Anymore Quote by David Quammen Download Open image “You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.” — David Quammen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anymore Carrying Get Knife Plane Take Virus You
If you are too dangerous to get on a plane, you are too dangerous to buy a gun. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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Scissors, screwdrivers and the like pose an unacceptable risk to flight crews as well passengers. — Dave Reichert 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 hand you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane,… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I feel like there's no reason to put myself through what I put myself through for 20-something years on airplanes, especially these days. You… — Jim Cornette Copy Share Image
Where's my knife? Who took my fucking knife? What do I look like, fucking terrorist? Is this funny? What the fuck is WRONG with… — Gia Carangi Copy Share Image
I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night before I… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“Horses aren’t native to Australia. They are exotic, first brought there by European settlers barely more than two centuries ago. Hendra is probably an… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“People and gorillas, horses and duikers and pigs, monkeys and chimps and bats and viruses: We’re all in this together.” — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“Each outbreak, by this view, represents a local event primarily explicable by a larger cause—the arrival of the wave. The main proponent of the… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“The Towner paper contained a very interesting statement, as an aside, concerning the five ebolaviruses: “Viruses of each species have genomes that are at… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“It comes and it goes. But epidemiologists have recognized that, with measles virus, as with other pathogens, there’s a critical minimum size of the… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is.… — Barbara Mandrell Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
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Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning… — Seinabo Sey Copy Share Image
Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now. — Felix Hernandez Copy Share Image
It's just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It's not enough anymore to 'Just do it.'… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
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I know that when a fighter is out of the ring for more than two years, when he comes back he isn't the same… — Marvin Hagler Copy Share Image
