Pilots Quotes

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali

Boxing, Astronaut, Jet

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus

Reputation, Greater, Storms

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
Neil Armstrong

Joy, Special, Walking

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Epicurus

Reputation, Storms, Gain

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
Al McGuire

Life, Why, Mystery

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.
Chuck Yeager

Learn, Fighter, Anybody

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.
David Ogden Stiers

Movies, Hate, Put

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

Best, Business, Challenge

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.
Dave Chappelle

Done, Television, Ridiculous

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.
Nathan Fillion

Long, Nothing, Control

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
Franz Liszt

Put, Possible, Himself

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.
Ray Romano

Successful, Focus, Nothing

So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.
Martin Feldstein

Someone, Judgement, Sound

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
Thomas More

Great, Run, Known

I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.
Brian Austin Green

History, Movies, Few

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

Early, Tried, Force

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

Career, Done, Before

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.
Hugh Shelton

Air, Safe, Flying

But the other thing 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's why we serve.
Hugh Shelton

Why, Individual, Serve

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
Willard Scott

Life, Lost, United

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
Gary Cherone

History, Down, Made

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.
Izabella Scorupco

Famous, Biggest, Flight

As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.
Randy West

Enough, Learned, Show

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.
Tim Holden

Struggle, America, Brave

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
Adolf Galland

Time, Enemy, Impossible

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

Lost, Five, Flights

Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.
Donal Logue

Done, Show, While

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.
Donal Logue

Movies, Here, Bits

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

Long, Done, Point

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.
Nuno Bettencourt

Love, Good, Live

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