Top 310 Pilots Quotes & Sayings

Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.

Me and Twenty One Pilots would be wonderful.

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.

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

Pilots are not the threat.

It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian Air Force. The talented few amongst the Air Force pilots are made test pilots. Test pilots are best suited to look at the space programme as they are trained to expect the unexpected.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

I've actually done three pilots for Disney. I met with the network when I was 16 years old and had just started acting. I would fly to Los Angeles to film pilots, then fly back to Dallas, where I grew up.

I've had nine failed pilots. I've been doing TV for a long time.

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

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

I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol.

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

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

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

There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death. The controls are jammed or something really important has fallen off the plane, and these guys are talking like magpies; their lives are flashing past their eyes, and they're flailing around in the cockpit. It just doesn't happen. You don't have time to talk. You're too damn busy trying to get out of the problem you're in to talk or ricochet around the cockpit. Or think about what happened the night after your senior prom.

"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.

One year, I did 10 or 11 pilots of TV shows that never went anywhere.

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

This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.

If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

I think aerobatic pilots make the best pilots because you know, you're just so confident in an aeroplane. If you're gonna get into trouble, I'd rather be with someone that's a skilled aerobatic pilot.

There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks.

There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series.

If I ever see those pilots who dropped the bombs on me - or any American pilots - I would say to them, 'The war is over. The past is past.' I would ask those pilots what can they do to bring us all together.

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

There is no such thing as a natural born pilot. Whatever my aptitudes or talents, becoming a proficient pilot was hard work, really a lifetime's learning experience. For the best pilots, flying is an obsession, the one thing in life they must do continually. The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best. Experience is everything. The eagerness to learn how and why every piece of equipment works is everything. And luck is everything, too.

There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and muscles frequently originate movements which suggest flight; and then there are pilots who regardless of their airborne time remain earth-loving bipeds forever. When these latter unfortunates, because of one urge or another, actually make an ascension, they neither anticipate nor relish the event and they drive their machines with the same graceless labor they inflict upon the family vehicle.

I've always been intrigued by fighter pilots and strategy because it occurs in like, milliseconds, you know.

What do I tell the pilots to do?

Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

Fighter pilots and special operations forces guys have the same DNA.

It's not like I decided to continue the Stone Temple Pilots.

I think women make better pilots.

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

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

My experience enables me to select the very best pilots in the market.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots.

Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?

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

People with conservative temperaments don't become fighter pilots or presidential candidates - they're all that way to some extent.

Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.

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

Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

Pilots are tricky because there are so many things you have to accomplish.

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

We saw the integration of the female pilots in the Navy, in combat roles, and the resistance there in the beginning.

Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots suffer more burnout than real-world pilots, as they attempt to live in two worlds - home and battlefield - simultaneously. We all become overwhelmed until we learn to distinguish between data flows (like Twitter) that can only be dipped into, and data storage (like books and emails) that can be fully consumed.

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

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

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

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.

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

I've written pilots. I wrote a movie.

We shoot a lot of pilots that don't get picked up, and no one ever sees them at all.