Some day my ship will come in, and with my luck I’ll be at the airport.
Airplanes Quotes
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to […]
If flying is so safe, why do they call an airport the ‘terminal’?
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
If God had meant us to fly he’d have given us wings.
The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.
The airport aesthetic is an extension of the in-flight aesthetic. The air is as quiet and lifeless as can be engineered. Aside from PA announcements, you hear little but real Muzak, mellow adult-contemporary music, or whooshy silence… It not only muffles the energy of all those people going all those places, it extends the airline […]
I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of… I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society. (1896)
