Aviator Quotes:

Round, cat-eye frames, wayfarers, and aviators are my go-tos.

- Georgia May Jagger

source: "Georgia May Jagger and Jerry Hall Dish on Classic Sunglasses and the Power of Red Lipstick". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. May 8, 2013.

topic: Cat, Eye, Aviator, Cat Eye

[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I've been friends with for many years.

- Brent Spiner

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Years, Aviator

I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.

- Bob Hoover

topic: Airplane, Cutting, Opportunity, Former Friends, So Lucky

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

topic: Impossible, Aviation, Achieve, Military Aviation, Airplanes And Flying

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

- Amelia Earhart

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage, Famous Women, Overcoming Fear

The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Perfect, Where You Are, Aviator

And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.

- Elrey Borge Jeppesen

topic: Artist, Differences, Pilots, Great Aviation, Aviator

Aviators live by hours, not by days.

- T. H. White

topic: Aviation, Hours, Live By, Aviator

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Spiritual, Moving Forward, Destiny, Dust Yourself Off, Stumbling

It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one's friends; but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for just the right moment to go into the air.

- Glenn Curtiss

source: Glenn H. Curtiss (1912). “The Curtiss Aviation Book”

topic: Air, Waiting, Desire, Aviator

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

- Charles Lindbergh

source: Charles Lindbergh, “Untitled”

topic: Beauty, Adventure, Beauty Of Life, Open Fields, Plugs

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.

- Plautus

topic: Wings, Flying, Aviation, Wings To Fly, Pilots And Flying

This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's how well you know and understand your aircraft and your own limitations. Luck is the sum total of your of abilities as an aviator. If you think your luck is running low, you'd better get busy & make some more. Work harder, pay more attention. Do better preflights.

- Stephen Coonts

source: "The Intruders". Book by Stephen Coonts, 1994.

topic: Running, Hard Work, Thinking, Aviator

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

- Walter Cunningham

topic: Dream, Airplane, Men, Military Aviation, Aviator

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

topic: Funny, Witty, Fear, Learn To Fly, Galaxy

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

- Amelia Earhart

source: "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

topic: Inspirational, Decision, Acting, Make The Right Choice, Inspiration And Life

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

- Mark Twain

topic: Angel, Clouds, Air, Pilots And Flying, Clouds And Stars

I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Art, Wine, Years, Great Aviation, Aviator

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Happiness, Creativity, Zest, Joy Happiness, Joy Within

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Think Positively, Positive Thinking In Life

Success breeds confidence.

- Beryl Markham

source: Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

topic: Strong Women, Strong, Trainers, Aviator

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Airplane, Science, Technology, Parrots, Airplanes And Flying

...decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying....

- Amelia Earhart

source: "Lost Star : The Search for Amelia Earhart". Book by Randall Brink, 1995.

topic: Positivity, Greatness, Goal, Stop Worrying, Aviator

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

source: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2012). “Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986”, p.43, Pantheon

topic: Women, Islands, Sea, Aviator

Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

- William T. Piper

topic: Baby, Dog, Morning, Every Second, Learn To Fly

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

- John Glenn

topic: Space, Mind, Rockets, Senators, Supplies

The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground team.

- Keith B. McCutcheon

topic: Integrity, Team, Marine, Jealously, Aviator

The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Adventure, Sky, Skills, Drafting, Expanse

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Soulmate Love

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Jobs, Ocean, People, Maritime, Innovative Leadership

Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills.

- Pancho Barnes

topic: Sex, Flying, Bills, Maniacs, Aviator

Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

- Jonathan Winters

topic: Kids, Airplane, Thinking, Amazing Things, Handshake

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

- Francis Chichester

topic: Drunk, World, Sailor, Mariners, Navigate

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

- Edgar Mitchell

source: Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.454, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Stars, Home, Science, A Perfect World, Aviator

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

- Bessie Coleman

topic: School, Flying, Black, Aviator

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

- Amelia Earhart

source: "Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by George Palmer Putnam, 1939.

topic: Appreciation, Women, Home, Love And Appreciation, Appreciation In Relationships

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

- Jean Batten

topic: Ocean, Airplane, Land, Urges, Uncharted

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

- George E. M. Kelly

topic: Business, Differences, Leader, Funny Leadership, Spiritual Leader

And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else. In the case of 'The Aviator' it was to create a Hollywood spectacle, but by about the second or third week of shooting you just want to literally survive it. Because don't forget, I also go through the editing process too, and when the film is released I have to talk about it. So, I take all of that very seriously.

- Martin Scorsese

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Editing, Desire, Trying, Aviator, Try Your Best

If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

- Harriet Quimby

topic: Want, Uniforms, Firsts, Aviator

The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.

- Billy Bishop

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fighting, Flying, Important, Air Force, Fighter Pilot

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

- Beryl Markham

source: Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.170, Open Road Media

topic: Wisdom, Perseverance, Business, Daily Work, Flamboyant

Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Federico Fellini, he is certainly consistently more interesting than Steven Spielberg, Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola or Woody Allen. Even a failure like Gangs of New York or a curiosity like The Aviator is more interesting and ambitious than Munich, The Black Dahlia or Scoop.

- Joe Queenan

topic: New York, America, Interesting, Hitchcock, Dahlias

Versace pythons. Louis Aviators. Balenciagas & they gotta be the gladiators.

- Nicki Minaj

topic: Python, Materialistic, Versace, Aviator

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

- Charles Lindbergh

source: Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt

topic: Clouds, Mountain, World, Aviator

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

- Richard Bach

source: Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

topic: Ignorance, Fishing, Skills, Learn To Fly, Livingston Seagull

California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California in the sense of the West. The old West where Manifest Destiny was an almost palpable notion that was somehow tied to the land and the climate and one's own family-an unspoken belief that was passed down to children in stories and sayings.

- Michiko Kakutani

topic: Children, Destiny, Land, Manifest Destiny, Old West