"It was almost noon when the plane touched……" — Greg Egan
"It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008."
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23 Quotes by Greg Egan
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More Airport Quotes
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads…
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To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working…
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I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a…
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I get depressed at airports.
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Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport -…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on…
— Fidel Castro
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Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful.…
— Charles Schumer
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Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
— Unknown Author
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In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for…
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I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.
— Charles M. Schulz
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They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call…
— George Carlin
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My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a…
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