Movie Quotes for Airport

"Cleveland just handed off flight two to Chicago Center. The transmissions from the aircraft aren’t exactly regulation. The captain’s blowing a fuse."

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"Now there’s nothing to be nervous about. I’ve flown thousands of miles and I can tell you it’s a lot safer than crossing the street!"

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"You look more Irish."

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"So will anyone sittin’ next to him. Until that pressure equalizes, everything within 20 feet to him that’s not nailed down or strapped in is gonna get sucked right out of that hole."

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"And two and a half feet into the ground"

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"When you get to be older, there isn’t a lot left to be frightened of."

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"Yes Doug. This is Mel."

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"How do you do."

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"Don’t talk to me about consequences! When Congress voted to cut airport appropriations, you never even sent in a letter of protest. And where were you when the airlines and the pilots and the rest of us were…were pleading for…for more airports and better traffic control? You were picking out the colors in the ladies’ lounge. So now you’ve got your consequences!"

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"Takes about 3 seconds, doesn’t it?"

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"If he tears this plane apart, I hope you’ve got eight million to pay for it."

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"You chickened out on me! I told you I wanted all the power you got!"

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"You’ll use what’s available!"

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"I didn’t always fly a desk."

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"My late husband played the violin. Not professionally, but he was very good. He once played the Minute Waltz in 58 seconds."

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"You’ve been so busy, we just haven’t had a chance to chat. I’m Ada Quonsett."

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"So did my mother."

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"He won’t. The moment a girl gets too serious, he waves his wedding ring like a flag. I’m his disaster insurance."

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"Oh…yes…of course!"

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"You have a young navigator here! Well, I’ll tell you son…Due to a Cetcil wind, Dystor’s vectored us into a 360-tarson of slow air traffic. Now we’ll maintain this Borden hold until we get the Forta Magnus clearance from Melnics."

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"I came out here to tell you that Roberta left home."

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"Thanks for caring, Mel. Don’t worry. Someday he’ll come home for some other reason than to just change his clothes."

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"For this food, for our many blessings, and for Your bounteous goodness, we give thanks to Thee in the name of…JESUS CHRIST!"

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"There’s just the two of us. If I left him, what would I have?"

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"Chicago Supervisor listen carefully! Any approach is no damn good if it lands on runway 2-2. We need 2-niner. We’ve got an unservicable stabilizer trim. Doubtful rudder control and structural damage. If we’re brought in on 2-2 there’ll be a broken airplane and a lot of dead people. So you call Lincoln, mister, and turn the screws and tell that Lincoln airport manager to get off his penguin butt and clear that runway!"

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"Wah-wah-wah-wah-wah! We’re gonna crash! We’re all gonna be killed! I know we’re gonna be…"

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"For my sake, be patient with him."

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"Is there anything I can do?"

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"Yes, but way…back."

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"Is it that powerful, are you sure?"

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"What did he mean by that, son?"

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"Guerrero! That’s Spanish, isn’t it?"

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"Global 2. This is the Chicago Center watch supervisor. Please understand we’re doing everything we can. We’re holding other traffic and giving you priority. What type of approach do you wish?"

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"I’d like to monitor. What’s the frequency?"

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"My late husband taught me to be thorough. He was a teacher of geometry. He always said: You must consider every angle."

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"This time, do me one favor. If your boss says two and two is six, agree with him."

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"Hey, now, that’s a good idea, Mel. Using little old ladies for skycaps. You keep that up. You’re doing a good job."

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"Aww, a tractor-trailer jack-knifed and flipped over. It’s laying on its side like a drunken dinosaur."

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"How you can live with that overage juvenile delinquent, I’ll never know."

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"And THEN watch out! At that altitude, you can’t breathe. So unless they get on oxygen in 45 seconds, it’s good-bye!"

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"Before, Virgo and Leo were right there, sir. Now I’m beginning to see Ursa Minor and Cassiopeia. We MUST be turning around."

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"Helen was a stewardess, flying DC-4s. That’s how we met and, uh, she knew what was going on. So when we got married, I made her a promise – the obvious one. I always kept it."

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"But they wouldn’t, would they? I don’t think it would be very good public relations for a big airline to prosecute a little old lady just because she wanted to visit her daughter!"

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"What’s your name, sir?"

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"That’s personal property!"

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"You better get this thing out of here ’cause I’m not taking off on 2-2."

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"I suppose I’m like a lot of men. A bigamist. Married to both a woman and a job."

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"Remind me to send a thank you note to Mr. Boeing."

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"Perhaps Mr. Bakersfeld could impress upon Mrs. Quonsett that this isn’t a very nice thing to do. Mrs. Livingston hasn’t been able to!"

