Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Grignard

There are, in fact, very few organic zinc compounds; only the first members of the series, which correspond to the simplest organic radicals, can be prepared without too much difficulty, but they have the disadvantage of being spontaneously inflammable in air and are consequently very dangerous to handle.

Ansel Elgort

I go to dinner with my friends, and we're like, 'Let's put our phones on airplane mode so we can really enjoy each other's company.'

Joe Biden

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.

Alan Alda

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.

Brian Skerry

I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing - I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas.

Virgil

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.

Lee H. Hamilton

When I get on an airplane, I am less worried about the passengers than what is going into the hole below. I worry about containers being shipped into this country. I worry more about rail security than I do air security.

Mike Jackson

We have licensed social workers, people who were in charge of large air conditioning and heating sytems in New Orleans. They're just looking for a way to share their experiences and talent here in Austin. So an investment in these people will pay off for local employers from my point of view.

William Temple

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

Nigel Hamilton

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

The need for air transport is real, and it's not going to change. The key is to have the right business model and have the right initiatives, in my view, to succeed.

Nick Hanauer

The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.

Lee Ritenour

I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.

Adam Clarke

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

Adam Carolla

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

Adam Carolla

I get depressed at airports.

Angie Stone

I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.

Andy Gray

I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.

Ally Carter

You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..." Even after the plane took off, they kept debating security perimeters and protocols. I'm pretty sure they argued for forty-five minutes about where the best place for cappuccino was near the Colosseum.

Allan McNish

I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

Alistair Cooke

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

Ann Macbeth

They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.

Ann Coulter

There were precisely two groups of people who desperately wanted airport security to be browbeaten into giving suspicious passengers a pass: terrorists and Democrats.

Amanda Bennett

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

Amanda Bynes

To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.

Aeschylus

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

Norman Schwarzkopf

The day we executed the air campaign, I said, "we gotcha!

There's even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology.

Richard Johnson

The danger of driving to the airport is probably greater than the danger of eating meat in Europe.

The decision is a step backward in the protection of air quality in the United States.

The dentist who uses an airplane on business, the guy who owns a carpet store, they don't have the infrastructure to handle the bureaucracy.

Tim Allen

The demand by our institutions was substantial, but we are pleased to work with the American Airlines Center on this public sale. It has resulted in some quality seats being available to the general public.

Antoine Lavoisier

The definition of the composition of air ensues from this program of research : atmospheric air is not an element, that is, a simple body, but a mixture of several gases. Approximately a quarter of atmospheric air is composed by dephologisticated or