American Airline Passenger

Famous quotes containing the words american, airline and/or passenger:

    “The women’s liberation movement at this point in history makes the American Communist Party of the 1930s look like a monolith.”
    —Nora Ephron (b. 1941)

    “My job as a reservationist was very routine, computerized ... I had no free will. I was just part of that stupid computer.”
    —Beryl Simpson, U.S. employment counselor; former airline reservationist. As quoted in Working, book 2, by Studs Terkel (1973)

    “Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
    —Willa Cather (1876–1947)