Airports Quotes - Page 12

• To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Home, Fire

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• I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.

  Sloane Crosley

  Reading, Airplane, Shoes

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• I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

  Julian Fellowes

  Fever, Breakfast, Planes

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• I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.

  Tom Felton

  Gadgets, Buying

  "Tom Felton: I'm a little bit of a geek". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Airplane, People, World

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• I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.

  Andy Gray

  Duty, Shops

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• As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow - shopping centers, airports - it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Shopping, Organization, Make Or Break

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• Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon - my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?

  Charles Krauthammer

  Jobs, Thinking, Nuts

  "Don't touch my junk" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it’ll recede. In fact, I know it will. That’s life on planet earth. And I’m okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Special, Facts

  "Tina Fey InBBAACCSS1‘Esquire’: The Thinking Man Wants To F*** Megan Fox". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2010.

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• Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

  Ann Coulter

  Phoenix, Calling, Six

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.37, Crown Forum

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• Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Mental Breakdown, Paparazzi

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• How many airports are there in the world?

  Jimmy Carr

  World

  "Jimmy Carr's 40 most memorable jokes: One-liners and videos galore to mark comic's 40th birthday" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.

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• Say, I was on The Craig Kilbourne Show and the next day I flew to Minneapolis. I was at the airport and a guy came up. He said, 'Dude, I saw you on TV last night.' But he did not say whether or not he thought I was good, he just confirmed that I was on television. So I turned my head away from him for about a minute, then I turned it back. I said, 'Dude, I saw you at the airport about a minute ago. And you were good.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Night, Next Day, Guy

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• Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Shopping, Car, Steps

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why Christians should try to convert Muslims". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. May 21, 2010.

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• Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Airplane, Land, Flying

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• If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Two, Long

  "Kanye West responds to Obama criticism" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same conditions at the airport as business travelers, families, senior citizens, and the rest of us. Perhaps this problem could be quickly resolved if every cabinet secretary, every member of Congress, and every department head in the Obama administration were forced to submit to the same degrading screening process as the people who pay their salaries.

  Ron Paul

  Senior, Country, People

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• The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Song, Jobs, Night

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• If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!

  Emm Gryner

  Being Happy, Cynical, Saws

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• I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back a few drinks and muster up the courage to board the plane. Apparently I'm not alone because I've never been in an empty airport bar. I don't care what time you get there. Even at 8:00 a.m. you have to fight your way to the bar. At that hour, everyone drinks Bloody Marys so no one can tell it's booze- at least until they fall off their chair.

  Bob Newhart

  Fall, Fighting, Boards

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• I like to watch people. For example, people at the airport... What is interesting about them is that they dont know what they are like. People at airports are the most brilliant actors in the world, because their attention is elsewhere, and they are idiosyncratic. I like to imitate people. I walk behind them and imitate their backs.

  Karen Black

  People, Interesting, Example

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• I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as "Massholes.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Hate, Squares, Boston

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• In most instances, at all costs, do NOT check a bag. Especially during the holiday season. You have more flexibility to switch flights, switch airlines or even leave the airport and get a rental car to drive to your next destination. If the airline has your bag, they also have you.

  Beth Mowins

  Holiday, Car, Next

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• I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Drinking, News Stories, Media

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• I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

  Haruki Murakami

  Clouds, Seven, Dense

  Haruki Murakami (2004). “Vintage Murakami”, Vintage

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