Pilots Quotes - Page 4

• It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.

  Robin Olds

  War, Fighting, Mustache

  Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus, Robin Olds (2010). “Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds”, p.284, Macmillan

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• The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have to keep it clean and good.

  Ilan Ramon

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

  Roald Dahl

  Pain, Healing, Health

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• I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.

  Bob Hoover

  Inspirational, Life, Airplane

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• When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.

  Michael Ovitz

  Jobs, Laid Back, Details

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• Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

  Chesley Sullenberger

  Generations, Found, Profession

  "'Miracle on Hudson' pilot retires" by Marnie Hunter, www.cnn.com. March 3, 2010.

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• My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

  Isabel Lucas

  Dad, Thinking, Bugs

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

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• Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.

  George Carlin

  Airplane, Color, Three

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Fear, Night, Danger

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.42

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• In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

  John Ray

  Men, Sea, Calm

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.4

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• 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

  Doors, Progress, Different

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• The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

  Harry Reasoner

  Airplane, Events, Different

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  And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again, I have seen aggressive action, even from a disadvantageous position, completely rout a powerful Nip formation.

  Charles H. MacDonald

  Powerful, Lists, Action

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• The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.

  Chuck Yeager

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

  George H. W. Bush

  Glory, Worn, Carrier

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

  George Canning

  Storm, Weathered

  George Canning, R. Therry (1836). “The speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: with a memoir of his life”, p.29

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• What do I tell the pilots to do?

  Barbara Olson

  September 11, September

  "Barbara Olson", www.telegraph.co.uk. September 14, 2001.

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• I always wanted to be a pilot.

  Bo Jackson

  Wanted

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• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  Adam Baldwin

  Couple, Said, Tested

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• Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

  Dave Barry

  Tanks, Boards, Tank Tops

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

  Kent McCord

  Wanted

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• You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Storm, Knows

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

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• If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Trust

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• Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

  Alan Shepard

  Challenges, Tests, Flight

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