Passengers Quotes - Page 3

• I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.

  Jules Verne

  Captains, Nemo, Companion

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.44, Jules Verne

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• The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying.

  Harriet Quimby

  Women, School, Flying

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• Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.

  Garrett P. Serviss

  Religious, Two, Ostriches

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• In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.

  Norbert Wiener

  Real, Looks, May

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.40, Da Capo Press

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• Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

  Bill Lipinski

  Bridges, Long, Gaps

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• Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.

  Don Rittner

  Information, Internet, Civility

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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• Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That's what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest.

  G. Harry Stine

  Future, Adventure, Years

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• We recognised that just putting more flights and more passengers into the skies over southeast England wasn't worth the environmental costs we-re paying.

  Theresa Villiers

  Airports, Sky, Environmental

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• If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Believe, Space

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• Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

  Thelma Drake

  Development, Patient, Good Things

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• Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

  Dionysius Lardner

  Follow Your Dreams, Aviation, Speed

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• Why couldn't she have gotten another Edger or some dimwit from the Broken for a passenger? No, she got Lord Leather Pants here.

  Ilona Andrews

  Leather Pants, Broken, Lord

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.47, NYLA

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• Thank you," I say, pounding his back probably too hard. "That was the best damned passenger-seat driving I've ever seen in my life." He pats my uninjured cheek with his greasy hand. "I did it to save myself, not you," he says. "Believe me when I say that you did not once cross my mind. " I laugh. "Nor you mine," I say.

  John Green

  Believe, Hands, Laughing

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• Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that "man" encompasses the whole darned race -- but at whatever 0'clock in the mornning. I thought it would be nice to be called sometihng that suggested unwashed masses a little less.

  C.E. Murphy

  Nice, Believe, Men

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• You risked the cub? (Dev) He’s not just a cub. (Aimee) You’re right. He’s the passenger who fell off the short bus. (Dev)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cubs, Bus

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• To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

  Peter David

  Brave, Crew, Be You

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• Highly complementary airline alliances and mergers can bring important benefits to passengers by connecting networks, offering new services and generating efficiencies across the aviation value chain. However, this has to take place within a competitive environment. It is vital that the economic benefits of an airline alliance or merger are passed on to passengers.

  Neelie Kroes

  Offering, Important, Alliances

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• Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Lying, Rose, Diaries

  Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “Fatality”, p.3, Open Road Media

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• Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat of an engine car the color of coal, a string of shiny passenger cars trailing behind. One day my father laughed and corrected me. Everything snapped into focus. It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Father, Color

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• I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled. I coaxed it into the center of the city. Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! A Trans Am pulled up next to me at a light. The Trans Am was filled with high school kids. One of them stuck his head out of the passenger-side window. "Hey lady," he said. "Sounds like you got a fartmobile." I flipped him an Italian goodwill gesture and pulled the ball cap low on my forehead. (Three to get Deadly)

  Janet Evanovich

  Running, Block, School

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• At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life. The passengers cheered. Darn right!" yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. "Everybody get back on board!

  Rick Riordan

  Smoking, Boards, Hats

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.

  Gordon Bethune

  Air, Alcohol, Sin

  "Sex, scotch and speed" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

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• It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged.

  Richard Yates

  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.68, Random House

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• The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

  John S. Pistole

  Hurt, Technology, Air

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• Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [Passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring?

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Spring, Heart

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Wisconsin: On a Monument to the Pigeon", p. 109, 1949.

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