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  • A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. -- Jackie Kennedy
  • The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. -- Sylvia Plath
  • Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass. -- Richelle Mead
  • I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li. -- Ang Lee
  • From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. -- Lucretius
  • You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He's great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn't last long. -- Chuck Liddell
  • One of my favorite luxuries in life is travel. Jet lag and lost baggage aside, it's an incredible way to learn about other cultures, meet new people, broaden your horizons... and do some amazing shopping! -- Amanda Hearst
  • If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship. -- Barack Obama
  • 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
  • My name's Jet Steele. -- Richelle Mead
  • Jet lag is for amateurs. -- Dick Clark
  • Jet ski and wild noises. -- DJ Khaled
  • Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport. -- Sharni Vinson
  • I love Jet Li, he's really special. -- Bridget Fonda
  • Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces -- Paul McCartney
  • And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette. -- Paul McCartney
  • What was that action? (Aimee) Chuck Norris meets Jet Li. (Dev) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies. -- Jason Statham
  • Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like Ebony and Jet magazines. -- Desiree Rogers
  • Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines. -- Desiree Rogers
  • Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men. -- Graham Greene
  • Bruce Lee's fast pace, Jet Li's pretty style and Jet Li's acrobatics combine with Muay Thai for my own style. -- Tony Jaa
  • Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski. -- Nicholas G. Carr
  • I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American. -- Barry Eisler
  • On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. -- Ahmed Zewail
  • I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man really reaches, across the vast seas of space, he still reaches in ships. -- John Fowles
  • Jet lag depends on which direction you're going and it can be a little complicated, but there are a few different treatments. So one would be if you're going somewhere - sorry it's hard to think about it. -- Shelby Harris
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  • Is Adrian here?" "Who?" "Adrian. Tall. Brown hair. Green eyes." She frowned. "Do you mean Jet?" "I "¦ I'm not sure. Does he smoke like a chimney?" The girl nodded sagely. "Yup. You must mean Jet. -- Richelle Mead
  • I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or fifty years because that picture stimulated a lot of interest and anger on the part of blacks all over the country. -- Charles Diggs
  • A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and make me happy, like stand-up paddling and Jet Skiing - things I'd never done before. Or being with people I love and just enjoying life. -- Lindsey Vonn
  • The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory. -- Brendan I. Koerner
  • People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie. -- Jet Li
  • 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. -- Jet Li
  • It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium -- Dick Trickle
  • Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. -- Steven Wright
  • I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun! -- Ric Flair
  • I've always been big into snowmobiles, four-wheelers, jet skis, all kinds of those X Games kind of things. -- Ben Roethlisberger
  • Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it. -- Megan Fox
  • When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag. -- Orlando Bloom
  • A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. -- Bruce Lee
  • I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. -- Muhammad Ali
  • 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.
  • We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation. -- Adolf Galland
  • I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled. -- Ricky Martin
  • Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them? -- Ann Coulter
  • The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • 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
  • 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
  • Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement. -- Elon Musk
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  • I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets. -- Ronald Reagan
  • Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior. -- John Sununu
  • The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. -- Richard Branson
  • I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job. -- Bruce Dickinson
  • The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to be a champion sculler. It all comes under the heading of boatmanship. Some races are won on nothing more than superior boatmanship. -- Brad Alan Lewis
  • Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft. -- Simon Sinek
  • I want you to know I'm an Army brat; I was a captain in the Army and my brother was a jet pilot in the Navy. So I support our troops; I identify with them. But I sure as hell don't identify with the bastards who sent them over there. -- Kris Kristofferson
  • 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
  • For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony. -- Henry Louis Gates
  • The principal reason for the universe's poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin at speeds thousands of times faster than a jet plane. But given their distance, you'd need the patience of Job to notice much change in their appearance or position. -- Seth Shostak
  • Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war. -- Noam Chomsky
  • A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in on a designated New York skyscraper if launched from as far away as Boston. -- Richard Dawkins
  • We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II. -- Ian Anderson
  • My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner. -- Ben Aaronovitch
  • When you're in a fighter jet and there's 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, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world. -- Yves Rossy
  • Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible. -- Shia LaBeouf
  • What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes. -- Olympia Snowe
  • Excellence is the jet engine, that pushes you faster and higher to success. -- Mark F. LaMoure
  • My heart has jet lag. -- Karen Marie Moning
  • I'm flying everywhere in my private jet. -- Keith Morris
  • I see colors like you hear jet planes. -- Dave Eggers
  • His eyes were jet-colored circles of perpetual disapproval. -- Gail Carriger
  • From a cell to a jet call it Con-Air -- Lil Wayne
  • I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag. -- William Gurstelle
  • The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow. -- Monica Dickens
  • Arnie, you're going to have to buy a bigger jet. -- Fuzzy Zoeller
  • I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people. -- Jim Parsons
  • Rocket engines generally are simpler than jet engines, not more complicated. -- Henry Spencer
  • Yes. Because every family needs a laser for thier family jet. -- Eoin Colfer
  • The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down. -- Chuck Yeager
  • The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems. -- Michael Fish
  • Eating a lot on the plane is not good for jet lag. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
  • They don't want you to jet ski, they don't want you to smile. -- DJ Khaled
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  • I'm leaving on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again -- John Denver
  • I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer. -- David Platt
  • So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet â?? big deal. -- Will Self
  • There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet. -- Elon Musk
  • The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine. -- John Benfield
  • How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black. -- Ben Shahn
  • All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines. -- Amar Bose
  • Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth, -- Steve Jurvetson
  • My clothes are for the international jet set. They are very much for the red carpet. -- Giambattista Valli
  • She thinks that he looks like Elvis, when he runs his fingers through that jet black hair. -- Joe Diffie
  • I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set. -- Vanessa Paradis
  • Sometimes Harvey Weinstein will let me use the Miramax jet if I'm opening a supermarket for him. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
  • I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red Sea Racin' Saddam Hussein on Kawasaki jet ski's -- Ras Kass
  • Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class? -- Eddie Izzard
  • I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late. -- Morgan Freeman
  • Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, just weird sleeping hours. -- Ben Mendelsohn
  • I don't own a jet, but I rent jets in my spare time. That's the quickest and most comfortable. -- Justin Bieber
  • The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation. -- George Brett
  • When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture. -- Emilio Pucci
  • Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface. -- Bradley Chicho
  • If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. -- Charles Mengel Allen
  • The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs. -- Terry Hayes
  • I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward. -- Joseph Monninger
  • I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel. -- Spalding Gray
  • We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done. -- Joe Sutter
  • But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world. -- Adam Hart-Davis
  • I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally. -- Allen Stanford
  • 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
  • Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost. -- Bruce Paltrow
  • 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
  • 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
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