Pilots Quotes - Page 17

• ('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.

  Rich Sommer

  Zero, Men, Mad

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• Maybe because I'm from New Jersey, I just have this kind of plain language hangup. But I would make very clear - I would not talk to Vladimir Putin. In fact, I would talk to Vladimir Putin a lot. But I'd say to him, "Listen, Mr. President, there's a no-fly zone in Syria; you fly in, it applies to you." And yes, we would shoot down the planes of Russian pilots if in fact they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling that the president we have in the Oval Office is right now.

  Chris Christie

  Stupid, Thinking, Plain Language

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Eye, Blood

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• We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air, and particularly happy that we had not been hit ourselves. Of course, I tell myself in quiet moments today: 'You've killed. In order to protect others and not be killed yourself.' But in the end: for what? The Third Reich trained 30,000 pilots. Ten thousand survived the war. One-third. This is the highest loss rate along with the U-boat sailors.

  Gunther Rall

  War, Loss, Thinking

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• Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Practice, Sound, Ships

  Dell' Anatomia Vol. II, Ch. 29

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• While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.

  Gordon Cooper

  Flying, Germany, Ufo

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• I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.

  Niki Lauda

  People, Vienna, Cost

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

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• He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Running, Baby

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 6 (1971)

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• There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots.

  Louise Thaden

  Women, Aversion, Prejudice

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.99, University of Arkansas Press

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• I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.

  Linda Finch

  Women, Should Have, Flying

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• We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service.

  Cornelia Fort

  Women, Another Chance, Aviation

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• To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration-she cannot be a simple, natural personality.

  Louise Thaden

  Children, Women, Confused

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.92, University of Arkansas Press

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• I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last. . . . My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be.

  Nicole Malachowski

  Jobs, Women, Air

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• She's decisive, she's aggressive, she's proven she's capable with high-performance jets. We look for people with the capability to think on their feet and to be able to lead a team of people. We look for the best pilots out there, and if they happen to be women, great, but we're just looking for the best.

  David Leestma

  Team, Thinking, Feet

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• I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

  Trevor Baylis

  Ideas, Energy, Gadgets

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• Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Airplane, Men, Feet

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• Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.

  Zoroaster

  Spiritual, Heaven, Deeds

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• I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.

  Roger Ebert

  Games, Chess Game, Littles

  "Mastermind" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. August 22, 1997.

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• I get really sad when people say, 'I'm no good. I haven't been cast in a pilot.' It doesn't mean you're not good; it just means someone hasn't seen you yet. It doesn't mean that in real life you're not the greatest actor.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Real, Mean, People

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

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• Gore said foreigners are not worried about 'what the terrorist networks are going to do, but about what we're going to do.' Good. They should be worried. They hate us? We hate them. Americans don't want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die. There's nothing like horrendous physical pain to quell anger. Japanese Kamikazes pilots hated us once, too. A couple of well-aimed nuclear weapons got their attention. Now they are gentle little lambs.

  Ann Coulter

  Couple, Pain, Hate

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.269, Crown Forum

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• A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sky, Flying, Single Life

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• Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .

  Charles Lindbergh

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I close my eyes, however, I can again feel the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, the rudder bar beneath my feet. I can sense the freedom and the cleanliness and all the things which a pilot knows.

  Saburo Sakai

  Eye, Swimming, Hands

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• The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.

  Ross Macpherson Smith

  Men, Air, Machines

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• Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.

  Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra

  Sky, Flying, Soul

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