Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nevil Shute

Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.

Natalie Massenet

The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

We don't have any choice. In weather like this, the luxury of air conditioning becomes something that's a matter of life and death.

Douglas Rushkoff

Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.

We've always known that the air quality on board flights wasn't the best, but there isn't much a passenger can do.

John Stossel

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

Amy Fisher

When I was a child, I played in trees a lot, ... I'm very attached to trees and trees being kind of strong and providing a source of comfort and cleaning the air and being homes for animals.

David Small

We're making sure the unit commanders here can still conduct their missions without the folks from Keesler, ... There are about 18,000 airmen in the theater, so we can pick up the slack.

We responded to the hurricanes with between 200 and 250 medical, security and logistic support personnel as well as aircraft from the Army and Air Guard sides. This was huge for us because it came two weeks after the BRAC decided to take us off the base closure list, which would have taken the C-130s used to help following Katrina.

We're sort of quiet out here, doing our thing. But we are ... going to be in a position to claim the title of third commercial airport for Chicago.

We're getting the message to cab drivers, airport staff and everyone that the World Cup isn't just happening in stadiums.

We're going to go beyond state and federal requirements for air emissions.

What they're doing is, they're bringing in fresh air and trying to pump out the bad air, and that's constant in the air filtration system, so, in this particular case, even though there are high levels, as long as that fresh air is being pumped in, you never know where you might find it.

When we bought it, there was no recognizable standard in place for utilities, the runway and for many of the buildings. Anytime you go from old dilapidated and crummy to new, it's going to cost something. We've given tenants at the airport the opportunity to lease something new.

When we arrived at the airport on Sunday, I thought a couple hundred people might meet us. We had thousands. I can't get over that response.

Mike Jackson

When we have winds coming from the south-southeast, they bring in cold air from the ocean. Ocean water takes a long time to heat up, therefore we get nothing but fog and drizzle.

When we got to talking about this, I knew in my heart it could be done. This community has never let us down when there is something as important as air service. We've come through in all sorts of circumstances, and this Essential Air Service is just the last of those little hurdles we've had to overcome.

What a lovely honor it is to have Spirit Airlines dedicate a new plane to our islands. We are most appreciative and wish Spirit Airlines wonderful success.

Steven Gerrard

What a lot of people tend to overlook when discussing Peter is that he's excellent on the floor as well as in the air

What a hurricane does is it completely disrupts persons' lives, ... Your meal, your sofa, your air conditioning, your clean street, the newspaper delivered, whatever -- each fragment of normalcy that you can get back to the people, it's very important for their well-being.

What actually started the shooting was a highway patrolman firing his carbine in the air a couple of times, intending it as warning shots, and others started shooting,

Cal Thomas

The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.

Caitlin Moran

I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

Bruno Schulz

Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after the whole of time has been distributed, divided, and allotted; events that have been left in the cold, unregistered, hanging in the air, homeless, and errant?

Carl Honore

Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

With this important decision, US Airways is taking a huge step towards building its position as a leading world airline and to remain globally competitive.

With this determination, I hope the era of, 'The sky is falling' is over. We must keep in mind the airport is here to serve our communities and not the other way around.

With the winter to summer transition, there's no air mattress below the high wire as far as surplus gas is concerned.

Steve Flesch

Woods are built to get the ball into the air quicker. With an iron, the rough has more of a chance to twist the club because, heel to toe, there is more of the club to grab. As long as these holes are, I'm just hoping to drive it in the fairway. I can't compete from the rough. I have to drive it in play and go from there.

Kevin Dillon

We researched the market, and we think there is a core business we could attract at the airport that could be very lucrative to us.

We've got everything, from vintage aircraft all the way to the most current aircraft available.

We've got a very dry air mass over us right now.