Jet Quotes

• From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Heart, Delight

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• The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Reality, Blood, Stopping

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• Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Clever, Business

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• Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

  Jet Li

  Art, Stars, Two

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• A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Elephants, Camels, Jet Planes

  "A Hero for Our Time". Book by Ralph G Martin, 1983.

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• Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

  Lawrence Summers

  Jet Planes, Kind, Problem

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• I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well.

  Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

  Military, Marine, Men

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• I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Boxing, World

  Twitter post from Nov 25, 2009

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• I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wings, Jet Planes, Wheels

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• I'd like to get shot into space. I'd like to potentially visit the moon. I don't know if I can do that in the next couple years, but I spent some time at the jet propulsion lab, looking out at the future of when a guy like me can do a little space travel.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Couple, Moon, Years

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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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• Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

  Graham Greene

  Travel, Men, Jet Planes

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• I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.

  Jerry Doyle

  Wall, Growing Up, Flying

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• I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

  Jerry Doyle

  Air, Years, Fishing

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• When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.

  Jerry Doyle

  Nice, Years, Limos

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

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• In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.

  Jet Li

  Fun, Fighting, Reality

  "Jet Li Gets Philosophical in Fearless". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 19, 2006.

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• Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

  Jason Statham

  Movie, Inspired, Busy

  Interview with Dan Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 15, 2003.

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• The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation.

  Piers Corbyn

  Weather, Keys, Storm

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• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  Gary Ackerman

  Hands, Luxury, People

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• I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.

  Laz Alonso

  Winter, Past, Lakes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to own the New York Jets, that's what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  New York, Believe, Want

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• Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.

  Chuck D

  Real, Rap, Roots

  "Return of the great rap rebel" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2008.

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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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• 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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