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“I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.”

“Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.”

Jobs House Car Example Band Planes Hotel Airplane Airports Vans

Author:Dave Lombardo

“I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.”

Down And Shoes Airports

Author:Rebecca Miller

“Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.”

Waiting Love You Ships Airports Loving Someone

Author:Zayn Malik

“When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.”

Lying Winning British Drunk Oscars Airports

Author:Brenda Fricker

“Once, hurrying through a busy airport to get to my gate on time for a connecting flight, I came upon a lady in a wheelchair. Amidst the chaos of the hundreds of people rushing around us, my eyes met hers. The sweetest smile appeared on her face. I smiled back, but I knew she would never fully realize how that small gesture had filled my soul. I believe that God is in our everyday. Many moments occur in our lives which reveal his face, his touch, his voice. Look for him today. He will be found.”

“The thousands of possible lives that used to spread out in front of me have snapped shut into one, and all I get is what I've got. It's time to pass on the possibilities, all those deliciously half-open doors, to my children, and drive them to the airports, and wish them bon voyage.”

Life Children Used Wish Half Doors Fronts Possibility Spread My Children Airports Voyages

Author:Barbara Holland

“I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a woman was believed to have participated. The alleged crimes in which only men were supposedly involved, i have been accused of planning. They have plastered pictures alleged to be me in post offices, airports, hotels, police cars, subways, banks, television, and newspapers. They have offered . rewards for my capture and they have issued orders to shoot on sight and shoot to kill.”

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“When to arrive at the airport?: You should be at the airport already.”

Should Travel Airports

Author:Dave Barry

“Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.”

Evil Democracy Air Land Breathe Oxygen Airports Johannesburg

Author:Janet Suzman

“As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.”

Long I Can Jobs Hours Majors Airports

Author:Michael Moriarty

“I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.”

World Trying I Can Enjoy Duty Scent Perfume Airports Popping

Author:Lisa Snowdon

“I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.”

Cities Pieces New York Theater New York City Preparing Airports Multimedia

Author:Jessica Hagedorn

“We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.”

Force Destroying Airports Baghdad

Author:Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

“In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.”

Talking China Airports Slang

Author:Ike Turner

“A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.”

States Land Paid Portions Worthless Airports Collecting Lease

Author:Neil Abercrombie

“After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.”

Sports Hurt Week Therapy Tested Airports Trainers Ribs Kentucky Richmond Dover

Author:Sterling Marlin

“I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.”

Needs Persons Helping Might Roles Late Models Angry Checks Role Models Tickets Airports Eric Camden

Author:Stephen Collins

“We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.”

People Law Numbers Watches Security Information Concern Lists Layers Airports Passengers Checkpoints

Author:John S. Pistole

“I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me.”

Worry Airports Towels

Author:Kerry King

“The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.”

Years Order Trouble Masters Trade Nine Airports Expertise Exotic Nine Years Jack Of All Trades

Author:Timothy Radcliffe

“Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.”

Should Wells Two Community Millions Customers Satisfied Fortunate Texas Airports Our Community Texan Jeopardize Satisfied Customers

Author:Michael C. Burgess

“When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.”

Believe Important Country Law I Believe Grows Huge Heavy Employee Bureaucracy Airports Provision Utilizing Tsa

Author:John Mica

“Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.”

Country Security Behavior Israel Technique Other Countries Bureaucracy Airports Transportation Detection Government Bureaucracy Tsa

Author:John Mica

“If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.”

Ifs Firsts Care Hours Building Huge Majors Down And Don't Care Planning Bridges I Don't Care Los Angeles Highways Airports Earthquakes Chaotic Railroads

Author:Warren Rudman

“I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Firsts Humor Would Be Funny Pieces Food Humorous Traveler Airports Airline Suitcases Luggage Dummy Air Travel

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities”

Important Community Quality Economic Development Areas Locals Urban Improving Airports Quality Of Life Strengthening Economic Development Iowa Rural Areas

Author:Chuck Grassley

“Airport take their own commercial decisions on their ownership structure. But this must not be at the expense of exploiting airlines through higher charges”

Decision Higher Structure Expenses Ownership Airports Airline

Author:Giovanni Bisignani

“A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely”

Suffering Nations Offers Alternatives Rely Fuel Delay Highways Airports Unstable Invaluable Congestion Amtrak Fuel Prices

Author:Jim Jeffords

“If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection.”

Ifs Use Months Connections Coffee Shops Airports Bucks Tunnels Wireless Hackers Coffee Shop Encryption

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.”

People Knows I Can Imagine Streets Yeah Following Airports

Author:Ellen Page

“When I was a very little boy I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.”

Littles Boys Air New York Design Patterns Planes Destination Airplane Airports Little Boys

Author:John Travolta

“I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.”

Ifs Feels Long Body Behinds Doors Terrible Airports Closing Procrastinator

Author:Greg Kinnear

“We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.”

Mean Has Beens Age Next Millions Fire Return Couple Capacity West Soldier Jew Israel Corners Wide Miles Shoulders Borders Fewer Protected Palestinian Airports Jet Missiles Gaza

Author:Ehud Olmert

“Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.”

Night Found Stars Simple Seeing Land Coffee Islands Shops Airplane Airports Bicycle Simple Things Nephew Coffee Shop

Author:Andrea Hirata

“It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way.”

“In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.”

People Different Soul Hell Devil Endless Maps Routes Airports Corridors Luggage

Book:Changing Planes: Stories

Source: Changing Planes: Stories

“Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.”

Percent Airports

Author:Chris Brown

“I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.”

Want Kids Father Airports

Author:Peter Jackson

“If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.”

Ifs Too Much Missing Spending Planes Airports

Author:George Stigler

“A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor.”

“I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.”

Needs Writing I Can Rooms Written Seats Hotel Airplane Airports Taxi Hotel Rooms

Author:Garrison Keillor

“They love a brown rice stir-fry, but they also love their 'Coke of the week'...My daughter gravitates toward fresh fruit and raw nuts but will inhale a bag of hot Cheetos at the airport. It's all about balance.”

Week Balance Daughter Hot Fruit Ridiculous Brown Bags My Daughter Nuts Airports Rice Pretentious Coke Inhale Stir Fry

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back.”

Ifs Loses Meetings Obvious Luxury Brands Expensive Get Back Airports Lectures Oxford Luggage Oxford University

Author:Kanye West

“Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.”

Running Three Democracy Greek Officials Airports Greece Athens

Author:Nigel Farage

“I'm a little disappointed I didn't get fiddled with by a TSA agent at the airport. I feel unwanted. Maybe next time.”

Feels Littles Next Agents Disappointed Wwe Next Time Airports Unwanted Tsa Maybe Next Time

Author:William Regal

“I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.”

Enjoy Planes Breakfast Airports Fever

Author:Julian Fellowes

“I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.”

Buying Airports Gadgets

Author:Tom Felton

“The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.”

Circles Airports Neurotic

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it’ll recede. In fact, I know it will. That’s life on planet earth. And I’m okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?”

Thinking Knows Facts Earth Levels Special Planets Fame Okay Tables Restaurants Treatment Airports Planet Earth Special Treatment

Author:Tina Fey

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