Pilots Quotes
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.
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More Pilots Quotes
The Pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute.
— Deathwatch mailarchive
The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter Pilots on the Channel coast.
adolf galland— Quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954
I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out, and I counted them all back. Their Pilots were unhurt, cheerful and jubilant, giving thumbs up signs.
brian hanrahan— BBC News, 20 December 2010
If there is a hell, then I'll be in good company with a lot of fighter Pilots who also had to bomb innocents to win the war.
timothy mcveigh— Dead Man Talking, The Observer (April 22, 2001)
With the passing of Alan Shepard, our nation has lost an outstanding patriot, one of its finest Pilots -and I have lost a very close friend.
alan shepard— Senator John Glenn — reported in Nicole Koch (July 24, 1998) "The man who played golf on the Moon", The Daily Telegraph (Australia), p. 035.
You should also say that to the 30 other Pilots who were 200m in front of her and Zhongpin, 1 of them was sucked up as well (Belgium pilot).
godfrey wenness— Godfrey explains that the 2 pilots in the media focus were not the only ones to take a high risk and fly near the obvious storm cloud.
My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears,Two traded Pilots 'twixt the dangerous shoresOf will and judgment.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act II, scene 2, line 63.
My grandmother would shanghai Pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food -- the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip in a Cuban record.
gloria estefan— www.miamiherald.com
My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded Pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act II, scene 2, line 63.
Yet the best Pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
Ben Jonson— Ben Jonson, Discoveries, Illiteratus Princeps.
What do I tell the Pilots to do?
— CNN commentator Barbara Olson, passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, cell phone call to her husband, Solicitor General Theodore Olson.[ ]
I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out, and I counted them all back. Their Pilots were unhurt, tearful and jubilant, giving thumbs up signs.
brian hanrahan— BBC News, 1 May 1982.
— Reporting from on board HMS Hermes aircraft carrier on an air raid on Goose Green.
It has been acquired by myriad special police groups, but in the military it is used by Belgian Pilots, Cyprus special forces, Mexico, Nepal and Spain. This is quite a feat as it has always been a difficult task to launch a new calibre on the military market, especially for handguns.
— Paolo Valpolini (Armada International)
For I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.
— Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1835, published 1842), 117.
