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“Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.”

Law Greater Distance Flight Gates Airline

“I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.”

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Author:Dave Ramsey

“It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.”

“The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.”

Nations Fashion Cost Treated Immense Airline Chaotic Transportation Railroads

Author:Anthony Stafford Beer

“I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true future of space travel does not lie with government agencies -- NASA is still obsessed with the idea that the primary purpose of the space program is science -- but real progress will come from private companies competing to provide the ultimate adventure ride, and NASA will receive the trickle-down benefits.”

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“This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.”

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Author:Gerard Arpey

“A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'”

Said Born Rooms Baby Birth Legs Flight Womb Airline Southwest Airlines

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Republicans also took control of the Senate after gaining another seven seats. I haven't seen the GOP get this many seats since Chris Christie made an airline reservation.”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.”

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Author:Tony Fernandes

“I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.”

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“Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.”

“I am often late for planes. The airlines know me now, they call at home and ask, 'How much later will you be today?”

Knows Home Today Asks Late Planes Know Me Airline

Author:Gina Lollobrigida

“I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.”

I Can Design Fields Products Involved Architecture Boards Progressive Interiors Lighting Airline Transportation Macro Product Design

Author:Ross Lovegrove

“Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.”

Moving Critical Speed Efficiency Airline Mergers

Author:Bill Vaughan

“A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide.”

Lying Hurt Bed Clothes Machines Legs Torture Flats Ache Slides Airline Back Hurts

Author:Richard Quest

“Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world.”

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Author:JJ Feild

“Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play with it. Now, no one knows exactly what enraged the whale, but earlier in the week, it had been thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines.”

Knows Trying Stills Play Animal Week Obvious Flight Thrown Categories Killers Shocking Airline Whales Southwest Airlines Killer Whales

Author:Bill Maher

“Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we know what is is non, but what is it?”

Knows Littles Stills Products Fine Coffee American Politics Airline Tubs Hart

Author:George Will

“The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.”

Program Wine Asian Airline Best Wine

Author:Alain Ducasse

“Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.”

Made Enough Choices Pay Company Dying Sitting Paid Wings Killing Addiction Flight Smoke Hospitals Tobacco Airline Smokers Personal Choice Oncology

Author:Anna Quindlen

“If Christmas is for families, what do you do when there are families scattered all over the country? I am pretty sure God wants to make sure I touch all the bases, even if I spend his actual birthday with Delta Airlines.”

Ifs Want Country Bases Airline Delta I Am Pretty

Author:Gail Collins

“Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.”

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Author:Benjamin Wittes

“Internationally, there are countries going well beyond the course, with airlines, transportation. There are systems around the world that have explored mining, rail transport, television, communication, Internet service - there very common examples around the world that we can draw examples from.”

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Author:Gar Alperovitz

“I just heard George W. Bush's new plan for airline security. From here on out, every plane will now have its own hockey dad.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Geraldo has returned to the states. See? I told you airline security was a joke.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the co-pilot hit him with a small ax. Good to see our airlines are being kept secure by the latest in 12th century technology.”

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Author:Dennis Miller

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

Trying Wells Might Past Air Security Shoes Pairs Airline Pair Of Shoes Turbulence Nike Airline Security

Author:Jay Leno

“In Afghanistan, U.S. troops are now holding an American man who has been fighting alongside the Taliban. His mother says he was born in Washington, D.C. and his father's a lawyer. Well, that explains it. ... He surrendered to authorities and said he wants to go back to his old job - airline security guard.”

Men Want Wells Has Beens Said Jobs Mother Fighting Father Born Security Authority Lawyer Afghanistan Troops Airline Taliban Security Guards Old Job Airline Security

Author:Jay Leno

“Two of the biggest drivers of airline profit are change fees and baggage fees.”

Two Change Profit Drivers Airline Baggage Fees

Author:Paul Hudson

“Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.”

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Author:Alan Cranston

“Air Canada. That's a good name for a Canadian airline.”

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Author:Johnny Carson

“This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.”

“What President of the Airline is doing is, he's urging everyone to give up their frequent flyer miles for sick kids... But as I was reading this, there were two empty seats next to me. Why can't sick kids sit there? If they're so concerned with sick kids, shouldn't they have like a pen of sick kids next to the gate?”

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Author:David Cross

“We just found out my little brother has a peanut allergy, which is very serious I know. But still I feel like my parents are totally overreacting - they caught me eating a tiny little bag of airline peanuts and they kicked me out of his funeral.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I like to travel business or first class. I wouldn't go out of my way to pay through the nose if the particular airline had a perfectly adequate economy class - but I do like to be comfortable when traveling.”

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Author:Hilary Devey

“People express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest.”

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Author:Alfred Kahn

“I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.”

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Author:Alfred Kahn

“You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.”

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Author:David Frost

“Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.”

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Author:Alfred Kahn

“I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I kept locking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 foot stepladder with a coat hanger.”

Humor Funny Used Feet Keys Caught Used To Be Planes Pilots Coats Airline Hangers Airline Pilots Coat Hangers

Author:Steven Wright

“This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.”

“What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to be an airline pilot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Please dear God, do not let any of these home-schooled kids grow up to be a surgeon, an airline pilot, or a nurse. Or somebody that's in charge of my trans-vaginal mandatory ultrasound. Seriously, no science-y things for them, you know, just religion, let them be all preachers or something.”

Knows Home Kids Grows Growing Up Praying Please Waste Okay Asking Dear Nurse Pilots Preacher Airline Surgeons Trans Schooled Dear God Ultrasounds Airline Pilots

Author:Randi Rhodes

“I think there is a shadow network where everybody has infiltrated in terms of hotel concierges, restaurants, will tip off journalists or paparazzi, the airlines, everywhere.”

Thinking Term Shadow Journalist Restaurants Hotel Airline Paparazzi

Author:Charlotte Church

“The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.”

People World Happens Pain Evil Causes Things Happen Bad Things Crash Airline Bad Things Happen Evil Things

Author:Philip Yancey

“You can divide airlines into two camps: expensive and cheap. But I believe that we will only distinguish between long-haul and short-haul airlines in the future.”

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Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou

“I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland - the airlines were on strike - so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won.”

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Author:James Blunt

“Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.”

Next Industry Planes Crash Probability Airline Save A Life Plane Crashes Airline Industry

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“United [Airlines] sucks, man. I've got like a million miles and they never bump me to first class because they think I'm just a kid and give the seat to some schmoozy guy in a business suit.”

Thinking Men Giving Firsts Kids Guy United Class Millions Miles Suits Seats Airline Bumps First Class

Author:Shaun White

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