Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Brown

Whether it's an aircraft engine, nuclear submarine or power station, the project management challenges are consistently the same. The online program provides education that project managers can use in any industry.

Whether it's air quality, or water quality or availability, or land degradation, China's facing a very serious set of problems.

Richard Blumenthal

We are actually in a better position than Pennsylvania was, ... because we have been deprived of all of our air national guard planes. Pennsylvania lost only a quarter.

We are 45 minutes from an airport and four hours from L.A.. We've got a good-natured FedEx driver who doesn't seem to mind the hike.

We're losing an airline that brought super low fares to America. Those super low fares put them into bankruptcy, too.

We are on track for another Code Orange day today, ... Good thing we issued an air quality alert (yesterday).

Isabella Bird

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.

Isabella Bird

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

Isabella Bird

The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors. It is conveyed to you in letters: the air is full of it.

Giles Foden

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

William Henry Bragg

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse.

Yani Tseng

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

Clay Shirky

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.

William Burroughs

We are like water creatures looking up at the land and air and wondering how we can survive in that alien medium. The water we live in is Time. That alien medium we glimpse beyond time is Space. And that is where we are going.

We are known for consistently low fares, and the response to our new low- fare service between Missouri and Dallas Love Field has been terrific. We are saying thank you to our Customers for responding to this new freedom in Dallas air travel.

Sam Smith

We recognize that there's controversy with this and we'll certainly air that out.

We recognize that both counties have strained budgets. He brings with him a background in economics, a background in finance. The key here is to find other sources of revenue so the burden on the taxpayer is reduced and the airport grows in exciting new ways. And to let the community see how essential the services are that many don't see every day.

Wolfgang Ketterle

When air is hot, the molecules move fast and they have high kinetic energy. The colder the molecules are, the smaller their velocities are and, subsequently, their energy. Temperature is simply a way to characterize the energy of a system.

The park lies directly downwind from a slew of coal plants. Virtually all of the major contaminants in the local air and water are direct results of coal emissions. Coal produces ozone, which kills trees. Coal produces sulfates, which kill fish. No other park in the country has more ozone or sulfates than Shenandoah National Park.

It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.

On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.

Anita Desai

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.

The Raptor not only combines the capabilities of several legacy aircraft by delivering air dominance, lethal intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, but it does so without adversaries even knowing the aircraft is out there -- as proven this past year. As the world's only 5th Generation fighter aircraft in operation, it has overwhelming capability to ensure USAF air dominance for the next four decades.

There is little doubt that they have been over the airplane ... We are sure that the crew is not on the airplane, and we have every reason to think that the Chinese have been all over the airplane, ... Good Morning America.

There is a tremendous amount of critical and confidential information flying through the airwaves in the Georgia State Capitol. Our challenge is to keep this information secure while enabling wireless access.

Emmanuelle Seigner

I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.

Orville Wright

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.

Orville Wright

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

Chesley Sullenberger

The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

Bob Beauprez

Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.

Bill Bryson

I grew up, really, in the days before air conditioning. So I can remember what it was like to be really hot, for instance, and I can remember what it was like when your barber shop and your local stores weren't air conditioned, so it was hot when you went in them and they propped the doors open.