Jumbo Jet Quotes

#1. 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

#2. We hold firm our phones,
In case we capture that shot,
Of a jumbo jet falling,
Or that child time forgot.

P.J. Bayliss

#3. When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.

Benjamin Mkapa

#4. 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

#5. Out of thin air: a big bang, followed by falling stars. A universal beginning, a miniature echo of the birth of time ... the jumbo jet Bostan, Flight AI-420, blew apart without any warning, high above

Salman Rushdie

#6. In the words of Lynne McTaggart: Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.

Dan Brown

#7. He remembers his fathers last words: Stay out of churches, son. All they got a key to is the shit house. And swear to me you'll never wear a lawman's badge.

William S. Burroughs

#8. Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

Jeff Foxworthy

#9. I want to behave more like a boy ... I want to be the strong one.

Cara Delevingne

#10. When traversing the vast sea of loneliness, Oneness is the only true safe harbor.

Gary Hopkins

#11. Dreams often come one size too big so that we can grow into them.

John C. Maxwell

#12. Sir Isaac Newton gave the extraterrestrials their biggest shot in the arm when he embraced the infinite universe as the basis for his hugely influential system of physics. Even so, the aliens of the early modern period remained creatures of philosophy rather than science.

Matthew Stewart

#13. That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

Fernando Flores

#14. She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card.

Joan Didion

#15. We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#16. Men ... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

Camille Flammarion

#17. The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.

Jon Lovitz

#18. Top performers understand their field at a higher level than average performers do, and thus have a superior structure for remembering information about it.

Geoff Colvin

#19. "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Samuel Johnson