Passengers Quotes - Page 8

• It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via government. That is all true. But we have no such consensus, and no one in government or politics these days has the will or the force of personality or perhaps even the understanding of the situation to get on with job of forming a consensus supporting rail.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Jobs, America, Government

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• The first joke I got on the air I remember clearly. Dennis McNicholas and Robert Carlock wrote a sketch where they were evacuating the Titanic, and the last two guys on the entire ship were the two black guys, Samuel L. Jackson and Tracy Morgan. So Will Ferrell was running back and forth, saying, "All first-class passengers get in the lifeboat. All second-class passengers and third-class passengers get in the lifeboat. Let's get all the animals in the lifeboat. Let's put all the empty luggage in the lifeboat."

  Michael Schur

  Running, Animal, Air

  Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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• The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

  John Milton

  Nodding, Horror, Shady

  John Milton (2006). “L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Were money no object, we could have a dedicated door-opener-and-closer on all trains. But in the real world, train drivers in different countries have a wide range of responsibilities. On rural routes in Scandinavia, for example, you might find the driver selling you the ticket as well as operating the doors, helping disabled passengers, handling parcels and driving the train.

  Simon Calder

  Country, Real, Responsibility

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers in a rush-hour train which has stopped between stations for three centuries. And they all hate one another. And they're all crushed together waving their national flags, clanking their national chains, jabbering their national language.

  Quentin Crisp

  Country, Hate, Europe

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• Unfortunately, this past birthday, my son was up the entire night before, very sick with that horrible - I think it was called the Norovirus or whatever the hell that was that was going around. So I got it. And then my husband [Paul Scheer] got it. We were both fighting it because he had planned this whole day for me, and we were both pretending it wasn't happening. We were literally driving ourselves to a massage and facial that he had planned and at one point, I was like, "I can't drive anymore. I need to get in the passenger's seat."

  June Diane Raphael

  Husband, Fighting, Son

  "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.

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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

  Airports, Two, People

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

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• The events of September 11 would have been impossible if there were no airport security system at all. If average Americans were allowed to carry their personal firearms on board our aircraft ..., the chances that several passengers on each flight would have been armed-and thus able to shoot the hijackers, preventing the Trade Center and Pentagon hits-would have been quite substantial.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Security Systems, Average, Airports

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• Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Running, Stress, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per 100,000 passengers carried. So you're not just getting low fares, you're also getting wonderful customer service.

  Herb Kelleher

  America, Records, Statistics

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• [I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

  Aldous Huxley

  Soul, Captains, Fate And Destiny

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• You cannot compare any leaders in America to what Vladimir Putin has done. This is a man and a regime that has taken down a passenger plane in Ukraine, killing hundreds of people.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Taken, Men, Ukraine

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy.
  An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull passenger roster of sanctioned curriculum, plus the baggage of an approved, limited vocabulary. The trick is to design your chartered bus to be as cool and sexy as a motorcycle.

  Mo Willems

  Sexy, Fun, Book

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• An evangelist no more imposes his views on others than a pilot imposes his views on his passengers when he lands a plane on a runway. I bet the passengers are glad!

  Mark Dever

  Views, Land, Pilots

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

  Roger Waters

  Felt

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• All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.

  Janet Napolitano

  Technology, Use, Location

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• I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.

  Frank Lampard

  Years, Sitting, Benches

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• We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

  Ella Maillart

  People, Understanding, Boards

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• Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.

  Jane Smiley

  Dark, Narrative, Firsts

  "The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt - review" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

  Harriet Tubman

  Track, Railroads, Lost

  Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

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• …a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dark, Challenges, Black

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.285, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Voice, Water

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.6903, e-artnow

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• I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Earth, Spaceships, Spectacular

  1969 Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, ch.1.

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• Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!"

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Future, Eye, Home

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• The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Teaching, Learning, Mind

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