Pilots Quotes - Page 16

• I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

  Suzanne Somers

  Careers, Three, Done

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.

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• I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Movie, Writing, People

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• Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Science, Discovery, Sea

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• I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

  Tatyana Ali

  Stars, Rapper, Ideas

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• Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Wisdom, Meditation, Soul

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• Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

  Alan Bean

  Flying, Needs, Answers

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• ... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

  Ben Jonson

  Anchors, Sea, Needs

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3197, Delphi Classics

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• I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a year or two these days if one wants to develop a series - which is what writing a pilot means. I've also been approached about writing episodes for sitcoms, but in order to do that one actually has to watch sitcoms. . . . Life's too short for television, and I don't what it on my actual gravestone, HE STARED AT A BOX FOR 10,000 HOURS.

  David Ives

  Moving, Writing, Mean

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• The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role.

  Robert Mueller

  Roles, Lines, Sept 11

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• The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Light, Flames, Warm

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• The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.

  Adolf Galland

  Numbers, Victory, Reason Why

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• The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.

  Adolf Galland

  War, Pyramids, World

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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• This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Past, Opportunity, Giving

  Reginald Turnill, Buzz Aldrin (2007). “The Moonlandings: An Eyewitness Account”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

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• Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a machine himself in the links of these networks, but is also a man sitting in (what Collins is later to call) a 'mini-cathedral.' a man somewhat more than a pilot, somewhat more than a superpilot, is in fact a veritable high priest of the forces of society and scientific history concentrated in that mini cathedral, a general of the church of the forces of technology.

  Norman Mailer

  Technology, Men, Church

  "A Fire on the Moon".

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• It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

  Scott Weiland

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• What if airplane pilots said, 'my first three years were a wreck'? We worry about the safety of people at the hands of these other professions. Why don't we worry about children being at the hands of an adult, even a well-meaning adult, who doesn't know what he or she is doing?

  Deborah

  Children, Airplane, Hands

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• The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Broken, Television, Waste

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

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• In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place that this wherefrom it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern; others, the mind and still others, the pilot of the world. Trismegistus calls it a "visible God"; Sophocles' Electra, "that which gazes upon all things." And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Beautiful, Stars, Mind

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• The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Adventure, Wind, Sky

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• But, the other thing is, is that I feel very confident in the individual pilots. They are tremendous individuals. They are individuals that have sworn to protect and defend our very citizens. That is why we served...

  Hugh Shelton

  Citizens, Individual, Protect

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.

  Jim Bailey

  Running, Determination, Kings

  Jim Bailey (2013). “The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story”, p.37, A&C Black

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• The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Fighting, Risk, Enemy

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• At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.

  George Santayana

  May, Philosopher, Boat

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Where's the hope that can abate
  The grief of hearts thus desolate
  That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage,
  And mitigate the gloom of Age?
  Religion bids the tempest cease,
  And, leads her to a port of peace;
  And on, the lonely pilot steers
  Through the lapse of future years.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Hope, Lonely, Grief

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.103

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• I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Jobs, Nice, Want

  "Felix Baumgartner 'recuperating' after surviving jump from the edge of space" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.

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