Quotes About Pilot

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

Ce n'était pas un homme ni un pilote comme les autres. Il portait sur lui le reflet des éléments, de l'espace. Il semblait oint par l'huile et poudré par le pollen du monde.

Surely, you must be joking," Aech said. "No, I am not joking. And don't call me Shirley.

It is the professional pilot's bounden duty to know the idiosyncrasies of each type (of airplane), for he must spend a large proportion of his active career exploiting its qualities and compensating for its faults. These secrets cannot be discovered in a ground school.

I remember, when we started 'Leverage,' we were all in Chicago, and I read the script for the pilot and thought, 'Boy, this is just a real interesting place to begin a character.' I had to figure out how to go about playing someone who had hit rock bottom.

Without mincing words or really embellishing anything... I consider Mike Alsbury the renaissance man. He could do it all. He was an engineer. He was a pilot. He worked well with others. He had a great sense of humor. I never heard him raise his voice or lose his cool.

Who hasn't imagined themselves cruising around in an X-wing?

I called my pilot 2 weeks before I flew and asked him, "I don't want to get sick, what should I eat?" He said, "Peanut Butter." I said, "If I eat peanut butter then I won't get sick?" He said," no, but it tastes the same comin' up as it does goin' down.

I am afraid of aeroplanes. I've been able to avoid flying for some time, but I suppose, if I had to, I would. Perhaps it's a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. At one time, I had a pilot's licence and 160 hours of solo time on single-engine light aircraft. Unfortunately, all that seemed to do was make me mistrust large aeroplanes.

We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving.

It's always interesting for me to watch the pilot of an established show because you see how the writers and actors weren't really sure what the show was and what the dynamics were. If you look at the pilot for 'Seinfeld,' for example, it's practically unrecognizable.

Rules are made to be broken, principles are not. The best fighter pilot can change the rules of engagement, but he dare not violate the principles of gravity!

We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film.

We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?

As an actor, and as you get to a certain level... and it's pilot season and you read the trades, you could have a nervous breakdown. 'So-and-so's signed for a pilot. Why aren't I?'

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.

This is at the heart of the professional pilot's eternal conflict," writes Wilkinson in a comment to the November Oscar case. "Into one ear the airlines lecture, "Never break regulations. Never take a chance. Never ignore written procedures. Never compromise safety." Yet in the other they whisper, "Don't cost us time. Don't waste our money. Get your passengers to their destination—don't find reasons why you can't.

I looked forwards to the flight deck. The door was open and I could see the pilot and co-pilot toasting each other with glasses of vodka. In the context of where we were going, this felt completely normal.

the Jaguar's pilot was ordered to execute "Shiva's Wrath." "Do you know what that means?" Raj-Singh

I still think it's one of the war's great ironies that our replacement crew ended up arriving in a privately owned civilian vehicle. Spacecraft Three, the ship originally designed for prewar orbital tourism. The pilot, with his cowboy hat and big, confident Yankee grin. [He tries his best Texas accent.] "Anyone order takeout?" [He laughs, then winces and self-medicates again.]

As a former pilot in World War I, Walter had always preferred flying as a means of travel, rather than going by sea. Whenever he was in the Dakota, flying over to Northern Ireland, he always asked for the front seat, joking that if it crashed then he wanted to die first.

Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.