Air Travel Quotes
51 Air Travel quotes by 30 unique authors
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English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language…
— Bill Bryson
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Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?
— Justine Bateman
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Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places.
— Dan Quayle
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as…
— Pico Iyer
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.
— Virginia Postrel
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It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in…
— George Will
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give…
— Erica Jong
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Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and…
— Don DeLillo
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There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because…
— Bill Bryson
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A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
— Charles C. Mann
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As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of…
— Bob Hope
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There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
— Bob Hope
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The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas for…
— Dave Barry
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This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.
— Dave Barry
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A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of…
— Dave Barry
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Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is,…
— Dave Barry
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If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.
— Dave Barry
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I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.
— Dave Barry
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Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."
— Dave Barry
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This year, U.S. airlineswill carry a record 143 million passengers, who will be in the air for 382 million hours, during which they will be…
— Dave Barry
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In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.
— Dave Barry
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Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.
— Dave Barry
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The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex,…
— Dave Barry
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The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the flights I've been…
— Dave Barry
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Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a…
— Dave Barry
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30 authors contributed a total of 51 Air Travel Quotes, led by these top contributors: