Episode 1 Pilot Quotes

#1. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

Samuel Johnson

#2. If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the present moment. You will be caught in the past. You will close the door that gave rise to the experience in the first place.

Leonard Jacobson

#3. The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.

Michael Patrick King

#4. People like 'Crank,' some people like 'Redemption.' I'm just happy to do things that satiate a different part of me, that test me a little bit.

Jason Statham

#5. One of the things I noticed about the '2 Broke Girls' pilot was that it looked like a new episode in a season and not a pilot, and that's an amazing sign.

Nick Zano

#6. The best thing about the Nikita show is that there's so many layers. Even after the pilot, the next four have a twist. Don't think that you've seen it all or that you know it now, and that it's not going to have any more surprises. There's a surprise in every episode, so it's a lot to keep track of.

Lyndsy Fonseca

#7. Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

Anna Torv

#8. I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know.

Harry Shearer

#9. He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was in mortal sin, that his life had grown to be a tissue of subterfuge and falsehood.

James Joyce

#10. Louisiana has a larger alligator population than any other state. Just over a million."
"Over a million!" exclaimed Amelia with astonishment.

Linda Weaver Clarke

#11. Time does not pass - only events pass. Where do they go? Hmmmmmmm.

Art Hochberg

#12. We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.

Tom Wujec

#13. My father always said that you cannot graft a culture of science and engineering onto an Iron Age society. And so it's proving.' Bisesa studied him. 'You'll have to tell me about your father.

Arthur C. Clarke

#14. My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

Kate Del Castillo

#15. Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

Vandana Shiva

#16. I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

Alec Soth

#17. When people use you, it does not feel very good. But when God uses you for His purpose, it's the gretest feeling in the world!

Jen Selinsky

#18. Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

Pat Morita

#19. If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.

Bill Lawrence

#21. With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

Melissa Rosenberg

#22. Bring your reality to life by mining the intuitive abilities of your heart.

Steven Redhead

#23. 'The X-Files' from the beginning was a very visual show, and with Bob Mandel directing the pilot and Dan Sackheim being involved in the production of the pilot and directing the first episode, they brought a visual style to it that was elaborated on by so many good directors.

Chris Carter

#24. Dude.. where's your suit? Just once, when I say "suit up" I wish you'd put on a suit.

Barney Stinson

#25. I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.

Celia Imrie