Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Lermontov

Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

Mark Z. Jacobson

A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world’s needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ... [T]he obstacles are primarily political, not technical.

Mark Kennedy

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Marianne Faithfull

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life

Neil Armstrong

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

Neil Armstrong

I tell you, we're going to be busy for a minute.

Mithun Chakraborty

Dance India Dance is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

Mitt Romney

Mr. President, you’re entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts.

Juan Williams

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If more people rode bikes and less people drove cars, the air would be in better shape and people would be in better shape.

Leonardo da Vinci

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

Leonardo da Vinci

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

Paul Reubens

I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.

Patrick Rothfuss

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.

Patrick Rothfuss

On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand, One blood in a flowing band, One was air all whisper thin, And the ring of ice had a flaw within. Full faintly shone the ring of flame, And the final ring was without name.

Parker Stevenson

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

Paloma Picasso

Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.

Lauren Oliver

Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face.

Pablo Picasso

If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

Paul Horn

In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.

Paul Celan

in the air, there your root remains, there, in the air

Kazuo Ishiguro

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

Margaret Atwood

I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.

Margaret Atwood

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that.

Kevin McCloud

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Kelly Corrigan

Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle.

Any time you give up shorthanded goals, it sucks the air right out of you, ... You're setting up the power play and then the other team comes back and scores on you, that's tough for any team.

Any top corporate entity wants to see the overall network capability they get by giving business to an air carrier.

Anytime you win, it's a good win. But we didn't play very well. Offensively, we were getting underneath the ball and hitting in the air a lot. And defensively, we made a couple of mistakes that hurt us. We're going to have to shape some things up by Thursday and Saturday.