Linda Colley Quotes

I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days - huge crowds at airports, waiting around, late take-offs, weather problems, and so on. I don't really enjoy travelling. I don't imagine anyone does except young children.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.

The problem with airports is that we go there when we need to catch a plane - and because it's so difficult to find the way to the gate, we tend not to look around at our surroundings.

When you travel on Christmas, for you as the traveler - whether you're in 1A or 39D - there is a mental state that you have to put yourself in: that you're traveling at the busiest time of the year, and you're going to take whatever comes your way.

I'm not the biggest fan of airports. I try to arrive a few minutes before check-in closes.

I recently passed through Mumbai airport. I cannot claim it was a pleasant experience. But if I had a choice between Mumbai airport and Euston on a Sunday afternoon, I'd take Mumbai any day.

The holidays are the worst time to travel, and ISIS aren't making things any easier.

I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

Wherever I can get a fast track, I'll try to because I can't stand the airport experience. If you can afford priority boarding, then do it. Nobody wants an unpleasant experience before it starts.

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.

If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!

I'm not sure if I could bear to go on an aeroplane again. It's not my concern for the welfare of the planet. It's not even the long check-in times and queuing. No, it's the humiliation of the security process that has finally done it for me.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, 'Bye!'

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.

I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.

Why go through the hassle of running from airport to airport and you're still not getting anything done?

I just can't stand being in airports anymore. I just can't stand it.

I grew up in Boston, and we'd have every Thanksgiving at my parents' house there.

Airports drive me mad. I don't mind the flying; it's all the hassle before you get on the plane and afterwards, including walking five miles through corridors to the point where you queue for ages to check passports and hope your luggage has arrived safely.