Air Quote by David Letterman

I mean you think about the guy, the Nigerian guy, who was going to blow up the plane. He was wearing a pair of…

— David Letterman

Nike actually has a pair of shoes called Air-Turbulence. Try getting past airline security wearing those. Might as well call them Air-Osama.

— Jay Leno

“Before you bombed my boy Osama I always thought an explosion was such a quick thing but now I know better. The flash is…

— Chris Cleave

We had one idiot put a bomb in a shoe, and now everybody's got to take their shoes off? Where's the bra bomber at?…

— Alonzo Bodden

The episode of the 'shoe bomber,' Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu temple. My…

— Shashi Tharoor

“Pretty soon we’d laced the sneakers over his fake feet, and the world’s first flying goat boy was ready for launch.”

— Rick Riordan

“This is an incredibly realistic training exercise—even down to the point of using ethnically correct pilots, and detonating fake explosives on the ships. Lawrence…

— Neal Stephenson

“They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple…

— Evan Wright

A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced to make…

— Cat Stevens

For a younger generation to imagine a time where there was no security at airports - going around the world in the bar of…

— Peter Morgan

Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

— Casey Stengel

“They flew up to 140 varieties of aircraft straight out of the factories and delivered them directly into the hands of us excitable young…

— M.J. Foreman