Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. A. Milne

If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

A. E. Housman

Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.

We've been working very hard as an airport to get ready for this transition.

Lyall Watson

Air is traditionally 'thin,' but the more we learn about our atmosphere, the more substantial it becomes. In some places it is so filled with inorganic flotsam that it is almost thick enough to plough; in others, it has become so primed with the by-products of life that it comes close to being a living tissue in its own right.

Lyall Watson

Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience.

What we have seen is degrees of rescue aid, and what I think we will continue to see is support for airlines being perhaps allowable as long as they can show they are making progress and not interrupting a process of consolidation.

Aaron Woods

We dispatched the Lyondell Air Monitoring Team and Harris County Pollution Control (HCPC) was almost immediately on the scene.

We are not offering it or marketing it, but we are having discussions with airlines about it to see whether it's a marketable airplane.

Linus Roache

In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

James Gleick

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

Laura Esquivel

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

Jason Katims

I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.

Thousands of jobs have already gone, and we saw the effects of that a couple of summers ago when the airline found itself short of people at Heathrow.

Robin Hayes

Troops from Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base are nobly answering the call of duty, separated from their families, friends, and loved ones.

Travelers will indeed see increased security measures at our airports, train stations, and other key sights, ... There will be higher levels of surveillance, more stringent searches. Airport curbside luggage check-in will no longer be allowed. There will be more security officers and random identification checks.

Jim Brown

Trans World Airlines does not tolerate discrimination in any form, including sexual harassment,

Tony Stewart

Yeah, that was not too bad for a car that was just a little off, ... We had a setback in the practice session the other day and that got us off a little bit. But the guys rebounded really well. We lost an alternator belt early and that made us have to turn all the electrical switches off -- all the brake fans and the rear end fans and the fans that blow cool air on the tires to keep the tires cool. It hurt us because it lets it build air pressure a little quicker.

We need to stop the airlines from pulling out in December, January and February. We need to look at ways to keep that from happening.

George Gray

We know there's plenty of demand, not only in Wichita, but all over the country for these folks, ... We recently visited in Little Rock, Ark., where there are several companies there needing cabinet makers for their aircraft as well.

Ludwig von Mises

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

Henry Spencer

Sometimes people wonder why aeroplanes are so cheap and rockets are so expensive. Even the most superficial comparison shows one obvious difference: aeroplane engines use outside air to burn their fuel, while rockets have to carry their own oxidisers along.

I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

Under the hood, I have red wire loom over most of the hoses and lines. I sent the valve cover, part of the air intake and the back dash off and had all of them chromed. Directly under the hood itself, I have made a red cover that matches the trunk exactly, bringing the car together as a whole.

Our guys fought hard and made a lot of plays. We just needed one more here or one more there. We get a little more air under a ball and its a different ball game.

Mike Holmgren

Our guys are ready to handle this (game) maybe better than they have handled it in the past. It's coming from the feeling I get when I go down in the locker room, and the feeling I get on the airplane and different things. They're having fun playing. The cynics aren't around here so much anymore.

Our job was to help secure the main supply route through raids and air assault missions. It was day and night. We never stopped. At times, we took a lot of fire. There were definitely some scary moments.

Porter Goss

Our intelligence -- the reason we have it in many forms around the world is to protect Americans at home and abroad, ... We do not fly legal lawful air missions in international space for the fun of it. We do it for our national security. Yes, there is, I suppose, some risk to all of this, but the fact of the matter is we need to have this surveillance. If there is a way we can do it differently that's less offensive to some people, then that might be a matter worth discussing.

Our inbound aircraft area carrying extra fuel to that we do not have to refuel all our aircraft at Heathrow.

Over the course of the past 12 months the operations division of the district has studied utility costs at all sites. Because those costs were comparatively much higher at Old Union Elementary, Eubanks Intermediate and Dawson Middle, we enlisted the assistance of the engineering firm of Estes-McClure to develop possible solutions to this problem. Using the data that was collected, we developed a recommendation for air balancing and reconfiguring the hot water system and advertised for bids.

Our priorities remain meeting our commitments, especially aircraft and spare parts to the U.S. military to support all their efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Our primary mission is to commercial air service and to support general aviation.

Our state is one of the fastest growing and the most naturally diverse in the United States, ... Our mountains and beaches bring the visitors, and our universities, technology and industries draw the residents. Without clean air the innovation and natural beauty are ruined.

Our forecast was undone by two factors. The impact of the post-Katrina spike in oil prices is lingering; it will eventually fade. Second, trade in goods ex-oil and aircraft -- core -- deteriorated again.