Airports Quotes - Page 18

• I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?

  Caitlin Moran

  Squares, Feminist, Soul

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• Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

  Muhammad Ali

  Kissing, Men, Rome

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2012.

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• The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

  Scott Bakula

  Guy, Scripts, Firsts

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• There were precisely two groups of people who desperately wanted airport security to be browbeaten into giving suspicious passengers a pass: terrorists and Democrats.

  Ann Coulter

  Two, People, Giving

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.327, Crown Forum

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• Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc.

  Peter Menzel

  Worry, Rays, Digital

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• The people who are doing really well and who are getting stopped in airports are the people who are going to say the more outrageous things and get on TV and state their opinion on a regular basis.

  Mark Leibovich

  People, Tvs, Opinion

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Situation, Feels, Comfortable

  "Q&A: André Leon Talley". Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Running, Up To You, Stories

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• In June 2002, airport security searched Al Gore. There's a lot not to like about Gore, but he's not a terrorist. Gore said he was glad he was searched. Why? To spare a terrorist the trouble? This is a serious national issue; why must liberals lie? Searching Al Gore is purely a religious act. It is the purposeless fetishistic performance of ritual in accordance with the civic religion of liberalism.

  Ann Coulter

  Religious, Lying, Issues

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• I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage.

  Johnny Vegas

  Hate, Flying, Lost

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• Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.

  Johnny Vegas

  Witty, Finding Yourself, Trying

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• Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart.

  Henry Rollins

  Journey, Cities, Lax

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• Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

  Charley Pride

  School, Golf, Cowboy

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• I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport ,the metal detector goes off.

  Jesse Ventura

  Body, Metal Detectors, Metals

  Jesse Ventura (2016). “Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"”, p.156, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  Abraham Verghese

  Opportunity, Doe, Delay

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• Victoria Beckham is so nasty, why doesn't she just go home?! Her dresses are beautiful, but I don't care what she does. She's mean to all the people around her. She's too short to be a diva. We all use the same hairdressers, make-up artists, limo-drivers and greeters at the airports in LA and nobody has anything nice to say about her. They say she's rude. She can't always just be having a bad day.

  Joan Rivers

  Beautiful, Nice, Mean

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• Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.

  Alain de Botton

  Song, Home, Garden

  Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.55, Penguin UK

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• Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me, "but you will arive at another Trude, absolutely the same, detail by detail. The world is covered by a sole Trude which does not begin and does not end. Only the names of the airport changes.

  Italo Calvino

  Names, Details, Doe

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• In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

  Jon Porter

  Light, Needs, Management

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• I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.

  Tony Parsons

  Drama, Thinking, Cities

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• I don't have a problem with many uses of the word genre, just certain ones. I have the most trouble when these labels are used to prevent discussion, to prevent a work from being taken seriously as literature. When we say "genre," we generally mean "something crappy," something that would be sold in an airport.

  Michael Chabon

  Taken, Mean, Would Be

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances and innovations that blow our minds. But we have soul, and spirit, and consciousness, and the modern world hasn't done so well at helping us name and understand what it means to be thriving and fully alive with a full heart.

  Rob Bell

  Song, Heart, Mean

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• If a Chinese plane landed at Los Angeles Airport having just bought down an American military plane, he wouldn't be permitted to leave the next day. So then we developed a framework which should have been acceptable as a concept to the Chinese, namely to express regret for the loss of life and maintain our position that we had a right to fly these missions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Regret, Military, Loss

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.

  Brian Eno

  Play, People, Example

  Interview by Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I had more material on weather than anyone else, I guess, ... back when I was traveling a lot on the road as a standup comic, between airport security and the weather... I just wanted to be prepared for sitting in the airport.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Weather

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