“I had relatives who would go to Japan and bring back random stuff they bought at the airport or whatever – ‘Ultraman’ and ‘Speed Racer,’ stuff like that.”
“You know what I’ve always wanted to do? I’ve always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and send it through an airport security check. In effect, the guard would be looking at an X-ray of a lung.”
“I don’t do much driving – about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.”
“If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.”
“In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.”
“I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.”
“What would happen in the U.S. to terrorists who are not citizens? In less than 24 hours, they would be rounded up, taken to the airport and expelled.”
“I always think it’s kind of fun to get to the airport early, check in, and then go and have a meal before getting on the plane.”
“There’s parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you’re in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don’t like that a bit.”
“Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies’ butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything.”
“If I catch Corey Graves on the street, I’m gonna do something to him. I ain’t gonna do it at the office or the airport, but if I catch Corey Graves on the street, you see that little bouffant hairdo he got? I’m gonna rearrange it for him.”
“The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.”
“At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that I had to get a wheelchair at the airport to go on my honeymoon.”
“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve booked an air ticket only to get to the airport and find out they killed my ticket because it goes into the system, and the program tosses a ticket that says ‘fake’ on it. Twice I’ve gone to the counter for a KLM flight through Northwest and have been rejected.”
“Whenever I get in a car and I’m going to or from the airport or the train station, I put on a TED Talk using the TED app. It makes the trip go by super fast, and it fills my sails.”
“I used to be able to pick out the UFC fans when I was in the airport. Now, it could be anybody.”
“I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn’t tell anyone I was going.”
“Back in the early ’70s, there were two airlines that flew puddle jumpers from the Sarasota-Bradenton airport to Atlanta: National and Eastern, neither of which exists today.”
“I was a fan of football. I was more of a Raiders fan, but I knew who O.J. was. I knew The Juice, and I remember the Hertz commercials with him running to the airport and whatnot. So he was a highbrow celebrity in my eyes.”
“If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation’s capital, their task seems daunting.”
“I believe the public’s confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.”
“All human life can be found in an airport.”
“We’re building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link.”
“I’m pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link.”
“It’s absolutely essential that Melbourne, and Victoria, has a rail link to the airport.”
“My favorite airport snack is probably either a smoothie with berries and Greek yogurt from Jamba Juice or an Auntie Anne’s pretzel because I cannot walk past Auntie Anne’s smelling that without eating it.”
“Sky Harbor may be a city airport, but it’s an Arizona vital resource used by citizens all over the state, and our economy is dependent on its success.”
“From the time I was a little itty-bitty kid, I was going to the airport every day. I began to study all the airplanes, and I’d draw all the airplanes.”
“Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.”
“Who can guarantee that if we allow the Palestinians to establish a state, we won’t find rockets there as well, half a mile from the airport or 10 miles from Tel Aviv?”
“I’ve always wanted to write an airport book.”
“When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn’t need aerodynamic furniture.”
“If I never saw another airport again, I’d be happy!”
“There’s something really easy and just somehow un-crowded about the Portland airport. Every time I go there I’m like, ‘Why is this so easy and sweet?’”
“There’s no point being at the airport longer than needed.”
“I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.”
“Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.”
“In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.”
“Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example of this. Instead of choosing to acquire the land, the State asked the private parties to negotiate with the landowners directly. The State merely acted as an arbitrator.”
“Divestitures have long been the preferred remedy for horizontal mergers, where there’s an overlap between the two companies. Airlines, for example, may have to sell routes or airport gates where the two airlines compete; cable operators may have to sell operations in cities where both companies operate.”
“I have only ever been to Antigua to hop over to other Caribbean islands. The airport had always seemed perfectly lovely, but I’m a quiet sort of holiday girl, and Antigua always seemed big.”
“I despise places where you have to have an assigned seat. Makes me feel like I’m at the airport.”
“I had a journalist slap me, and it wasn’t anyone that I had ever met before. I was at the airport.”
“Taking a shuttle or even paying for a taxi to a rental office that’s a few miles away from the airport can mean a lower rate – 50 percent lower is common – for the same car, from the same company, for the same length of time. Many companies run free shuttles from some of the major airports.”
“I landed in 1980 in Bangkok, and I stopped to eat ten times between the airport and the hotel. It was all lemongrass and ginger and chilies.”
