Quotes Tagged "airports"

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
Tags: travel, humor, airports
As anyone over the age of thirty knows, Einstein was right: time really is relative. It speeds up as we get older (though it seems to slow down in airport security no matter what your age).
Tags: time, airports, age
I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the food, only to find that I couldn't do it justice, because my stomach had shrunk. And as a foreign tourist in North Korea, under the care of vigilant minders who wanted me to see only the best, I had enjoyed the finest fare available.
Tags: tourism-in-north-korea, tourism, totalitarianism, theatre, television, shenyang, pyongyang, propaganda, north-korea, newspapers, music, manchuria, literature, kim-jong-il, kim-il-sung, hunger, hero-worship, food, cults, cinema, books, airports, 2000