Pilots Quotes · Page 6

Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.

— Albert Scott Crossfield

It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.

— David Blatt

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

— Anna Torv

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

— Adolf Galland

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

— Adolf Galland

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

— Marilyn Ferguson

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked…

— Tim DeKay

Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?

— Tucker Max

Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry.

— Sri Chinmoy

Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God…

— Carl Hiaasen

I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl…

— Russell Simmons

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

— Ernie Pyle

I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my…

— Michael Stipe

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

— William Shakespeare

I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's…

— Mike Oldfield

I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.

— Kazimir Malevich

Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more…

— Mark Twain

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would…

— Charles Lindbergh

Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments,…

— Abraham Lincoln

You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more…

— Jake Kasdan

I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had…

— James Fenton

This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors;…

— Derek Sivers

In between shooting for Awake, I was attempting to have my own pilot season. The audition for Anger Management actually came during…

— Daniela Bobadilla

This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same…

— Dave Barry

There is no such thing as a natural born pilot. Whatever my aptitudes or talents, becoming a proficient pilot was hard work,…

— Chuck Yeager

There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature…

— Ernest K. Gann

There are lots of grounds for hope in Israeli society. We are seeing Israelis getting fed up with war, looking for solutions.…

— Uri Avnery

Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II.…

— Len Morgan

O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back…

— Dante Alighieri

After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch…

— Charles Lindbergh

I really loved the story. I originally read for Walt Longmire. He is obviously a very dynamic, strong, manly man that almost…

— Bailey Chase

I'd done a pilot [of Townies] with Caroline Rhea [Pride & Joy] that didn't go anywhere.

— Eric McCormack

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

— Nevil Shute

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

— Charles Lindbergh

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

— Calvin Coolidge

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

— Anonymous

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

— Douglas Bader

God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.

— Rob Brezsny

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

— Terence McKenna