Air Traffic Quotes

#1. Just as airplane pilots must maintain contact with air traffic control towers, you and I must stay in touch with God - the one who sees the big picture of our lives and who orchestrates everything that involves us. He

Joyce Meyer

#2. Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth.

Martin Rees

#3. Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

Lisa Alther

#4. The reality is that we do not have an air traffic control system that is smart enough and technologically capable enough to be able to handle that kind of demand.

James May

#5. Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you

Judith Weir

#6. A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.

Ray LaHood

#7. Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama's deficit speech.

Jay Leno

#8. I have been worried about the future of Mumbai. It is the financial capital, an economic powerhouse that earlier had the highest air traffic, high port traffic, and strong industrial and manufacturing sectors.

Sharad Pawar

#9. I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?

Kurt Fuller

#10. Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

Douglas Rushkoff

#11. 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.

Kelly Corrigan

#12. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

Harrison Ford

#13. AUGUST 5, 1981. That's the date it became official. It's rare that we can point to an exact date when a business theory or idea becomes an accepted practice. But in the case of mass layoffs, we can. August 5, 1981, was the day President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers.

Simon Sinek

#14. Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.

Alex Pareene

#15. However, the ability to control attention is not simply a measure of intelligence; measures of efficiency in the control of attention predict performance of air traffic controllers and of Israeli Air Force pilots beyond the effects of intelligence.

Daniel Kahneman

#16. Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

Henry Rollins

#17. Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance ... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do ... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#18. You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

Cory Lidle

#19. Even at midnight the city groans in the heat. We have had no rain for quite a while. The traffic sounds below ride the night air in waves of trigonometry, the cosine of a siren, the tangent of a sigh, a system, an axis, a logic to this chaos, yes.

Lorrie Moore

#20. It's alleged that our scourge of God and punishment from heaven, Commissar Strelnikov, is Antipov come back to life. A legend, of course. And it's not like him.

Boris Pasternak

#21. For a long time, they sat without speaking. The air outside was filled with the lilting sound of sparrows, the buzz of traffic on Main Street, and under that the faint lapping of waves on the lakeshore. Lou smiled. It wasn't the same, but it was better.
And better, Lou thought, is a start.

Danika Stone

#22. I can't breathe," she said. "I feel like I'm drowning in a gray sea, like they're flooding the whole city, washing away our past and people, dashing everything from the face of the earth." Jammed

Diane Ackerman

#23. Sunflowers hellos from gate to gate. The hour at the square. Candy, art, books, look. A warmth given. Beauties with rain forest hair Walk by the clock tower. Sunlight of neon, the keys inside their eyes. No storms. Traffic sounds, salt air. Salt that moves the thirst and destroys all the fears.

Gwen Calvo

#24. I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

Bill Watterson

#25. But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.

Clarice Lispector

#26. Weekdays, New York City's financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic.

Jennifer Dunning

#27. An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony.

Pope Benedict XVI

#28. Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.

Tommy Lee

#29. It was men, not God, who had done those things...

Kameron Hurley

#30. What if I can't ever be who you want me to be? What if I keep letting you down?

Amy Reed

#31. In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.

Hanya Yanagihara