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Daily Inspiration Quote by Eva Herzigova

"We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde"

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There’s a sly glamour in the mundanity of it: not “we fly,” but “we’re constantly buying airplane tickets.” The verb is consumption, not movement, a model’s-eye view of travel as an accessory you keep replenishing. Then the punch line lands: “we travel on the Concorde.” In a single beat, Herzigova turns routine logistics into a status flare, the way fashion turns a basic tee into a signal. The phrase “constantly buying” is almost a shrug at privilege; the Concorde is the exclamation point.

Context matters. In the ’90s and early 2000s, the supermodel wasn’t just a clothes-hanger; she was a global brand, shuttled between runway circuits, shoots, and parties, living inside an economy that demanded perpetual presence. The Concorde, with its mythic speed and prohibitive ticket price, wasn’t simply transportation. It was a technology of elite compression: you could work London and dine in New York, collapsing time zones the way celebrity collapses distance from ordinary life.

The subtext is both boast and coping mechanism. Framed as a matter-of-fact schedule update, the line performs effortlessness: of course this is how “we” live. That “we” is doing work, too, placing her inside a class of itinerant professionals for whom constant motion is normal, even compulsory. It’s aspirational on the surface, but there’s a faint fatigue underneath: when your life is tickets and terminals, speed becomes less luxury than survival.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Herzigova, Eva. (2026, January 16). We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-constantly-buying-airplane-tickets-we-travel-100994/

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Herzigova, Eva. "We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-constantly-buying-airplane-tickets-we-travel-100994/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-constantly-buying-airplane-tickets-we-travel-100994/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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Eva Herzigova (born March 10, 1973) is a Model from Czech Republic.

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