Runway Quotations

Every woman is not a runway model, nor should she be.

Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big mistake: Nobody serious about their business should put culture in the corner.

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

I don't even think when I'm walking down the runway. I don't really breathe either.

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.

I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.

I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

I wish I could wear clothes straight off the runway.

Fashion Week is surprisingly very short. At least the actual runway shows are.

Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You're with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was the first person out on the runway, but I thought, 'I have done the Olympics, I can do this.'

So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world.

I have been a big fan of Coco Rocha's for many, many years. I have seen her walk in runway shows, pose like no other in photo shoots, and naturally follow her every move on Twitter and Instagram.

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what we have, there would have been many regional brands that would have succeeded. But I'm not sure there would have been a national brand of the scope of Starbucks.

Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.

I'm going to be 80, walking with a stick down the runway.

When we bought it, there was no recognizable standard in place for utilities, the runway and for many of the buildings. Anytime you go from old dilapidated and crummy to new, it's going to cost something. We've given tenants at the airport the opportunity to lease something new.

Usually it's about five minutes of taxi time from the runway to the gate when we're now allowing folks to use the phone.

Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.

right before the final runway show taped for (her Bravo style series) Project Runway , and I loved having a quiet minute with Michael.

I can eat healthy when I want to, and I can work out every single day, and I can have the body for a certain runway show if I need to, but that doesn't mean that I'm doing it in an unhealthy way.

I am short, so even if there are things that I like, or like on other people, I have to be aware that sometimes that won't work on me because I'm not 5'10. It has to have a shape for my body; otherwise, I look like I am two inches tall. I have to wear things that skim my body more closely than a runway model would.

I give the pilot four stars and a medal for getting that thing down on the runway in the first place. I consider that guy to be a masterful pilot; whether you practice on a simulator or not, that's just experience.

I always say the two most unpopular bits of advice I give people are to go work for someone else before starting your own label and to not do your own runway show when you're first starting out, unless someone else is paying the bill,

We expect to have the information soon. A lot of issues involving the runway and runway safety are being looked at.

He said he had the runway in sight ... and was going to circle to land. He thought he had enough visibility to make a visible approach to the runway.

I would think April is the next possible time. It's on the runway for trial now.

It is not the runway length that's the issue. Runways are either adequate or they're not.

I will be the first to say, when I started, I was the worst on the runway ever. I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway; I try to get better with each one. I hope that I'm getting better as I go - it takes a few seasons to get your Karlie Kloss walk on.

I was very nervous because it took a lot longer to get down the runway than we predicted.

I think he was thinking more about the end of the runway approaching rather than the birds.

When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone.

We have an entire neighborhood completely engulfed in noise and a runway protection zone. I have people that would gladly go and tear up that pavement and carry it away for free.

We are not looking at any land acquisition programs for safety area compliance or runway extensions.

We are not going to go on an aggressive land-acquisition program (to build runway safety areas). Instead of busting up stable neighborhoods, the city will continue to work with the FAA to find the appropriate technologies and safety measures at an airport that has been hailed as one of the safest in the nation.

Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.

When youre on the runway getting ready to go on the Coliseum field, you think about all the big events that have been held there, all the great athletes who have competed there,

We are known for our sense of high fashion and classic runway style. . . . People forget that you are selling the clothes and not yourself. Some troupes' shows look like music videos. We stick to the clothes.

This would involve all the property south of AMKO and west of Runway 16-34.

We don't care who it is as long as it's busy. We are always trying to do it better. We don't want to get in the business of artificially limiting capacity. Our goal is to use every bit of capacity that's there. It's just tough when you have one runway in high mountains. It would be different if there were capacity that was going unused.

We are sending investigators because O'Hare had two major runway incursions in one week.

This should be a working conference bringing together technical experts, airlines, controllers, airport officials, private pilots, to come up with focused recommendations for reducing runway incursions and a realistic schedule and a realistic budget to carry out those recommendations,

When you first lift up off the runway and start seeing the ground moving away, it's 'Wow!' and the young people get some really great expressions.

When you look at the runway now, the girls are 15 and 16 years old with no knowledge of clothes, no idea how to project themselves. I was trained how to show off the dress, how to move to make the clothes look better.

When we touched the ground, people were clapping and cheering because we thought it was going to be a fine landing. Seconds later, we skidded off the runway and it was chaos.

We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

We're the largest home improvement company today, ... and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

Twice during the approach a pilot commented that he had lost sight of the runway, ... There was heavy rain reported, wind shear alertadvisories and the runway visual range was reported to be 1,600 feet.

We instituted a new system of runway passes and limited the number of photographers. There was a problem last season; we listened; we paid attention.

We saw the runway shows start to change as recently as a few years ago. First, designers became avant-garde and did things that were really out there to try to get the media to cover.

You get used to it after a while. Working with him is like changing the tires on a moving car. You come in each morning without a clue as to what the day will bring. All you know is that the day will fly by and there will be screaming. Its like having a picnic at the end of the runway at OHare.

