Pilots Quotes - Page 2

• Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Soul, Cupid

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.90

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• A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

  Alton Brown

  Home, Flying, Too Much

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• Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

  Pappy Boyington

  Funny, Humorous, Airplane

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• There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

  Chuck Yeager

  Aviation, Flight, Natural

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread to my country.

  Ilan Ramon

  Beauty, Hope, Country

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• Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Travel, Land, Flying

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

  Plutarch

  Wind, Calm

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.162

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• If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

  Chuck Yeager

  Want, Aviation, Flight

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• And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

  Adolf Galland

  Firsts, Flight, Lost

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• Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.

  Ernie Pyle

  Funny, Alive, World

  Ernie Pyle (2015). “Last Chapter”, p.70, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

  Chuck Yeager

  Differences, Flying, Chinese

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• Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

  Chuck Yeager

  Believe, Airplane, Wings

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• And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.

  Elrey Borge Jeppesen

  Artist, Differences, Aviation

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• What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.' To learn to become a pilot is to learn - not to let oneself fly too slowly. Not to let oneself turn without accelerating. Not to cross the controls. Not to do this, and not to do that. . . . To pilot is negation.

  Henri Mignet

  Flying, Facts, Aviation

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• If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

  Yip Harburg

  Rainbow, Flying, Littles

  Song: Over the Rainbow

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• The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its flow, its laws, and to try and use this knowledge to his own ends.

  Philip Wills

  Reality, Air, Law

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• The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

  Michael Badnarik

  Law, Ideas, Liberty

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• The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

  Cesar Pelli

  Running, Badass, Bad Ass

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• If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.

  Louise Thaden

  Husband, Men, Wife

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.15, University of Arkansas Press

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• In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

  Robert Benchley

  Travel, Children, Airplane

  Pluck and Luck (1925)

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• Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Motivational, Humorous

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• When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.

  Sting

  Inspirational, Soul, Information

  Sting (2009). “Lyrics”, p.202, Dial Press

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• The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.

  Sting

  Philosophy, Heaven, Soul

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• Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Space, Elbows

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.58, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.

  Neil Armstrong

  Unique, Flying, Machines

  "Landing on the Moon: Apollo 11, The Untold Story". www.popularmechanics.com. May 27, 2009.

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