved his limbs so fast they had made that whoosh sound through air but then I realized John was making that sound with his mouth.

Danica Patrick

If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

Daisy Ashford

I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.

Condoleezza Rice

I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile

Condoleezza Rice

I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

Ivan Pavlov

Facts are the air of the scientists. Without them you never can fly.

Fans make it feel like you are 3 to 4 degrees cooler by virtue of the air on skin, which produces a cooler effect.

Chuck Inglish

Fans are essential in the California heat. The ones with movement keep the air flow active - I need that.

Marion Blakey

Families are safer traveling in the sky than on the road. If requiring extra airline tickets forces some families to drive, then we're inadvertently putting too many families at risk.

Jack Evans

but other than that, the airlines are doing this on a volunteer basis. The crews on board are all volunteers.

But many building managers simply transfer smoking areas into the restaurants and cafeterias in the building, without requiring them to install air circulation systems such as exhaust fans.

Alex Berenson

One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets.

Peter Baynham

People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out of the bully's tires.

Ernest Hemingway

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

Douglas Adams

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.