Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. — Alexander Chase Copy Share Image
I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude. — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The captain has just turned on the fasten-seat-belt-sign. He didn't mean to, but the joint he was smoking fell in his lap,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In 2009, during Pelosi's first speakership, we uncovered documents from the Department of Defense detailing her multiple requests for military air travel. — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“Air travel is such a strange experience. It´s such an intimate thing, to travel alongside a stranger for so many hours, to… — Nick Alexander Copy Share Image
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I do remember that when we left [Bernard Leach] after two and a half years, we went home on a boat again… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I don't think our government really has much of a policy about air travel. I would compare the policies of United Arab… — Jeff Smisek Copy Share Image
As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security's Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security, it is my responsibility to help… — Jeff Van Drew Copy Share Image
People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Travel in car, because you can stop. Air travel any more is a nightmare. I think it's the same for everyone. If… — Steve Kimock Copy Share Image
Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“Whatever the benefits of prolific and convenient air travel, we may curse it for its smooth subversion of our attempts to use… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“Logically, he understood air travel was completely possible. Emotionally, he found the idea of an enormous, tremendously heavy metal object filled with… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
As you begin to create more destinations, that will naturally create a stronger economic pipeline for space. And just as we have… — Dennis Muilenburg Copy Share Image
If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks away from England by… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I put two bricks side by side in the grass and called it a race. Neither one moved so I renamed it… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“What was an infant's view of air travel? You go to a special place, walk into a large room with seats in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)—a century ago, such an eruption would… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image