Jet Quotes - Page 2

• When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

  Joseph Monninger

  Swim, Trout, Doe

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• A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.

  Raj Patel

  Hurt, New York, Oklahoma

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• I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

  Molly Sims

  Running, Lag, Towns

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• Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.

  George Reisman

  Dark, Intelligent, Space

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• The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Powerful, Mind, Needs

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• Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.

  Benjamin Wittes

  Impact, Government, Asking

  "Why We Publish Leaks," Washington Post, 13 February 1998. The question is not whether the Post should "denounce" leaks-truly a red herring- but whether it will use leaks that put U.S. personnel in danger.

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• I spent the nights before the Jets' two biggest games last year - for the AFL championship and the Super Bowl - with girls. But I don't consider that bad or foolish of me... The night before a game, I prepare myself both mentally and physically for the next day. I think a ballplayer has to be relaxed to play well; and if that involves being with a girl that night, he should do it.

  Joe Namath

  Girl, Night, Thinking

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Lawrence Linderman, thestacks.deadspin.com. 1969.

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• I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

  Barack Obama

  Cnn, Politics, Littles

  "Transcript: Obama remarks at White House Correspondents' Association dinner", www.foxnews.com. May 4, 2014.

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• Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.

  Mary Pipher

  Country, Children, Home

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.44, Penguin

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• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Spiritual, Men, Imagination

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes”

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• The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

  Lance Morrow

  Might, Mail, Modern Life

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• When youre in a fighter jet and theres a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, its light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

  Yves Rossy

  Dark, Clouds, Light

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• What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

  Noel Gallagher

  Morning, Drinking, People

  "The Noel Gallagher life management system" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like Ebony and Jet magazines.

  Desiree Rogers

  Opportunity, Magazines, Johnson

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• In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add reinforcements to the south. Then in a symbolic gesture he pulled down the mission accomplished banner, put on a flight suit, walked backwards to a jet fighter and flew it in reverse off an aircraft carrier.

  Tina Fey

  Home, Iraq, President

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• I don't own a jet, but I rent jets in my spare time. That's the quickest and most comfortable.

  Justin Bieber

  Spare Time, Spares, Comfortable

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• After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.

  Joe Namath

  Nfl, Years, Play

  "Sporting News conversation with Joe Namath: 'The guarantee was basically just an attitude'". Interview with Clifton Brown, www.sportingnews.com. January 27, 2012.

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• And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west, between us and the Rockies, there is basically nothing tall, and that weird zephyrs and stirs joined breezes and gusts and thermals and downdrafts and whatever out over Nebraska and Kansas and moved like streams into rivers and jets at and military fronts that gathered like avalanches and roared in reverse down pioneer oxtrails, toward our own personal unsheltered asses.

  David Foster Wallace

  Military, Real, Rivers

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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• I'm a jet jockey and I've always escaped ever since I was a kid. I've always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play hard type thing. It's not been a mid-life thing at all, it's been a habit because I think it changes your environment and how you feel even if it's for the day. It's a good thing.

  John Travolta

  Hard Work, Kids, Weekend

  "Wild Hogs - John Travolta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.

  Morgan Freeman

  Light, Too Late, Before It's Too Late

  "The Bucket List - Morgan Freeman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Lying, Private Jet

  "Oprah: It’s Great to Have a Private Jet" by Robert Frank, blogs.wsj.com. May 11, 2009.

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• Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you know I might get busted. But my heart keeps calling me backwards, as I get on the 707. Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes, you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. Big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay.

  Steve Miller

  Goodbye, Travel, Eye

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• All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

  Amar Bose

  Military, Jet Engines, Design

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• You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

  Don Johnson

  Acting, Transition, Lag

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Lying, Artist

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.189, Harvard University Press

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