Eventually, a second runway at the airport needs to be developed. But we don't have a runway constraint at present. We don't have an airspace constraint. We simply need more international gates.

Every runway is different, so I can't give black-and-white answers.

Based on everything that was happening from 1980 to 2000, that runway was desperately needed.

At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.

I still can't believe that I walk down the runway once a year in high heels and underwear for Victoria's Secret. And that this is worthy of being broadcast on the Sony JumboTron in Times Square.

It wouldn't have been missed (in pre-flight). They check tires before in a walk-around. A tire can hit something in the runway to cause it to go flat, (but) it is not common.

There will only be a third runway if environmental problems are solved, chiefly air quality.

The runway shows can really put a financial strain on a new business. Every year, there's always someone who has gone out of business who was showing the year before. People see the glamour, but it's a business. Fashion is a tough business.

Tens of thousands of people, including women and children, carried stones with bamboo baskets to build the airport, ... People hammered big stones into small pieces and then rammed the stone pieces with large rollers to make the runway solid.

Runway incursions at our nation's airports reached record levels in 2000. With safety as our highest priority, this is simply unacceptable.

Runway 19 opened for emergency services at about 1:10 p.m. Central.

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara - are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport

Our air-traffic group is looking at the decision-making process and how they decided which runway to use and which ones not to use. We are also examining the responses between the pilots and the air-traffic controllers and what they viewed as the conditions of the runway.

An engineer is designing the runway right now.

a recognition that runway safety should remain a top priority.

The weather will be considered, and we'll talk to the crew. The surface of the runway is one of the things that we'll look at.

They see that as part of their future. We're a discovery project for them, to discover new uses for the shuttle landing facility. As far as Kennedy is concerned, it's a great runway, a runway in perfect condition, equal to the longest available in the United States.

This particular accident is just another example of an accident that highlights the dangers of an inadequate runway safety area.

There was no indication that the runway was wet and they have no indications of any problems at all with the plane,

There's a whole host of things beyond plowing a runway that has to happen before you're back in business.

As we continue to add more capacity with the runway projects, we will ask the FAA to take a look at voluntary flight reductions and roll them back.

It just happened, ... You can't plan for it but just build the runway and hope to God the muse rises.

It's further evidence of how unnecessary the runway was, and is now. It just feels like, what a sad waste. I don't think it behooves anyone for us to say we told you so.

It's not a place you can be a little off. You don't have the variable of a long runway to correct any errors.

Takeoff was a bit scary, to say the least. I had to use most of the runway to get off the ground. This was particularly hairy, as I couldn't have aborted even if I had wanted to.

It was one of those cheesy model-type things where we had to walk across a runway like a piece of meat.

I wanted to take something that's very intimidating and make it accessible, make it something every woman can relate to and be a part of, ... One of the reasons why I got very known as a model was because I used to work the runway with a lot of movement. I didn't just walk up and down unless the designer asked for that. So that's what you're going to see, women working the runway with a lot of oomph.

I want to break ground because time costs money to us building the runways and to our passengers. What kind of value can you place on someone's time when you miss your son's Little League game because you are sitting in a plane on a runway waiting to take off? That's the MasterCard commercial. Time is priceless. That's why we need to modernize O'Hare.

I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.

It will tell a pilot sitting at the end of the runway waiting to take off how far he can expect to see under existing conditions on the runway.

They decided to conduct their training at the Oroville Airport because it has open areas and a large runway in order to do training on emergency maneuvers and do touch-and-goes,

They were more than 100 feet apart, we don't know how much more. The Air Canada jet had already finished crossing the runway when the America West jet flew over the runway at about 100 feet.

The National Transportation Safety Board has made runway safety a top priority since 1990 and continues to encourage the FAA to develop and implement effective means for preventing runway incursions,

Their errors have been costly to Martin County taxpayers, and an escalating seven-year disaster for the neighborhood in the runway protection zone and airport users,

The fair enables us to bring various areas of our city together without any ulterior motives than having a good time. The runway will be lit up in Corpus Christi with fashion from all over the world.

I'm good at my job for a midwestern American. Maybe it's because people in fashion often mistake common sense for genius. I mean, some model walks down the runway in an impossible outfit, and I state the obvious no one is going to wear that and people are like, you're brilliant!

I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.

In the season's first eight episodes, 'Project Runway' has exceeded even our highest expectations for great buzz, and even greater ratings. Enough people have said, literally, 'I don't know what I'm going to do when Runway ends!', that we've made the decision to help them by extending the run!

The short amount of time I'm out on the runway is like going on a rollercoaster. It's such a happy, exciting feeling. I'm more like a racehorse ready to go - I just want to get out there.

I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.

We're number one on the runway.

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

You do your runway show, and it's all over the Internet before I see anything on there.

The key, of course, is what exactly were the winds on the runway at the time of the approach, and that's what we really have to try to focus on.

The causes are numerous. One of the areas is insufficient concrete, insufficient runway length and the lack of safety areas on some existing airports that we have today.

A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.