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Quotes About Flights

To me, in general, something that's really rich in terms of identity about transit spaces is that they're so intimate. Especially thinking about long international flights when we're trying to sleep on the plane - we're total strangers, but we're sleeping next to each other.
~ Laura van den Berg
On flights, I cannot travel economy class, as I am too huge to fit into that space. I always have to travel business class.
~ The Great Khali
There's a lot of power in handwriting a note, and business travelers have a ton of time to do that when they're sitting in airports or on flights.
~ Mark Schlereth
Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear.
~ Gerard Arpey
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~ Kashif
while the guilty discharge of carbon dioxide from twenty return flights and snowmobile rides and sixty hot meals a day served in polar conditions would be offset by planting three thousand trees in Venezuela as soon as a site could be identified and local officials bribed.
~ Ian Mcewan
On MLB team flights, adult beverages are often enjoyed. Usually, the youngest, most wet-behind-the-ears players will be responsible for carrying the beer and ultimately delivering it to the veterans.
~ Gabe Kapler
purchase of the long-distance ticket would contribute to the airline's decision about how many future flights it should run on this route. Unless bus routes are entirely insensitive to passenger demand – which is, one must admit, a possibility – then the same argument applies to
~ Tim Harford
It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.
~ Caroline Wozniacki
The process of overbooking is a complicated one. It's actually minimal. We, on certain flights, overbook by one or two people.
~ Oscar Munoz
Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
~ Vladimir Nabokov (translator)
Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.
~ larson doug iii
The biggest chore of training was coping with the nitpicking, rank-pulling, much-loathed lieutenant who oversaw their flights. Once, when one of Super Man's engines quit during a routine flight, Phil turned the plane back and landed at Kahuku, only to be accosted by the furious lieutenant in a speeding jeep, ordering them back up. When Louie offered to fly on three engines so long as the lieutenant joined them, the lieutenant abruptly changed his mind.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
~ Phil Collins
mitä minä kertoisin sinulla vaelluksesta kun tällä tyhjällä taivaalla poismenneiden kesän lintujen teräväpiirteiset haamut vielä etsivät vanhoja jälkiä; tai epätoivoisista lennoista kun vaimeinkin kirjavan siiven havina nostattaa riemun suosikkikaduillemme kuvitteellisessa keväässä
~ Leonard Cohen
The re-use of a Dragon capsule is yet another example of how SpaceX uses cargo flights to prove out new technologies that can be later used on crewed flights, and is a key step toward a commercial return to the Moon.
~ Bruce Pittman
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.
~ Andrea Bocelli
We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space.
~ Lincoln Davis
One of the chapters outlined in my book talks about the Iranian influence with Venezuela, these terror flights that go back and forth that we don't manifests on, and then nuclear material smuggled across our unsecure southwest border from Mexico into the United States.
~ Michael McCaul
Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.
~ Ben Parr
Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives.
~ Geoff Hoon
But the memory of the old life that returned to my mind was the endless series of defeats, of flights, of dangers; to begin again meant perhaps only a temporary extension of that death agony, the return to a phase I thought had already ended.
~ Italo Calvino
I spent nine days shooting the film 'Camera Trap' in Nepal in 2014. The journey consisted of four flights, including a terrifying one through the Himalayas in an 18-seater plane which landed on an icy runway, then a 4x4 ride to a lodge at the foot of a 400-year-old mountain village. The villagers were the kindest people I've ever met.
~ Mark Bonnar
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.
~ Louis Aragon