Top 1200 Test Pilot Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

The pilot is the wedding, and the series is the relationship.

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.

the heart of religion is not altered states but altered traits of character. For me, then, the test of a substance's religious worth or validity is not what kind of far-out experience it can produce, but is the life improved by its use? That's the test. Now, on that score, if you remove the "religious cocoon," the experiences don't seem to have much in the way of discernible, traceable effects.

Take me to the pilot of your soul.

I'm a commercial pilot before I was an actor.

You may hate the pilot but you don't want the plane to crash.

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

Acting is a general thing; it's not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of time. I don't think acting stands the test of time, but it can capture the mood of the moment, which is in itself very exciting, but it rarely lasts.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

I haven't played men's Test cricket, I've played women's Test cricket.

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Life’s better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.

Making a pilot is never a seamless process. If it is, it usually tanks.

Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

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

I have some eye problems from when I was a pilot.

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

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

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

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, 'Taste!' and everyone would go running towards it, and then taste, and then brutally deconstruct the dish.

As a child, I always wanted to be a race car pilot.

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.

Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.

My mom was a pilot, and my dad wrestled polar bears.

I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.

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

I actually worked on the pilot of 'The Chase' and wrote the questions on it.

In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn't or couldn't pass the literacy test.

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

People often ask whether Obama passes the 'kishka test:' whether he likes Israel special, not in the same way he likes Taiwan or South Korea? Does he? I think the kishka test was decided when he visited Israel. I think the reaction there was emotional and genuine.

Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im.

I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political.

As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is.

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.

The test of science is not whether you are reasonable—there would not be much of physics if that was the case—the test is whether it works. And the great point about Newton’s theory of gravitation was that it worked, that you could actually say something about the motion of the moon without knowing very much about the constitution of the Earth.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

When I read the pilot of 'The Sopranos,' I wasn't terribly blown away by it.

It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.

Do I want to play Test cricket? Yeah, yeah. I've got a few milestones I'd like to achieve - so I very much want to play Test cricket.

I'm rubbish at maths but I would like to have been a pilot.

Whatever your problem, it is but a test in love. If you meet that test through love, your problem will be solved. If you do not meet that test through love, your problem will continue until you do! Your problem is your initiation in love.

I'd love to play a commercial pilot on screen.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

I did a CNN pilot but they decided I wasn't Anthony Bourdain.