Pilots Quotes - Page 28

• Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Jesus, People, Twenties

  Carl Hiaasen (2010). “Strip Tease”, p.470, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Truth, Thinking

  Time Enough for Love (p. 264)

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• 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

  Jobs, Way, Curious

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

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• In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.

  Neil H. McElroy

  Travel, Men, Airports

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• It would be nice to be a professional pilot. I'm an amateur pilot at the moment. I've got a lot of friends in the RAF and I don't think I've ever met a group of people who love their job as much as they do.

  Martin Shaw

  Jobs, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.

  Bevo Howard

  Pockets, Hips, Aviation

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• Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Wisdom, Airplane, Player

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• Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.

  Stephen Coonts

  Mistake, Aviation, Flight

  Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America”, p.54, Open Road Media

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• But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mean, People, Aviation

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Practice, Preparation

  "Teamwork: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the NUM as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.

  Jimmy Reid

  Fighting, Years, Choices

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• Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

  Barry Goldwater

  Men, Flying, Spirit

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1980). “With No Apologies”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad weather.

  Peter de Savary

  Weather, Entrepreneur, Ifs

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• By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.

  Spencer Bachus

  Uncles, Memories, War

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• To make a long story short, I auditioned for the role of Piper because I read the pilots every year and this show was head-and-shoulders above any pilot I've read in awhile. It was amazing. So, I read for Piper and I knew that I wasn't really right for it, but I loved it so much that I wanted to read for it.

  Laura Prepon

  Years, Long, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Clouds, Sea

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. I), 1939.

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• No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.

  Charlie Munger

  Wise, Use, Matter

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• I think a pilot is a pilot, no matter who's judging it, but I will say I am thinking a lot about how to tell stories for the series in a streaming environment where you can anticipate a huge portion of the audience will consume an entire season in the course of a day, two days or a week.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Thinking, Two, Judging

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• And since the mind is of a man one part,
  Which in one fixed place remains, like ears,
  And eyes, and every sense which pilots life;
  And just as hand, or eye, or nose, apart,
  Severed from us, can neither feel nor be,
  But in the least of time is left to rot,
  Thus mind alone can never be, without
  The body and the man himself, which seems,
  As 'twere the vessel of the same- or aught
  Whate'er thou'lt feign as yet more closely joined:
  Since body cleaves to mind by surest bonds.

  Lucretius

  Eye, Men, Hands

  Lucretius, “Book III - Part 03 - The Soul Is Mortal”

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• The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.

  C. Maxwell Stanley

  Airplane, World, Aviation

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• It's a combination, I think they want to know - it's for every show, which is I think networks want to know that you have a vision for where the show could go to make sure that it really is a show, that it's not just a one-off forty minute pilot, that it's an actual series.

  Bryan Burk

  Thinking, Vision, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Brother, Army, Support

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• Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words "ANGLO SAXON" on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Weather, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.128

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• I just adored Peter Medak, the director. He's such a character, but he was so much fun. Some directors come in and they truly get angry about things.Peter was still in a fantastic mood. He's a delightful person. He threw a big party at the end of the pilot, which was so sweet. And his wife is an opera singer. He's just a very warm, crazy beautiful individual.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Beautiful, Sweet, Fun

  Source: collider.com

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• What children
  and the landing of a plane
  most have in common
  is that they are best made
  by a line drive of pilot lights guided
  through a single tambourine
  across the day we met
  in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Children, Light, Hands

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