Pilots Quotes · Page 12

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it -…

— Judy Woodruff

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

— Igor Sikorsky

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try…

— Michael Mosley

I've done pilots that don't get picked up. I've done movies where they're on hold for three, four years.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing…

— Francis Gary Power

Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you…

— David McCampbell

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

— Bob Woodward

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance…

— Abraham Lincoln

The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of…

— Frank Zappa

I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds.…

— William Langewiesche

In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium…

— Anonymous

Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his…

— Simon Sinek

Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep…

— Adrienne Rich

So, I can live with people saying, "I didn't like it." But I can't live with people saying, "There just seems to…

— J.H. Wyman

I believe we should sunset our visa laws so that Congress is forced to periodically revise and revisit them to bring them…

— Donald Trump

What children and the landing of a plane most have in common is that they are best made by a line drive…

— Buddy Wakefield

Marriage is like a row boat: it fits two, it doesn't work on auto-pilot and it's very difficult to have sex in.

— Dana Gould

Had "Malcolm in the Middle" been picked up I would not have been available for the pilot of "Breaking Bad." And right…

— Bryan Cranston

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

— Michael O'Leary

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The original plan was that James Wan would direct the pilot [of MacGyver ] but it didn't work out, and then it…

— Lucas Till

Your heart pilots you to a far better life than you could have ever dreamed of. That's how the heart works.

— Sonia Choquette

I've always been intrigued by fighter pilots and strategy because it occurs in like, milliseconds, you know.

— Robert Greene

The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

— John Irving

For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.

— Betsy Brandt

My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued…

— Claude Nicollier

And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other…

— Elrey Borge Jeppesen

“I remembered what Mr. Hall had told me when I first asked him for a lesson: the kids who watch planes are…

— Jennifer Echols

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the…

— Alan Bean

You know, it's scary when you sign onto a pilot of a series because, as much as you want the series to…

— Lisa Edelstein

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means…

— Amy Johnson

The original pilot script [ of "Mary and Jane"], we literally just wrote for fun. It was, let's just do this.

— Harry Elfont

I remember Gale Gordon was in the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], and it was one of my very first professional…

— Julie Benz

As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.

— Donal Logue

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant…

— Charles Lindbergh

In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax…

— Michio Kaku

Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to…

— Mena Suvari

Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I'm obsessed with the…

— Ethan Hawke

When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who…

— Michael Ovitz

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell…

— Mike Ferguson