Airports Quotes - Page 8

• Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are.

  David Letterman

  Inspirational, Holiday, Fruitcake

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• We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

  Bruce Schneier

  Weapons, Prison

  "Prison Shivs". Blog Entry, www.schneier.com. August 10, 2006.

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• During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was effectively closed. The military situation in the area deteriorated rapidly. I therefore ordered the evacuation of all American personnel remaining in South Vietnam.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Monday, Military, War

  Ford, Gerald R. (1977). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1975”, p.605, Best Books on

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• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.

  John le Carre

  Memories, Military, Book

  "John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself'". www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.

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• When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

  Emilio Pucci

  Men, Needs, Shapes

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• I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.

  Rick Bragg

  Writing, Phones, Editors

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• I think we should start a movement, and everyone should just start wearing metal pants to the airport.

  Ed Robertson

  Thinking, Movement, Pants

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• I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

  Naomi Benaron

  Wings, Rolling, Saws

  "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. Jenuary 3, 2012.

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• I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter of the way through and it doesn't feel so unmanageable any more.

  Ned Beauman

  Book, Home, Way

  "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.

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• I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I'm in the airport I'm buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Airplane, Chocolate, Hot

  "This Week's Model: Alessandra Ambrosio". Interview with Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.wmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.

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• People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon and drizzle.

  Wendy Harmer

  Heart, Moon, People

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• Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Israel

  George Mikes (1969). “Coat of Many Colors: Israel”

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• Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.182, Crown Archetype

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• What is with this campy fixation on all things Ronald Reagan? They talk about him the way gay people talk about Barbra Streisand. I think they want him on a stamp so they can lick his ass. I think they wanted to name airports after him so they can say, "I'm coming into Reagan!"

  Bill Maher

  Gay, Thinking, People

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

  Roman Coppola

  Witty, Interesting, Enjoy Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Writing, Paper, Stuck

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• In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a new style expresses itself. The similarity of these examples to the new creations in art consists in the same striving for clear, pure form which expresses truth in the objects.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Children, Bridges

  "Theo van Doesburg". Book by Joost Baljeu, p. 123, 1974.

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• I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.

  Marina Abramovic

  Hate, Home, Destiny

  "Marina Abramovic Makes Sundance Shut Up". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.

  Mickey Hart

  Simple, Play, Drumming

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• Even if you're walking through the airport or going to pick up your mail, if you meet a fan and they have a camera, they will take a picture of you and millions could potentially see that picture - if it's picked up by a blog or whatever.

  Keri Hilson

  Cameras, Fans, Mail

  Interview with Vanessa Laker, vanlaker.wordpress.com. June 19, 2011.

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• It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Shoes, Ideas, World

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

  Neil Young

  Religious, Bored, Waiting

  Song: Let It Shine, Album: Long May You Run

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• I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.

  Randeep Hooda

  Dog, Sweet, Home

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• The only way to explain how some people dress for the airport is they think no one else will be there.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Travel, Thinking

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