Airports Quotes - Page 16

• I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

  Maeve Binchy

  Kings, Journey, Mind

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• All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Music, Shopping

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• Airport Cars UK are always helpful and on time when we go on holiday. They have also done themselves proud with the executive people carriers at my sister-in-law's wedding

  Shane Richie

  Holiday, Sister In Law, Car

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• I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.

  Warsan Shire

  Language, Forget, Hotel

  Warsan Shire, “Conversations About Home (At The Deportation Centre)”

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• Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get easier and Heathrow become the world's worst airport? The answer lies not in reality but in appearance. News editors abhor a vacuum. Half an hour of airtime and 10 pages of news must be filled each day, whatever the weather.

  Simon Jenkins

  Children, Lying, Reality

  "The state has only aided our seasonal spates of thuggery" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2007.

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• A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Sheep, Feelings, Flocks

  Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai”, p.152, Univ of California Press

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• Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Baby, Eye, Makeup

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• This is America. We're proud. We're not afraid of a bunch of terrorists. But this government is all about terror alerts and scaring us at airports. We're changing the Constitution out of fear. We spend all our time looking up each other's dresses. Fear's the only issue the Republican Party has. Vote for them, or the terrorists will win. That's not what Reagan was about. I hate to think about our soldiers over in Iraq fighting for a country that's slipping away.

  Merle Haggard

  Country, Hate, Party

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• Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful and I love them, they haven't made that decision yet. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Beautiful, Baby, Thinking

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• I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, New York

  Twitter post from May 03, 2010

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• There has never been evidence that people from these [banned] countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts. We have sent chaos to the airports. We have offended the world. We have derailed the administration. We have done it in such an incompetent way, the administration has, that people with perfectly legal residence have been widely inconvenienced.

  David Brooks

  Country, People, Done

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• First, there are many who can fight, but they're small in stature; Zhang Lanxin is 177 cm [5'9"+] tall, with very long hands and legs, and very quick. In the scenes, I tried to show all of her special strengths and qualities. Plus, Zhang Lanxin has extraordinary staying power: it was only yesterday at the airport that I saw her cell phone photos from the hospital where she was having blood clots in her knee being cleared up, and I hadn't known till then that she had this problem.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, Phones, Cells

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• We are a debtor nation, our airports are third world, our highways are falling apart. Our roads, our bridges, everything, we're like third world.

  Donald Trump

  Fall, Bridges, Debtors

  Source: www.economist.com

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• So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

  George Carlin

  Innocence, Goofy, Kind

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen antiques. It's got the largest number of antique shops in the UK, so it's a great place to fence stolen goods. It's got tremendous communication: you've got the sea ports, you've got the channel tunnel, you've got Gatwick Airport 25 minutes away, and London's 50 minutes away by train. So all these escape routes... Which is what villains like.

  Peter James

  Communication, Sea, Numbers

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Whenever I travel to the South, the first thing I do is visit the best barbecue place between the airport and my hotel. An hour or two later I visit the best barbecue place between my hotel and dinner.

  Jeffrey Steingarten

  Travel, Two, Dinner

  "The Man Who Ate Everything". Book by Jeffrey Steingarten, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 1997.

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• If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

  Simon Van Booy

  Rain, Sight, Shopping

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.50, Oneworld Publications

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• I'll step in an airport just now, and people will recognize me. I'm in Harlem on 144th and whatever, and people are coming up to me like, "What's up, Chamillionaire?" And seeing it grow is, nothing turning into something, that feeling is a really good feeling.

  Chamillionaire

  People, Feelings, Steps

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.

  Hugh Masekela

  Men, Clubs, Festivals

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• Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.

  Simon Hoggart

  Hoarding, Watches, Ugly

  "Simon Hoggart's week: the ugly face of Swiss watches" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• When the day comes, I remember how much I loathe flying. I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Checks, Humiliation, Airport Security

  "Tom Hodgkinson: Why modern travel fills me with horror". www.independent.co.uk. July 14, 2012.

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• [My House By The Water] is a nice instrumental track. The sound of the water is from the same place where the front photo was taken. I live really close to the airport, so there's also planes going over. It's kind of to remind me of living in there, because I'm not gonna be living in there for very much longer.

  Mac DeMarco

  Nice, Taken, Track

  Source: lagroupie.tumblr.com

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• I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.

  Lena Dunham

  Understanding, Trying, Watches

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.87, Random House

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• America has borders. You have quite strict borders, actually. Even getting a work permit in New York actually is quite a difficult thing to do. I've got to prove I've got an address. I've got to prove I have private health care. And when my work permit runs out, if I haven't left, there'll be a knock at the door, they'll put me in handcuffs and take me to JFK Airport. That's how you guys do it.

  Nigel Farage

  Running, New York, Doors

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I had run into Kari Lizer at an airport, I think, and she said, "Would you come on the show [ The New Adventures Of Old Christine]?" And I said, "God. Absolutely."

  Eric McCormack

  Running, Adventure, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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