Top 100 Quotes About Air Travel
#1. Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.
Amelia Earhart
#2. People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.
Daniel Kahneman
#3. Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?
Justine Bateman
#4. For all the jokes and complaints about the aches of air travel, it's pretty marvelous, if you think about it.
Tsh Oxenreider
#6. We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.
John Olver
#7. The worst thing that happened to air travel in the past ten years was the bankruptcy of Xhibit Corp., the parent company of SkyMall. I recalled with clarity the first time I boarded a flight and it was missing from all usual nooks and crannies. It had been a dark day.
L. H. Cosway
#8. The super-EMP had greater effect than anyone could have predicted. Engines halted, turbines stilled, even laser systems failed. No air travel. No cell phones. We had plunged back into the early 1800s. -- Lucas Cole, REPUBLIC
Lucas Cole
#9. There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.
Regina Brett
#10. Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
Erica Jong
#11. Travel in car, because you can stop. Air travel any more is a nightmare. I think it's the same for everyone. If I have a choice to stand in line to get x-rayed, or see scenery, I'll take scenery.
Steve Kimock
#12. Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.
Bruce Schneier
#13. Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.
Alex Pareene
#14. Logically, he understood air travel was completely possible.
Emotionally, he found the idea of an enormous, tremendously heavy metal object filled with people propelling itself through the sky for thousands of miles completely improbable.
Marshall Thornton
#15. Where would we be without science? Sure, those boffins may have come up with occasionally handy items such as life-saving medicine, air travel and the internet, but science is also guilty of some terrible things, like eugenics and Jordan's breasts.
Ian O'Doherty
#16. In the past five years, C. diff has spread across the globe, helped in large part by air travel, the availability and frequent use of antibiotics, and the graying of the world's population.
J. Thomas LaMont
#17. The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.
Virginia Postrel
#18. choosing an idyllic ocean cruise over the whirlwind body cavity search that was air travel.
Dan Fiorella
#19. People who can't hack it as Irwins because they're too violent go into the air travel industry.
Mira Grant
#20. I don't think our government really has much of a policy about air travel. I would compare the policies of United Arab Emirates, which has done a terrific job recognizing the value of transportation, of travel.
Jeff Smisek
#21. The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.
Nick Hanauer
#22. During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
David Bohm
#23. The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.
Noam Chomsky
#24. Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places.
Dan Quayle
#25. There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune."
"You'll have to risk it ... and so will I," Frank said. "By the way, we're related."
Percy almost stumbled off the roof. "What?
Rick Riordan
#26. In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.
Eric Burdon
#27. When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.
Tom Conti
#28. Whatever the benefits of prolific and convenient air travel, we may curse it for its smooth subversion of our attempts to use journeys to make lasting changes in our lives.
Alain De Botton
#29. Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys.
Dov Davidoff
#30. Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander Chase
#31. Birds looked like an echo of birds, fat white clouds looked as if they were there to sell you fabric softener or air travel or health insurance.
Alexandra Kleeman
#32. We've only had aircrafts for a hundred years, and yet look at us. So, I've become absolutely fascinated by this strange, bizarre world of airports, air travel and transportation. It's interesting.
Dallas Campbell
#33. The European Union spends most of its time either suing me, torturing me, criticizing me or condemning me for lowering the cost of air travel all over Europe.
Michael O'Leary
#34. Air travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al Gore
#35. People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.
Dan Lipinski
#36. My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
Pico Iyer
#37. A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.
Ray LaHood
#38. There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.
Bill Bryson
#39. What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.
Gwynne Shotwell
#40. Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#41. A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
Charles C. Mann
#42. The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read.
Jane Lindskold
#43. Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.
Peter Diamandis
#44. The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.
Virginia Postrel
#45. My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.
John Niven
#46. Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.
P. J. O'Rourke
#47. Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.
Sloane Crosley
#48. Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.
Janet Napolitano
#49. TWENTY YEARS AFTER the end of air travel, the caravans of the Traveling Symphony moved slowly under a white-hot sky.
Emily St. John Mandel
#50. Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
Erma Bombeck
#51. The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.
Jim Shanahan
#52. I want to move to the mountains. I want to live in a little cabin next to a towering, tenacious mountain fourteen thousand feet above sea level and eat a bowl of raisin bran every morning in its shadow.
Jess Riley
#53. Legs: the symbol of my solitude, my individual path, my uniqueness. Arms: the symbol of togetherness, my connection to others, my belonging to the human race. My legs make me who I am; they create my solitary path. My arms make me who I belong to; they connect me to the world.
Nicos Hadjicostis
#54. Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.
Jane Clayson
#55. When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.
Drew Carey
#56. It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.
Peter Facinelli
#57. You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something.
Tim Cahill
#58. May my soul forever stay wild and my spirit always be adventurous.
Zascha Friis
#59. The spark lies within us, somewhere deep within! Once you find it, that will illuminate the whole path you travel, all lives upon your way and the very purpose of your life. O beloved, know this world is illuminated by people so!
Preeth Nambiar
#60. The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.
Jim Harrison
#61. I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#62. After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.
Wallace Stegner
#63. In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbor's house.
Tony Fernandes
#64. And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.
Paul Fussell
#65. Being more aware will enable you to have only astonishing impressions, avoiding any of the disappointing experiences like some of those we went through.
Sahara Sanders
#66. Boxing's given me the chance to travel around the world and open the door and the world is much brighter.
Vitali Klitschko
#67. All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?
Gertrude Bell
#68. May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
E. E. Cummings
#69. Plan for the rest of my life, I will travel the world and retire in the himalayas.
Poonam Parihar
#72. The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
John Pomfret
#73. Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?
Sinclair Lewis
#74. There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal life, is the headstone of travel.
Juliette De Bairacli Levy
#75. The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason why we have not been to Mars and will likely never go there successfully with humans.
Steven Magee
#77. Hope gives us a reason to live and to make plans for our future. But common sense gives us knowledge that God has control over our life. Life is a journey. We hope and plan our future as we travel each day.
Ellen J. Barrier
#78. When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
A.A. Milne
#79. Linear's defeated form
The intangible reality rise.' ~ Wanderer
Stella Coulson
#81. I just wish we could move faster.' He chin-pointed to Nico. 'I don't see how this kid is going to last one more jump. How many more will it take us to get home?
Rick Riordan
#82. Listen to your Own Heart Concerning the Path you Wish to Travel.
Wayne Dyer
#83. I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel ... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.
Catherine Deneuve
#84. All I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time.
Haruki Murakami
#85. Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.
Donald Hall
#86. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.
Gina Greenlee
#87. No matter what transpires between us, in this life or in any other, I will be with you always. You really are my soul mate. We have traveled together before, and we will travel together again.
Diane Rinella
#88. The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..
Paul Theroux
#89. One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.
Sarah Glidden
#90. Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.
Graham Nash
#92. But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.
John Scalzi
#94. Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. it was often on trpis that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary.
Paul Bowles
#95. If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You'll always travel in the direction of your thinking.
T.D. Jakes
#96. Choose only one master - Nature.
Rembrandt
#97. No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.
Chuck Thompson
#98. I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.
Les Dawson
#99. Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.
Albert Hadley
