The High and the Mighty

[first lines]

Ben Sneed:
Hey fella, ain't you Dan Roman?

Dan Roman:
Yeah.

Ben Sneed:
I heard you whistlin' and I said to myself only one guy does that just so.

[last lines]

Tim Garfield:
So Long. So long, you ancient pelican.

Gonzales:
[shipboard radio operator Gonzales is advising the pilots of surface conditions they can expect if they ditch the aircraft] Heavy northwest swells. We're rolling about thirty degrees. Very rough. Keep that ship in the air if you can, boy, it's wet down here!

Hobie Wheeler:
[acknowledging the transmission from the ship] Roger, Cristobal Trader. We'll try.

Gonzales:
Attaboy, papa!

Ken Childs:
Keep talking, please keep talking; I'm frightened...

May Holst:
Talking? Honey, you dont know what you're asking. Tell you a good joke on me: You know, I always dreaded the idea of becoming an old woman. And the way things look now, I won't have to worry about it any more. You know, I haven't been whistled at in years, and the idea of growing roses for the rest of my life is really beginning to haunt me. There oughta be a home for dames like me. Yup - we shoulda organized. You know, a house somewhere with no mirror in it, far away where we never have to look at a young girl. They have homes for unmarried mothers but everybody forgets about the girls who - who never quite managed to make things legal. I think I could start one! Yeah - I could call it the May Holst Home for Broken-Down Broads. I kind of like that, don't you?

Alsop:
She may be put together with paste and flour, but that woman has something. What would you say it was?

Miss Spalding:
Practice. Plenty of practice.

Ben Sneed:
Yep, Dan Roman is one guy who had guts enough not to commit suicide.

Dan Roman:
I need a big man. Grab me around the waist.