Pilots Quotes

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself

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

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

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

What do I tell the pilots to do?

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

Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.

There are a lot of good shows that don't get picked up. Like that Ben Stiller pilot, Heat Vision And Jack? That would have been a great show, but somehow it slipped by.

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.

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.

We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service.

I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.

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

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.

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

Started off local but thanks to all the haters, I know G4 pilots on a first name basis.

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

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.

To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.

Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.

I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting Awakening.

I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

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

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

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

During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.

I'd most likely be a helicopter pilot, or I'd own a really cool surf hotel somewhere on a beach.

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

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.

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

Your heart pilots you to a far better life than you could have ever dreamed of. That's how the heart works.

When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.

Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.

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.

The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.