Pilots Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Becoming, Helicopters, Percent

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• There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Rip, Humorous

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• Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.

  Max Greenfield

  Character, Attention, Hook

  "Talking Schmidt: Why We're Rooting for New Girl's Max Greenfield at the Emmy's". Interview with Bruce Handy an Juli Weiner, www.vanityfair.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.

  Andre Braugher

  Years, Class, People

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.

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• A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

  Jenson Button

  Sports, Morning, Thinking

  "Button your lip" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2005.

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• I paid my way through school doing set construction for film and television. I'm a member of Local 44. I was a construction coordinator on 'Beverly Hills 90210' for 4 1/2 years and ran their whole construction program. I did two other pilots as a coordinator for Aaron Spelling.

  Michael Cudlitz

  School, Years, Two

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

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• I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

  Roman Coppola

  Witty, Airports, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Tim DeKay

  Hbo, Odds, Usa

  "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

  Viola Davis

  Queens, Numbers, Long

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• The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot.

  Ari Graynor

  Stupid, I Realized, Tempting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

  Adolf Galland

  War, Airplane, World

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• After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  New Orleans, House, Hurricanes

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• I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Air, Order, Years

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• You know, it's scary when you sign onto a pilot of a series because, as much as you want the series to go, you also want it to be a character that you'd be interested in playing for a long time.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Character, Long, Scary

  "Lisa Edelstein Talks House". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. May 12, 2008.

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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 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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• 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 started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom.

  Sharon Horgan

  Writing, People, Competition

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• But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Spring, Fall, Focus

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

  Martha McSally

  Firsts, Fighter, Decided

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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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