Top 100 Pilots Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Pilots Quotes from famous people such as L. E. Modesitt, Jr., James Burrows, Adan Canto, Virginia Postrel, James May, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or

I’ve often said that there’s no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Most of the pilots I choose do not have high-concept ideas, so for me it’s not the idea as much as the execution of the idea, and if the idea, like you take a bar in Boston, that’s not a high-concept idea. But if it’s executed well, it makes a great show.
James Burrows
In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.
Adan Canto
Traditional PCs face competition from specialty products like Palm Pilots and from the servers that provide the nodes in computer networks. Microsoft’s Windows CE hasn’t done too well in the specialty-device market, and its Windows NT faces strong competition for server customers.
Virginia Postrel
Boilersuits are used by everybody from pilots in the army to racing drivers to people who clean your drains. The one piece overall is what all males secretly desire.
James May
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn’t want to.
Hanoi Hannah
When I read both pilots for ‘Breaking Bad’ and the ‘Michael J. Fox Show,’ I turned to my husband in real life, and I’m like, ‘That is an amazing script.’
Betsy Brandt
When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them – part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
Rick Perlstein
We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of ‘space machines.’ And we all wanted to be first.
Gherman Titov
I’ve done, like, eight pilots, and every time, everyone thinks it’s going to go for 10 years.
David Denman
I’ve done so many pilots I thought were good that didn’t work, and so many that I thought were bad that did work.
Christina Pickles
Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.
Mike Ferguson
It’s not like I decided to continue the Stone Temple Pilots.
Jeff Gutt
As astronauts know better than anyone else, risks, incidents, and mishaps are inevitable in the development of any high-performance vehicle. The emergence of supersonic flight during the 1940s and of the Century Series of fighters in the 1950s came with the loss of several test pilots. Still, it was a glorious time.
Leroy Chiao
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.
David Ogden Stiers
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Charles de Saint-Évremond
A short, glorious life in service of a greater good – say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said ‘Never have so many owed so much to so few,’ – that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.
Tim O’Reilly
Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital – pilots fly them, but aren’t in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects – the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular – killing people, for example.
John Battelle
I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did ‘Reno 911!’ for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the ‘Star Trek’ thing.
Scott Aukerman
Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots – who provide specialized local navigation – when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.
Rose George
Fighter pilots and special operations forces guys have the same DNA.
Brandon Webb
I’ve been trying my whole life to get to this point, and it’s finally here. It’s an amazing record, and it happens to be with Stone Temple Pilots. I mean, what could be better than that?
Jeff Gutt
Before ‘Scandal,’ I was actually cast in two other pilots. Both went to series, but I was fired and recast. For both, it was because they wanted me to sound more ‘girlfriend,’ more like ‘hood,’ more ‘urban.’
Kerry Washington
I paid my way through school doing set construction for film and television. I’m a member of Local 44. I was a construction coordinator on ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ for 4 1/2 years and ran their whole construction program. I did two other pilots as a coordinator for Aaron Spelling.
Michael Cudlitz
I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting ‘Awakening’.
Lucy Griffiths
When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn’t understand that world. So when ‘Weeds’ took off, I was so happy. Especially as I was just a guest star in the pilot. But once it got picked up, they made me a regular cast member.
Kevin Nealon
Pilot season in L.A. is just this blood bath. They make so many pilots, and such a small percentage are picked up. And then if you are picked up, there are so many variables. You have to get a good time slot, and you have to get promoted. And then you have to thrive in that time slot.
Michaela Conlin
Pilots are not the threat.
John Pistole
Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What’s more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it’s important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft.
Simon Sinek
Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.
Philip Greenspun
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.
Brian Austin Green
I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
Gary Cherone
I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three’s Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.
Suzanne Somers
I’ve owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we’ve had long conversations in flight. There’s a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.
Richard Bach
People always ask me, ‘I don’t know how you could watch that, how that affects you,’ and I just tell them, ‘I went through it in real life, so it’s like pilots watching a ‘Top Gun’ movie or cyclists watching a bicycle movie,’ something like that.
Marcus Luttrell
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.
Mary Garden
Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers.
Richard Dawkins
Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs, but only a few manage to survive and mature. It’s the same with TV pilots. There are so many great ideas, but for whatever reason only the lucky ones get picked up.
Keiko Agena
We shoot a lot of pilots that don’t get picked up, and no one ever sees them at all.
Annie Wersching
One year, I did 10 or 11 pilots of TV shows that never went anywhere.
Aisling Bea
In the time since I’ve done ‘Bad Teacher,’ I’ve produced an independent movie and directed two pilots. So I love to do all different types of things.
Jake Kasdan
I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.
Donal Logue
The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
J. August Richards
In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It’s really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.
Dennis Quaid
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.
Eve Best
I did a couple of pilots that didn’t sell, a few movies, and one year of nightclub work, which I hated. Then I did the pilot of ‘The Brady Bunch’ and never had to do another nightclub.
Ann B. Davis
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss’ character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.
Jonathan Nolan
You read so many scripts, especially pilots, that really feel like marbles in your mouth when you go to read them out loud.
Sarah Goldberg
The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don’t know of any pilots that don’t have a self-interest in staying alive.
Gordon Bethune
Yeah, I’d done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.
Donal Logue