Ronna McDaniel Quotes

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.

Everyone keeps asking me when I have time to rest. I'll tell you when: I get all my sleep on planes. If the flight is five hours, my nap is five hours! I'll sleep through the whole flight.

I'm really lucky because I can sleep on planes. I wear an eye mask, I have a book, and I sit down and pass out pretty easily. I know that not everyone can. I think I'm good at it because I travel so much, and for me, being on planes is like a sacred time. It's the only time to zone out and meditate.

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.

The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read.

When you're on the road a lot, you're in perpetual search of a good night's sleep.

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.

It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

There are months when I'm on a plane every day!

I'm generally so disoriented during the week about what I'm doing and where I am - I travel a lot - that when I'm home on a Sunday, I typically try to sleep in as much as I can.

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

My biggest thrill in life is to read in the afternoon until I fall asleep and take a nap.

I like flying to New York from London. It's like a day off for me. No phone or e-mails. Food, wine, iPod, movies, snoozing.

Flights are a good way to catch up on podcasts, but I'll listen to some jazz to fall asleep.

I play videogames all the time on the plane.

Nothing feels better then to sit down on a six-hour flight with tired muscles from a workout.

I don't sleep well when I'm traveling, so there's nothing I like more than getting in my own bed.

Make sure you own a good bed and a good pair of shoes because if you're not in one, you're in the other.

I've learned how to sleep on airplanes. When I'm taking a trans-Atlantic flight or going to a different continent, I will always read because reading puts me to sleep. When you watch a movie, you have all that light coming to your eyes, but with reading, I can't get through 15 or 20 pages.

I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air