Tig Notaro Ellen Degeneres Quotes & Sayings

Maine. 1.1 INSIDE THE FOUR FLIGHTS Boarding the Flights Boston:American 11 and United 175. Atta and Omari boarded a 6:00 A.M. flight from Portland to Boston's Logan International Airport.1 When he checked in for his flight to Boston,Atta was selected by a computerized prescreening system known as CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System), created to identify passengers who should be subject to special security measures. Under security rules in place at the time, the only consequence of Atta's selection by CAPPS was that his checked bags were held off the plane until it was confirmed that he had boarded the aircraft. This did not hinder Atta's plans.2 Atta and Omari arrived in Boston at 6:45. Seven minutes later,Atta apparently took a call from Marwan al Shehhi, a longtime colleague who was at another terminal at Logan Airport.They spoke for three minutes.3 It would be their final conversation. 1 — Anonymous

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind. — Lewis Mumford

Your tears,
I want to dry it.
If I could make a deal with God.
Your freedom,
I would like to return it to you.
If I could make a deal with God. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865. — Jules Verne

It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity. — Jon Foreman

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom. — Galileo Galilei

One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite. — Franz Kafka

'Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny. — Tracy Morgan

Think carefully. We only have one life to live. We alone are responsible for it. — Ayse Kulin

A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain? — Richard Henry Stoddard

Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had. — Judith Guest

One man's Mona Lisa is another man's velvet Elvis. — C.M. Bacon

Pressure to produce over the short term - a gun to the head of everyone - encourages excessive risk taking which manifests itself in several ways - fully invested posture at all times, the use of leverage, and a market centric orientation that makes it difficult to stand apart from the crowd and take a long term perspective. — Seth Klarman