Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's like testing a new airplane or car. Before you go off joyriding with it, you want to make sure everything works.

Roy Williams

It's going to be very, very restricted air service for the weeks to come.

It's going to be kind of like the Air Force (Blue Angels flying squad) with the missing man formation.

It's good to be home sometimes, but it's a breath of fresh air to get on the road, play in some different buildings, grab some dinners and hang with the boys.

Carl Pavano

It's good to get out there and let myself air it out.

Mark Recchi

It's going to be a breath of fresh air for me. I just can't wait to get there, lace them up and get in the lineup with these guys.

Its first policy is to avoid interruptions to rail and air transportation.

It's hard to see with all the water coming down on you. You just go by the sound. If you hear it clang you know you're hitting (the keg). I am constantly moving the nozzle. It's easier than really fighting a fire, you don't have air tanks on, but you can't always see the guy in front of you.

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.

When you win that many games in a row, you go in there with the idea that you've seen it all, been there and done that. You have a confident air about you, and you feel that there's nobody out there who can change what you do.

When fuel prices are so high, there's no way Airbus can price an inefficient airplane attractively for customers.

Nancy Gibbs

I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.

Nancy Gibbs

Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

Nikola Tesla

I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me.

Nikola Tesla

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

Kim Delaney

Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.

Nikki Reed

If I'm getting on an airplane or anywhere, really, I have a lunch box and stuff. It's a running joke with my friends and family - everyone gives me lunch boxes for Christmas.

Nelson DeMille

I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.

Nevil Shute

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

Noam Chomsky

It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.

John Armstrong

Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.

There's virtually nothing to stop the cold air from off of Hudson Bay from flowing down across the midlands. So you get good contrast: the warm air coming up -- the cold air coming down -- and where they meet is your typical frontal location.

Jodi Picoult

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

John Green

But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.

John Green

Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.

Cassandra Clare

He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too

Kevin Richardson

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Evan Parker

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

Eva Herzigova

We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.

Moby

For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor to climate change. According to the United Nations, 25% of climate change comes from animal agriculture, so every car, bus, boat, truck, airplane combined has less CO2 and methane emissions than animal agriculture.

Mindy Kaling

My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “Where’s the bathroom?” and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave.