Pilots Quotes - Page 18

• I market for the same reason a pilot keeps his engines running once he is off the ground.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Running, Reason, Engines

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• The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Powerful, Mind, Needs

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• Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easier. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.

  Frank Wead

  Weather, Perfect, Flying

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• You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man's game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.

  Frank Wead

  College, Men, Talking

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• We have to pilot our own dreams - we cannot entrust them to anyone else.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream

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• The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can remember. What pilot has not been in positions where he was in danger and
  where perfect judgment would have advised against going?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Perfect, Blame, Remember

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt

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• I am the best bodyguard, because I'll take a bullet, I'll take a stab wound, I'll take a hit upside the head; I'm like a kamikaze pilot.

  Mr. T

  Bullets, I Am The Best, Bodyguard

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

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• We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Life, Ocean, Passion

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• The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.

  Abdallah II

  Life, Country, Brave

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• I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

  Jake Kasdan

  Girl, Television, Firsts

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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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• 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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• There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.

  Burt Rutan

  Country, Brother, Airplane

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• I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.

  John Slattery

  Jobs, Done, Young

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

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• Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Way, Madly In Love, Fallen

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

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• We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving.

  Marla Sokoloff

  House, Leaving, Seasons

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

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• Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.

  Dreama Walker

  Fall, Hearing, Our Family

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

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• As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky.

  Liu Yang

  Heart, Garden, Blue

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• Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own Lear Jet and owns seafront property. On the other hand, things being what they are today, most of us will settle for a guy who holds down a steady job and isn't carrying an infectious disease.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Women, Simple

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• We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Thinking, Islands

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.33, Criss Jami

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• I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Successful, Men, Thinking

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, uk.askmen.com.

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• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  Vanessa Marano

  Successful, Color, People

  Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 8, 2011.

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• If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

  Gabriel Macht

  Feelings, Series, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

  Martha McSally

  Hawaii, Fighter, Said

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• Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Flying, Victim, Willing

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