Jet Planes Quotes

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

  Jackie Kennedy

  Elephants, Camels, Feels

  "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

  Kind, Problem, Crash

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• Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

  Ben E. King

  Sorry, Kids, Feelings

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

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• I'm leaving on a jet plane
  Don't know when I'll be back again

  John Denver

  Song, Travel, Leaving

  "Leaving on a Jet Plane" (song) (1967)

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• A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don't worry so much about what you can't do; just do what you can as only you can do it.

  Dan Millman

  Motivational, Worry, Destination

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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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• all bags are pack ready to go i am standing here outside your door i hate to wake you up to say goodbye dawn is braking its early morn the taxi waiting he blowing his horn already i am so lonesome i could die so kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me and hold me like you never let me go cause leaving on a jet plane don't know when ill be back again oh babe i hate to go there so many let you down so many time i played around i tell you know that don't mean a thing every plase i go i'll think of you every song i sing i'll sing for you.

  John Denver

  Goodbye, Song, Hate

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• I see colors like you hear jet planes.

  Dave Eggers

  Color, Like You, Planes

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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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• 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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• Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.

  Barry Commoner

  Air, Cities, Achievement

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• Now there are a few things with a shelter - like with noise control, don't face dog runs facing each other that tends to encourage barking. The problem you've got is that the kind of materials that absorb noise are difficult to clean. One of the biggest problems in the design of animal shelters is that animals are barking and it's like the sound of a jet plane taking off.

  Temple Grandin

  Running, Dog, Animal

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames," and "gee it's a new technology I have got to have it."

  Howard Rheingold

  Real, Technology, People

  Source: medium.com

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• Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.

  John Loengard

  Loneliness, Car, Working Alone

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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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, Business Man

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Wings, Wheels, Truck

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• One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Real, Pleasure, Mansions

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• If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

  Diana Vreeland

  Morning, Differences, Long

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• First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Jobs, Kids

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• Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.

  J.R. Ward

  Men, Cities, Ego

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• Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.

  Robert Orben

  Cities, Scratches, Noise

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.266, Doubleday

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