- Cars (Sally)
- Great time
Well, the road didn't cut through the land like that interstate. It moved with the land, it rose, it fell, it curved. Cars didn't drive on it to make great time. They drove on it to have a great time.
Alan De Botton
- A Week at the Airport
It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us to recognize the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognize from day to day.
Alain De Botton
- A week at the airport
The sky was a chemical orange colour, observing the final hours of the fragile curfew it had been keeping ever since it had swallowed up the last of the previous evening's Asia-bound flights. Jutting from the side of the terminal was the disembodied tail of a British Airways A312, anticipating another imminent odyssey in the merciless cold of the lower stratosphere.
Camara Laye
It was like watching the growth of a great genealogical tree that spread its branches far and wide and flourished its boughs and twigs before my eyes.
