# Quote — Stephen King, The Langoliers

> He remembered a pilot telling him once, 'They pay us a hundred thousand dollars or more a year, Brian, and they really do it for just one reason. They know that in almost every pilot's career, there are thirty or forty seconds when he might actually make a difference. They pay us not to freeze when those seconds finally come.'

- Author: [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md)
- Book: [The Langoliers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-langoliers.md)
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## More from this book

> 'I can always feel the light. It's like heat inside my head.'

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> 'Second, people think better when their stomachs are full.' He shrugged. 'It's just a law of nature.'

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> It's like glimpsing a beautiful woman for just a moment in the back seat of a limousine - she looks even more beautiful than she really is because you know she's not yours, can never be yours.

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