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Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks. -- Salman Rushdie
Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect. -- George Pendle
...Hell, which as every frequent traveler knows, is in Concourse D of O'Hare Airport. -- Dave Barry
Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City. -- Jessica Hagedorn
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo? -- Douglas Adams
Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are. -- David Letterman
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan. -- Eddie Trunk
I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport. -- George W. Bush
They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added responsibility to take anti-terrorism precautions while protecting our area. -- Sue Kelly
I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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. -- Russell Baker
The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security. -- Ted Cruz
Airport take their own commercial decisions on their ownership structure. But this must not be at the expense of exploiting airlines through higher charges -- Giovanni Bisignani
I love steakhouses. When I'm in Chicago, I know there's a Gibsons that's open late. 13 Coins at Sea-Tac Airport in Washington is a gourmet restaurant I love. -- Triple H
Airport Cars UK are always helpful and on time when we go on holiday. They have also done themselves proud with the executive people carriers at my sister-in-law's wedding -- Shane Richie
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. -- Sue Kelly
It happened again this week. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Seems every time somebody went through with a weapon, the metal detectors accidentally went off. -- Jay Leno
Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd. -- James Purefoy
The growth of Stewart Airport creates new jobs for area residents, brings new business and new travelers to the region, and brings new convenient travel options to those of us living in the Hudson Valley. -- Sue Kelly
But we agree with the NTSB that if we eliminated the thrust- reverser calculation, it would be an extra margin of safety. Airport capacity and airline efficiency are important, but safety is the most important thing. -- Laura Brown
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way. -- Cynthia Ozick
Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's. -- Carol Leifer
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it's a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa. -- Paddy Ashdown
The beauty of new media is that no evidence is necessary. The brave blog-troopers have stormed the cockpit of news, and wrestled the joystick of authority away from the seasoned pilots of the press who would land our country at the Facts International Airport. -- Stephen Colbert
Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries? -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets. -- Jane Jacobs
All human life can be found in an airport. -- David Walliams
Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed. -- Eydie Gorme
I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off. -- Jesse Ventura
In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur. -- Jon Porter
I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love. -- Taylor Swift
Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome. -- Muhammad Ali
Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things. -- Richard Scarry
I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches. -- Andre Leon Talley
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes. -- Fidel Castro
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. -- Andrea Hirata
I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc. -- Mark Skousen
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor. -- Sloane Crosley
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. -- Kevin Mitnick
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public. -- Tom Wolfe
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors. -- Douglas Rushkoff
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. -- Annie Jacobsen
We have a huge family history with Singapore because we have the duty-free shops in the airports. It's a very industrious city. It's beautiful, and Singaporeans have this wonderful desire for, and love of, luxury goods. You can see how well thought out and planned the city is with the best boutiques. -- Marie-Chantal Claire
I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. -- Dick Gregory
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. -- Cory Monteith
My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else. -- Greg Wise
With me, traveling for work is arriving at the airport, checking into the hotel, leaving the hotel the next morning at 4 or 5 to do something like 'The Jimmy and Jackie Captain Crazy Morning Zoo,' doing a bunch of those in a row, then going back to the hotel, and then finally going to the club. -- Gilbert Gottfried
When checking in at an airport, no matter how rude the check-in person is to you, always smile and be nice because you don't know what kind of day they've had. You are going on holiday and they're stuck wherever they are. Be nice to them because they can re-route your baggage to wherever they feel like. -- Ross Kemp
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class. -- Bharati Mukherjee
To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle. -- Bill Bryson
You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing. -- Taylor Lautner
I want to be a Bond girl. Think about it - I have metal components in my legs, so when I go through airport security, I set off the alarms. But when they realize why I'm beeping, they let me through. What if I had weapons in my legs? I could take one off and pull out an Uzi! Legs Galore - that would be me! -- Aimee Mullins
Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport. -- Nicolas Cage
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I want my books sold on airport bookstalls. -- Stephen Hawking
I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks. -- Tom Hodgkinson
If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy! -- Emm Gryner
The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'. -- Beano Cook
An airport carpet can tell you everything about its surroundings! -- George Pendle
If idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport. -- Laura Davenport
The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I'm still trying to understand the wearing off high heels at the airport. -- Godfrey
When to arrive at the airport?: You should be at the airport already. -- Dave Barry
With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy. -- Tom Udall
Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train. -- Leigh Michaels
In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang. -- Ike Turner
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport. -- Henny Youngman
Animals may be our friends, but they won't pick you up at the airport. -- Bobcat Goldthwait
If you never miss a plane, you're spending too much time at the airport. -- George Stigler
I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport. -- Rebecca Miller
I'd like to fly. Then I wouldn't have to wait in airport security lines. -- Jim Morris
I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport. -- Zayn Malik
Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport -- Frank Zappa
I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father. -- Peter Jackson
I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags. -- Guy Clark
I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport. -- Ariel Pink
I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport. -- Charles M. Schulz
People who say life is precious don't spend much time on line at the airport. -- Dov Davidoff
You knew you were an Arab if your ride form the airport was two dozen people. -- Mohja Kahf
Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc. -- Peter Menzel
I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days. -- Roger Moore
Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north. -- Kate Mosse
As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years. -- Frankie Boyle
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done. -- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
The service at this airport restaurant is so bad I'm starting to panic that I'm a ghost. -- Kristen Schaal
When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British. -- Brenda Fricker
At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers. -- Warren Ellis
Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore. -- Julianne Moore
Since the national team doesn't have a stadium yet, they'll come to play here, at Sofia airport. -- Ivan Slavkov
As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job. -- Michael Moriarty
Intelligence is the airport; will power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives. -- George Mikes
I think we should start a movement, and everyone should just start wearing metal pants to the airport. -- Ed Robertson
Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security. -- Dave Barry
My wife's nagging is like living near the airport. After a while you don't notice it any more. -- Tom Arnold
There is a bomb on board, we are meeting their demands, we are heading back to the airport. -- Ziad Jarrah
I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop. -- Andy Gray
I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored. -- Neil Young
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport. -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City. -- James Green
I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around. -- Dave Barry
When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture. -- Emilio Pucci
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away. -- Shaun White
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport. -- Douglas Adams
I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about. -- Dave Barry
The only way to explain how some people dress for the airport is they think no one else will be there. -- Andy Borowitz
Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart. -- Michael T. Flynn
The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport. -- Lionel Shriver
Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me. -- Charley Pride
I'm a little disappointed I didn't get fiddled with by a TSA agent at the airport. I feel unwanted. Maybe next time. -- William Regal
Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly. -- Simon Hoggart
When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British. -- Brenda Fricker
I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport. -- Haruki Murakami
I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can't afford to forget. -- Warsan Shire

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