“LaGuardia Airport is tiny compared to its sleek modern counterparts, like Atlanta or Denver with their endless parallel runways spread over thousands of acres.”
“We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.”
“I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off.”
“I’m preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that’s coming up in New York City.”
“I’d like to fly. Then I wouldn’t have to wait in airport security lines.”
“I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world’s top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn’t speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled ‘tennis,’ and I went with that.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it’s mostly the airport or the drugstore.”
“I’m constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!”
“Actually, I can write anywhere – airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.”
“My reading life is like an airport where a bunch of planes circle in a holding pattern, then – boom, boom, boom – several come in for a landing.”
“Donald Trump wouldn’t work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife – as a fictional character, he’d seem too crudely drawn. Even in a trashy airport thriller, readers wouldn’t buy such a boor as president.”
“Working 16-hour days to ensure that I can pay my bills has been a bulk of my entrepreneurship life. And on days when I don’t, odds are I’m running to the airport.”
“Free trade creates jobs and prosperity in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam or the airport at Schiphol.”
“I have to say, running in flip-flops through the airport can be pretty tricky.”
“Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.”
“I’m a big hit with guards at security. They’re the center of my fan base, the airport security guards.”
“The head of ISIS called for attacks during the season of Ramadan, which is what you have seen both in Orlando and now in Istanbul at the airport.”
“As long as I’m an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.”
“Every role I’ve played, that could’ve happened. It’s nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.”
“Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It’s a really simple instrument, but it’s really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you – you can play it in your room, in an airport. It’s very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.”
“The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There’s a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt’s annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?”
“We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.”
“I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I always eat a meal at home before I leave for the airport, so I only eat the soup and salad on the plane.”
“Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn’t be as difficult. I can’t imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.”
“I didn’t want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.”
“Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It’s a big challenge.”
“I’m one of those people at the airport holding a pillow like a little kid.”
“Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.”
“I don’t like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.”
“I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher.”
“We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.”
“Fans in Brazil cross the line. A few times at Fluminense, the fans would go to the airport after we had played away to shout at us.”
“Real wrestling fans always knew Hogan couldn’t wrestle. And he’s not exactly an intellectual, either… The path he chose is very simple. He wears spandex in the airport. That’s his identification as a man.”
“I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.”
“I always keep a plane on the pole at the airport.”
“I’ve been enjoying ‘Life on the Mississippi’ by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It’s very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.”
“You can’t really sit and start singing into a laptop at an airport. Well, you could, but you’d have a lot of sound in the background.”
“I’ve been to Reagan National Airport. I tell people it was named after me.”
“Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O’Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.”
“There’s a scene I particularly like in ‘Betrayed’ where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he’s injured – to a horrified Elena.”
“If it hadn’t been for record people like Ralph Peer, the Chess brothers, and Alan Lomax, then life would’ve been unbelievably dull, and I would’ve been sacking groceries somewhere and probably, at this point, running a little 7-Eleven down by the airport.”
“Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.”
“There are a lot of folks out there that love the convenience of the Kansas City airport. That’s one of the biggest things it’s got going for it.”
“It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.”
“The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.”
“Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we darken New York from now until the last human expires? Would we want to turn off all the radars at JFK airport?”
“For a long while, I was really against Twitter. I mean, who cares if I’m in an airport or had broccoli for dinner?”
“I like to layer when I fly – the climate always changes from the airport to the plane to the new city.”
“Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.”
“When I was 18, I was working at Luton airport and spending all my money on going out and buying tops. I had no fears, no responsibilities.”
“I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.”
“It is quite surreal when you go to places up the north, like Inner Mongolia, and you are getting mobbed at the airport.”
“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.”
“With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added responsibility to take anti-terrorism precautions while protecting our area.”
“Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.”
“I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.”
“With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.”
“My one guilty pleasure is, every airport, I will drop everything to get an airport massage at those kiosks.”
“I go to the airport and I’ve had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven’t realized yet, though, that we are at war.”
“I fell for MUJI socks at their store in N.Y.C.’s JFK airport, and now I get them in bundles.”
“I’m so proud of this show and I’m really stoked that fans were so enthusiastic about the show so quickly. I mean, I got recognized for ‘Arrow’ at the airport when I was headed to Vancouver to shoot the second episode. That was kind of crazy.”
“I wrapped a movie called ‘Zombieland,’ in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character. With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie.”
“Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.’s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.”
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