#pilot

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#astronaut #being #best #better #business

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#being #business #healthiest #know #pilot

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#calm #pilot #sea #ship

I was a complete unknown when I did 'Karate Kid.' I'd just done a pilot for a TV show called 'Call to Glory.' And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would've been happy to be in a dog-food commercial. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#brought #call #called #commercial #complete

The pilot came back and said he had just heard that Kennedy was shot. ↗

— George Smathers

#came #had #heard #just #kennedy

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

#get #go #going #hate #i

I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#decided #eddy #gig #got #i

I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#enough #love #the-pilot-s-wife #love

This is stolen? We're in a stolen jet?" "Not stolen," said Donegan Bane from the co-pilot's seat. "Almost stolen," Grascious corrected. "Semi-stolen," said Donegan. "Quasi stolen," said Grascious. Aurora's frown did not turn upside down. "So is it stolen or not?" Donegan and Grascious hesitated. "Yes,"they both said toghether. ↗

— Derek Landy

#humor #malifecent #pilot #planes #sculduggery

I do admire the new breed of fictional female PI's. The ones who'll survive a throttling, a kidnapping, a punch in the kidneys from a Mafia goon and then wind up the evening making love to a helicopter pilot. In the helicopter. I think I need more time at the gym. ↗

— Cynthia Lawrence

#helicopter-pilots #love