Passengers Quotes - Page 7

• I think we would look at other possibilities that would deliver further passenger capacity, that would deliver further infrastructure to the north of England but would be better value for taxpayers.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Thinking, Would Be, Looks

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient.

  Simon Calder

  Past, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Morning, Car, Snow

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

  John Howard

  Fitness, Cycling, Riding A Bicycle

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• You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

  Voltaire

  Life, Men, Stories

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• A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground; have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Coffee, Thinking, Views

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.6, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Sea, Dangerous

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

  David Reuben

  Marriage, Rocks, Long

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• The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to the socialized and apathetic behavior of passengers who hardly look out the windows.

  Paul Goodman

  Dream, Stars, Men

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 144), 1956.

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• There's no point in it unless it's a story that you really want to tell. It's a nebulous job. Unless you're doing it well, you're not doing anything. And there are a few of those. It's perfectly possible to be a passenger on a film set because if somebody else has written it, you can make nothing of that role and that's exactly what bad directors do.

  Colin Firth

  Jobs, Directors, Roles

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

  Andrew Bird

  Museums, Bird, Paradise

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Hands, Wave

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.311

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• Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Way, Casual

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.686, Delphi Classics

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• One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Sleep, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.97

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• Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Weather, Advice, Pilots

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• My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.

  Anne Lamott

  Airplane, Ideas, Flying

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.55, Anchor

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• Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Running, Air, Class

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• Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade.

  Frank Buckles

  War, Europe, Would Be

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• Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.

  Bob Goff

  Whimsy, Matter, Way

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• 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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• …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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• I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dark, Alive, Driving

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.18, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

  Ray Bradbury

  Rivers, Stopping, Stories

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