Navy Pilot Sayings

#1. Paying attention is more important to reliability than moving slowly. Because he pays close attention, a Navy pilot can land a 40,000 lb. aircraft at 140 miles per hour on a pitching carrier deck, at night, more safely than the average teenager can cut a bagel.

Paul Graham

#2. I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

John L. Phillips

#3. I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.

Alan G. Poindexter

#4. The more you read the more places you will go,the more places you go the more things you will learn.

Dr. Seuss

#5. I want you to know I'm an Army brat; I was a captain in the Army and my brother was a jet pilot in the Navy. So I support our troops; I identify with them. But I sure as hell don't identify with the bastards who sent them over there.

Kris Kristofferson

#6. You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

Ian Rankin

#7. I am a pilot and I run a Medical Transport Squad. That means, for most of my life I am living it up in the air." -- USN CAPT Joe Woodhaven

L.A. Kragie

#8. In New Guinea, they had a disease called kuru, transmitted by eating the brains of their enemies." "That's not true." "Gajdusek won a Nobel Prize for it. They were eating brains, all right.

Michael Crichton

#9. It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

Chris Van Hollen

#10. People don't want the debunk, they want the bunk,' Price once noted, a trifle acidly. He

Roger Clarke

#11. By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.

Marianne Williamson

#12. Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

Stanley Crouch

#13. The real risk is doing nothing.

Denis Waitley

#14. What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.

Douglas Brinkley