Airports Quotes - Page 13

• I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

  Haruki Murakami

  Clouds, Seven, Dense

  Haruki Murakami (2004). “Vintage Murakami”, Vintage

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• When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Typewriters, Wind

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as "Massholes.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Hate, Squares, Boston

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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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• 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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• In most instances, at all costs, do NOT check a bag. Especially during the holiday season. You have more flexibility to switch flights, switch airlines or even leave the airport and get a rental car to drive to your next destination. If the airline has your bag, they also have you.

  Beth Mowins

  Holiday, Car, Next

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• If Real Madrid land on Manchester airport, then the airport will be surely flooded just to see one player whom fans want most. Everyone knows the name, I don't need to tell it. He is the Prince and legend of Manchester,The King and legend of Real(Madrid). 'CRISTIANO RONALDO'

  Gary Neville

  Kings, Real, Cristiano Ronaldo

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• Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

  Dave Lombardo

  Jobs, Airplane, Car

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• Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.

  Zayn Malik

  Love You, Loving Someone, Waiting

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• Once, hurrying through a busy airport to get to my gate on time for a connecting flight, I came upon a lady in a wheelchair. Amidst the chaos of the hundreds of people rushing around us, my eyes met hers. The sweetest smile appeared on her face. I smiled back, but I knew she would never fully realize how that small gesture had filled my soul. I believe that God is in our everyday. Many moments occur in our lives which reveal his face, his touch, his voice. Look for him today. He will be found.

  Kathy Troccoli

  God, Believe, Eye

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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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• The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.

  Lionel Richie

  Mother, Love You, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.

  Mark Skousen

  New York, Cities, Issues

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• With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.

  Tom Udall

  Sacrifice, Technology, Privacy

  "Protecting Privacy at the Airport" by Tom Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• When people help me out, even with something like a move or a ride to the airport, I'm always thinking "Are you sure it's okay? Are you sure you don't mind?"

  Melissa McBride

  Moving, Thinking, People

  "Q&A – Melissa McBride (Carol)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. October 2011.

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• When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

  Eva Zeisel

  Mother, Children, West Indies

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• The service at this airport restaurant is so bad I'm starting to panic that I'm a ghost.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Humor, Panic

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• What is fascinating about a place like Los Angeles airport is that it is lots and lots of people, many of whom have saved up all their lives and channeled all of their energies toward coming to the promised land of abundance and plenty - the American Dream. But as soon as they arrive here they get a crash course in the American reality.

  Pico Iyer

  Dream, Reality, Land

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It happened again this week. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Seems every time somebody went through with a weapon, the metal detectors accidentally went off.

  Jay Leno

  People, Weapons, Chicago

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• The federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They're instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn't that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.

  Jay Leno

  Names, Government, Security Guards

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• I flew this past weekend. I went through airport security and said to the guy, 'Is everything okay?' He said, 'You might want to have that mole on your ass checked out.' That seems a little personal to me.

  Jay Leno

  Weekend, Past, Guy

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• People want to say there isn't racial profiling at the airport, but let's be honest. If you first name is Mohammed, and your last name isn't Ali, leave a little extra time.

  Jay Leno

  Names, Extra Time, People

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• If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

  David K. Shipler

  Tasks, Borders, Protection

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• I was in the Vancouver airport, and I was speaking with a young girl. She asked if I was Freddie Prinze Jr., and I said I was. She kind of giggled, and while I was talking with her, her girlfriend ran up and took my sandwich. I did not call out after her.

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.

  Girl, Talking, Vancouver

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Years

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