Martin Parr Quotes

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

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.

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

I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.

I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.

I have so many miles and I've been flying for so long that every time I fly, it's first class. It's one of those things that, if I needed to jump on a plane, and fly to Spain tomorrow, I know I could get it done. Just like that.

I've been abroad, I've been at home. I've even flown 10 hours away for an interview, so I've done a lot of miles. I should probably be an ambassador for British Airways.

It's awesome, I tell everyone that the U.K. is one of my favourite places to go.

Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is, starting with broad categories such as "mineral" and "linoleum."

I am still playing 'Words With Friends,' but on Virgin Atlantic.

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

People don't really look forward to flying that much. It's like they want to get to the place, but they don't look forward to the experience.

We’ve arrived,” Leo announced. “Time to Split.” Frank groaned. “Can we leave Valdez in Croatia?

By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can't fly

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

Mile high club, it's got its ups and downs.

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.