Robert Crandall Quotes

#1. Yes, I call your beautiful world mutant and perverse. So would you if you had seen the original. If you had, you would know how far we've all veered, how like a cancer things have grown.

Tosca Lee

#2. Do you ever think that people who find it tougher to say what they're feeling are the ones who feel things more intensely? As if they're the ones who really understand what it means to love someone? As if they have to keep their defenses high, because they care too much and have too much to lose?

Claire Cross

#3. If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

Robert Crandall

#4. Confine your kissing to the irresistible.

Rudolf Bing

#5. I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.

Pat Conroy

#6. I add a lot of citrus to my food and I think that flavors it. And, to me, that what makes it healthier, lower in fat, lower in calories. It adds lots of flavor. Spices, of course. But citrus is definitely kind of my go-to to season and really to really make those flavors, make that food come alive.

Cat Cora

#7. If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.

Robert Crandall

#8. A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money,

Robert Crandall

#9. The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

Robin Morgan

#10. [Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.

Robert Crandall

#11. If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.

Robert Crandall

#12. I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.

Robert Crandall

#13. The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'

Robert Crandall

#14. One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.

Sebastian Junger

#15. I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

Robert Crandall

#16. The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.

Robert Crandall

#17. I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.

Sarah J. Maas

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H.G.Wells

#19. You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Robert Crandall

#20. Destiny has more than one road.

Nora Roberts

#21. I want the world to see my body.

Marilyn Monroe

#22. I am a bad actor."
"Not for me or my camera. I see the person, not some idea he wants to make himself into."
"I'm all idea today."
"I definitely don't see it."
"I'm playing the idea of death. Look closely," he said.

Don DeLillo

#23. I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

Robert Crandall

#24. This is a nasty, rotten business.

Robert Crandall

#25. Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.

Gemma Malley