Airports Quotes - Page 10

• We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Venture

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• The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Baghdad

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• Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Wall, Military

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• Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Baghdad

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• With me, traveling for work is arriving at the airport, checking into the hotel, leaving the hotel the next morning at 4 or 5 to do something like 'The Jimmy and Jackie Captain Crazy Morning Zoo,' doing a bunch of those in a row, then going back to the hotel, and then finally going to the club.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Morning, Zoos, Crazy

  "Gillbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". "Celebrity travel", www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

  Jo Nesbo

  Coffee, Writing, Routine

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• The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as Silvestre Reyes with Operation Hold the Line in El Paso. Operation Hold the Line demonstrated that a strategic use of personnel and technology can combine at our land border, as it has for many years at our airports, to reduce unauthorized crossings.

  Barbara Jordan

  Technology, Years, Land

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• I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.

  Holly Black

  Cat, Kissing, Wife

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Country, Should

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Rain, Two

  "Taylor Swift in Wonderland". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. October 25, 2012.

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• We drove to the airport. On the way, Clay gave him "the lecture," including all the do's and don'ts of meeting the Alpha, which was only slightly more complicated than an audience with the queen. Don't sit until you're invited to. Don't talk unless he asks you a question. Don't eat before he does. Don't make direct eye contact. Jeremy demanded none of this, but that wasn't the point.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Queens, Eye, Clay

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• Of course, if I eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around and groan for a while. It's hard to say what 'friends' are any more, but that might be close.

  Isaac Marion

  Feel Better, Brain, Might

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people across from you on subways or in airport lounges, there but not there. Your eyes keep going back to them, for lack of anything more interesting to look at, and then you feel bad for staring.

  Mary Roach

  Eye, People, Interesting

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• Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.

  Frances Mayes

  Running, Dream, Home

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• With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Waiting, Wonder, Nervous

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.323, A&C Black

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• The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Reactions, Sita

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• So, instead of panicking, I closed my eyes and spent the twenty minutes' drive with Edward. I imagined that I had stayed at the airport to meet Edward. I visualized how I would stand on my toes, the sooner to see his face. How quickly, how gracefully he would move through the crowds of people separating us. And then I would run to close those last few feet between us - reckless as always - and I would be in his marble arms, finally safe.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Running, Moving, Eye

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.290, Hachette UK

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• You'd better get onto MI6. They'll be in charge of security at the airport." "Of course." Sir Graham moved toward the door. He stopped and turned around. "And what happens if you're wrong?" he inquired. "What happens if these soccer players do somehow get killed?" Kellner shrugged. "At least we'll know what we're dealing with," he said. "And they lost every single one of their games while they were in Nigeria. I'm sure we can put together another team.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Soccer, Team, Player

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• There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security “bullet

  Gayle Forman

  Heart, Doctors, Miracle

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.71, Penguin

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• Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.

  Michael Crichton

  School, Kids, Doors

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Opposites, Atoms, Way

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.352, Penguin

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• They used to have a smoking section at most airports. No more. They now have these glass-encased rooms. You're not just a smoker, you're an example to other people. You're an exhibit at a futuristic zoo.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Zoos, Humor

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• I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

  Patton Oswalt

  Cynical, Comedy, Kind

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• All the airports kind of feel and look the same now. Some are more beautiful, some are less beautiful, but for the most part you're going to find a Starbucks in every airport. You're going to get your coffee and the 'USA Today' or 'New York Times' in every airport.

  Jason Reitman

  Beautiful, New York, Coffee

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• Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

  Salman Rushdie

  Terrorist, Airport Security, Terrorist Attacks

  "Satanic view that equates democracies and dictatorships" by Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2012.

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