Pilots Quotes - Page 5

Take me to the pilot of your soul.

Elton John

Expression, Soul, Take Me

Song: Take Me To The Pilot Elton John Bernie Taupin

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Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

Alan Shepard

Challenges, Tests, Flight

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You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Alan Shepard

World, Tests, Knows

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Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

Alan Shepard

Believe, Fields, Fame

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To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

Mr. T

Dedicated, Bodyguard

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I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

Nina Blackwood

Spinal Tap

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Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Time, Twilight, Farewell

'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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Most helmsmen would’ve been satisfied with a pilot’s wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a dubstep soundboard, and motion-control sensors from a Nintendo Wii. He could turn the ship by pulling on the throttle, fire weapons by sampling an album, or raise sails by shaking his Wii controllers really fast. Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD.

Rick Riordan

Fire, Wii, Nintendo

"The Mark of Athena". Book by Rick Riordan, October 2, 2012.

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The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute.

Nils Bohlin

Science, Aerospace, People

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He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

Spalding Gray

Travel, Believe, Reincarnation

Spalding Gray (1992). “Monster in a Box”, Vintage

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This is stolen? We're in a stolen jet?" "Not stolen," said Donegan Bane from the co-pilot's seat. "Almost stolen," Grascious corrected. "Semi-stolen," said Donegan. "Quasi stolen," said Grascious. Aurora's frown did not turn upside down. "So is it stolen or not?" Donegan and Grascious hesitated. "Yes,"they both said toghether.

Derek Landy

Aurora, Upside Down, Stolen

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May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

Winston Churchill

Block, War, Cities

Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are here lawfully. I, as chair of this commission, would not be a party to any system that I felt was an unpardonable intrusion into the private lives of people. If I felt that what we are recommending would be such an intrusion I can assure you that recommendation would never have seen the light of day, not even as a pilot program.

Barbara Jordan

Party, Rights, Light

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In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Eye, Men

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.

Dan Rather

Trust, Sea, Crafts

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Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

Mike Ferguson

Morse Code, Beacons, Know How

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When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

Robert M. Gates

Air, Directors, Drones

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I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons

Jeremy Jordan

Years, Broadway Theatre, Goal

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When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.

Josh Gad

Creative, Three, Actors

"Josh Gad and Jason Winer Talk 1600 PENN, Creating the White House Family Comedy, Improvisation During Filming and Viewers’ Perception of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 8, 2013.

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On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the co-pilot hit him with a small ax. Good to see our airlines are being kept secure by the latest in 12th century technology.

Dennis Miller

Technology, Thursday, Way

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The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.

William H. Macy

Running, Character, Eye

Source: www.esquire.com

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Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.

Burt Rutan

Airplane, Intelligent, Design

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The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

Michael Patrick King

Months, Six, Tough

"Showrunners 2012: '2 Broke Girls'' Michael Patrick King". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 3, 2012.

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It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.

Eric Ladin

Drama, Home, Painful Death

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I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing, and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.

Scott Aukerman

Stars, Writing, Six

"Comedy Bang Bang's Scott Aukerman talks about turning his podcast into a strange, funny TV show". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2012.

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