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"Nuts to the man in 21D."

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"Okay. But you keep those dinky toys out of my hair and away from this plane for 15 minutes, maybe less. I’ll DRIVE it out."

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"Sitting behind that desk made you think like a bookkeeper."

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"They’re having a conference now to decide what to do. But I need somebody who knows. A genius. Like Patroni."

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"You might tell your mechanic that I’ve got three million miles in the air."

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"We need answers! Not questions. Are you guys sleeping down there? Why aren’t we getting any action? We need help!"

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"Mobil 1. Ground Control."

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"Snowdesk, Mobil 1. Danny, listen carefully. Break the conga line. Send the heavy plows across to runway 2-niner. They’re to head for stuck airplane and to wait instruction."

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"Well, let’s put it this way- You promised me a box of cigars if I pull this off, right?"

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"You felt it vibrating? Another 10 seconds and we’d have had structural damage."

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"Don’t you realize they could prosecute you?"

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"The instruction book said that was impossible."

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"When will they learn? The duty would have been about one-tenth of what the fine is gonna be!"

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"There’s bound to be a passenger with a fifty-dollar wrenched back. I’d better get out there with some release forms and plenty of sympathy and understanding."

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"3, 4 or 5, depends on the size of the hole. Everything fogs up just like that."

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"Hold the whipped cream; I just had dessert."

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"Joe, this is Mel. There’s no more time. Stop all engines and get out. Repeat. Stop all engines."

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"Well all right, Daddy. Now you tell me about when you were a war hero. You flew those pursuit jobs you could land in a parking lot. But when I’m setting down over 200,000 pounds of 707, I want something under my wheels that’s plenty long and mighty dry."

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"My late husband was a lawyer, and he always said: Watch out for sweet-looking innocent little old ladies. I’m beginning to understand what he meant."

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"If you’re wondering if we had another fight, the answer is no. Just a continuation of the same one."

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"Yes, uh…Mrs., uh…Quonsett? Uh, what you’ve done is, uh…dishonest. You’ve broken the law. You’ve defrauded Trans Global."

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"Well, I hope so."

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"What’s more, the captain deliberately struck me across the face!"

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"Unless you shut up, the second officer’s going to do exactly the same thing."

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"And I can’t be number 2 wife any longer."

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"Who do ya think you’re talking to, some kid that fixes bicycles? I know every inch of the 707! Take the wings off this and you could use it as a TANK! This plane is built to withstand anything…except a bad pilot."

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"More like group insurance!"

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"Joe, my neck’s out about fourteen feet, sure it’ll work?"

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"Would you have any more if he decided to leave you?"

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"He’ll get sucked out, won’t he?"

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"And we don’t have a home anymore. We have a waiting room. A place where I can walk the floor and wonder whether you’re going to leave this damn airport long enough to drop by for a few minutes."

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"Well, whataya standin’ there for? Go GET ‘em!"

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"You might fly these things but I take them apart and put them back together again. If you had any guts we’d be on the runway by now."

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"Now stop that! both of you."

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"Well, if it’s 2-2, I’m not using noise abatement and I’m not cutting back on power over those houses. So unless you want a big fat bill for cracked plaster and broken dishes, you’d better move this thing!"

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"Mr. Patroni? Don’t you hear him? Shut down."

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"Mr. Patroni, she won’t take much more."

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"Why you have to pick tonight, to come out here and fight with me…"

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"Never mind, father, I’ll tell you later."

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"Captain, our son has a question. Schuyler, here’s our captain."

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"They don’t call them emergencies anymore. They call them Patronis."

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"I’ll be back in time if I have to pull that plane out with my teeth!"

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"Full throttle and this plane would be standing on its nose."

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"The sudden decompression at 30, 000 feet is something you gotta see to believe."

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"Humph! Yeah, I’m sure. When I was a mechanic in the Air Force, I was being transferred on a MATS plane, At 20,000 feet, one of the windows shattered. The guy sitting next to it was about 170 pounds. He went through that little space like a hunk of hamburger going down a disposal, and right after him coats, pillows, blankets, cups, saucers. Yeah, I’m sure!"

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"Yes, Father. I’m putting you in charge of prayer."

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"If that’s an order, it’s about thirty minutes too late, son."

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"I can’t hear a thing. There’s too much noise. Hold on. We’re GOIN FOR BROKE!"

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"That’s one nice thing about the 707. It can do everything BUT read."

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"Hold on, we’re goin’ for broke!"

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"Well anyway, she’s gonna get it."

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"Joe, the plows are moving. Shut down and hold on! Joe Patroni! Do you read me? Acknowledge!"

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"Joe! Shut down!"

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