Jet Quotes - Page 6

• When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies.

  Morgan Freeman

  Airplane, Fighting, Flying

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• I live on the water and I have jet skis. Skiing is my biggest thing, I've been skiing since I was five-years-old.

  Cedric Gervais

  Years, Water, Skiing

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• There are no women in these ground combat jobs.Women, of course, have been flying combat missions in fighter jets, attack helicopters, for more than 20 years, but beginning this week, those ground combat jobs in infantry, artillery and armor will be open to women. Officials don't expect a rush of women interested.

  Renee Montagne

  Jobs, Years, Flying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Jet ski and wild noises.

  DJ Khaled

  Noise, Skis

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• They don't want you to jet ski, they don't want you to smile.

  DJ Khaled

  Want, Skis

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• We are living at a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension - huge yachts, jet planes, tens of billions of dollars, more money than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes. But at the same time, millions of people are struggling to feed their families or put a roof over their heads or find the money to go to a doctor.

  Bernie Sanders

  Struggle, Doctors, People

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• We need less travelling by jet plaes from congress to congress... but more kneeling and praying and pleading to God to have mercy on us, more crying to God to arise and scatter his enemies and make himself known.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Enemy, Needs, Kneeling

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• In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.

  Tina Fey

  Dog, Order, Too Late

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• Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.

  Dave Grohl

  Couple, People, Records

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• The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow.

  Monica Dickens

  Immigration, Lag, Baggage

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• Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class?

  Eddie Izzard

  Thinking, Jet Engines, Class

  FaceBook post by Eddie Izzard from Aug 02, 2014

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• In just 20 years terrorism, communications, the jet plane and the increase of wealth and knowledge have forced, to varying degrees, world leaders into a haunted and secret peerage whose links with the people they guide are meticulously cleansed and staged.

  Hugh Sidey

  Communication, Years, People

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• Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees... I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92, but... thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!

  Red Buttons

  Cancer, Feet, Florida

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• All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Travel, People, Lag

  Mary-Lou Weisman, Edward Koren (2003). “Traveling While Married”, p.1, Algonquin Books

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• Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them to do adult things like drive cars, Jet-Ski, and lip-synch. I’m in awe of their little limbs, their large craniums, and their medicine-ball asses. I love the little baby steps they take while shifting their weight from side to side, and the fact that when you knock one over accidentally, he flails like a turtle on its back that can’t get up right away.

  Chelsea Handler

  Baby, Turtles, Medicine

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Ambition, Lakes

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Tattoo, Dream, Fashion

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• My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Flower, Book, Cat

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.306, A&C Black

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• I see colors like you hear jet planes.

  Dave Eggers

  Color, Jet Planes, Like You

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• I think the Jets came in with a legitimate offer. At that point, I hadn't had one from the Eagles. I had to think, 'I've really got to work up here [in New York]? Do you really want to deal with that on a weekly basis?

  Jon Runyan

  New York, Thinking, Eagles

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• I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.

  Douglas Coupland

  Crazy, Dark, Pigs

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• Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

  William Gibson

  New York, Lag, Towns

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.8, Penguin

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• He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.

  J. K. Rowling

  Football, Clouds, Blue

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• believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Believe, Princess

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• The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition. (Written in 1949, 22 years before the World Trade Center was completed.)

  E. B. White

  New York, Islands, Years

  Here Is New York (1949)

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