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Air Travel Quotes by Dave Barry
- 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…
- This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.
- 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…
- 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,…
- If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.
- I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.
- Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."
- 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…
- In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.
- Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered…
More Air Travel Quotes
- English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin… — Bill Bryson
- Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING? — Justine Bateman
- Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places. — Dan Quayle
- My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me… — Pico Iyer
- The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying… — Virginia Postrel
- It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness… — George Will
- Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I… — Erica Jong
- Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from… — Don DeLillo
- 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
- A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now. — Charles C. Mann
- As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel… — Bob Hope
- There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip. — Bob Hope