George Kennedy Quotes

Joe Patroni There she is. She's flying it! She's flying it herself!

Alan Murdock Climb baby, climb.

Joe Patroni That's one nice thing about the 707. It can do everything but read.

Luke Anybody here? Hey, Old Man. You home tonight? Can You spare a minute? It's about time we had a little talk. I know I'm a pretty evil fellow... killed people in the war and got drunk... and chewed up municipal property and the like. I know I got no call to ask for much... but even so, You've got to admit You ain't dealt me no cards in a long time. It's beginning to look like You got things fixed so I can't never win out. Inside, outside, all of them... rules and regulations and bosses. You made me like I am. Now just where am I supposed to fit in? Old Man, I gotta tell You. I started out pretty strong and fast. But it's beginning to get to me. When does it end? What do You got in mind for me? What do I do now? Right. All right. On my knees, asking. Yeah, that's what I thought. I guess I'm pretty tough to deal with, huh? A hard case. Yeah. I guess I gotta find my own way.

Dragline Luke?

Luke Is that Your answer, Old Man? I guess You're a hard case, too.

Dragline Luke? You all right? They got us, boy. They're out there, thicker than flies. Bosses, dogs, sheriffs, more guns than I've ever seen in my life. You ain't got a chance. They caught up with me right after we split up. And they was aimin to kill ya. But I fixed it. I got em to promise if you give up peaceful, they won't whip ya this time...Luke, you gotta listen to me. All ya got to do is give up nice and quiet. Just play cool.

Luke What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

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

Tanya Livingston He'll get sucked out, won't he?

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

Bert Weatherby Is it that powerful, are you sure?

Joe Patroni 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.

Mel Bakersfeld Takes about 3 seconds, doesn't it?

Joe Patroni 3, 4 or 5, depends on the size of the hole. Everything fogs up just like that. And THEN watch out! At that altitude, you can't breathe. So unless they get on oxygen in 45 seconds, it's good-bye!

President Richardson ], this is the President of the United States.

Admiral Conway This is Admiral Conway, Mr President.

Richardson I would like the entire American contingent to hear what I have to say. Has the sickness hit your station yet?

Conway No sir, there is no sign of any illness here.

Richardson And the other stations?

Conway There are no reported illnesses at any of the stations, and we are in more or less regular contact. How bad is it, Mr President?

Richardson Patch me through to the other Antarctic bases.

Conway All of them sir?

Richardson All of them, Admiral Conway.

Conway Right away, Mr President.

Radio Operator Attention, attention all stations! Please stand by for an important message from the President of the United States. I repeat - all personnel, all stations, must listen to the following message. Please stand by.

Richardson It is with great regret and personal sorrow, as well as the position of the government of the United States that I officially confirm what most of you already know. The world has been beset by a horrible plague, and now we are unable to devise an effective vaccine. The United States has sustained... sustained casualties of the greatest magnitude. No country has escaped a similar fate. We do know something about this virus. We know this virus remains dormant under subzero conditions. For this reason, you in Antarctica, have not been affected. Do not leave your sanctuary. Do not allow those from the outside to enter. Under no conditions try to return. I offer you no solutions, no hope other than that, somehow, you may prevail. This time, try to work it out together, please. Please? And may God bless you all.

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

Red Leary Go... fuck... a duck.

Sgt. Lew Slade Earthquakes bring out the worst in some people.

Dragline Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin back at me - with nothin'.

Luke Yeah, well, sometimes nothin can be a real cool hand.

Dragline Move over. I'm gonna sit in here next to my boy - Cool Hand Luke.

Dragline Don't hit me, Boss. Don't hit me. I'll do whatever you say. Only don't hit me." You're an original, that's what you are! Them mullet-heads didn't even know you was foolin'!

Luke Foolin em, huh? You can't fool em about somethin like that. They broke me. But they didn't get my mind right. Not with no stick, no, sir.

Dragline Aw. All that time, you was plannin on runnin again.

Luke I never planned anything in my life.

Joe Patroni 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.

Joe Patroni I'll be back in time if I have to pull that plane out with my teeth!

Dragline That's my darlin Luke. He grin like a baby, but he bites like a gator.

Joe Patroni Nice going sweetheart (as he taps the fuselage of the damaged plane)

Dragline Boy, you're new meat. You're gonna have to shape up fast and hard for this gang. We got rules here. In order to learn em, you gotta do more work with your ears than with your mouth.

Dragline Somebody say somethin'?

Luke I didn't say nothin', Boss.

Dragline Well, whatta we got here?

Luke A Lucas Jackson.

Society Red You don't have a name here until Dragline gives you one.

Dragline Maybe we ought to call it No Ears. You don't listen much, do ya, boy?

Luke I ain't heard that much worth listenin to. There's a lot of guys layin down a lot of rules and regulations.

Dr. James Vance This used to be a helluva town, officer.

Sgt. Lew Slade Yeah...

Dragline Where'd the road go?

Luke That's it. That's the end of it.

Convict Man, there's still daylight.

Dragline About two hours left.

Convict What do we do now?

Luke Nothin'.

Dragline Oh Luke, you wild, beautiful thing. You crazy handful of nothin'.

Luke Let him go. Bam, Bam.

Dragline Knock it off, Luke. You can't talk about Him that way.

Luke Are you still believin in that big bearded Boss up there? You think he's watchin us?

Dragline Get in here. Ain't ya scared? Ain't ya scared of dyin'?

Luke Dyin'? Boy, he can have this little life any time he wants to. Do ya hear that? Are ya hearin it? Come on. You're welcome to it, ol timer. Let me know you're up there. Come on. Love me, hate me, kill me, anything. Just let me know it.

Luke I'm just standin in the rain talkin to myself.

Joe Patroni Hold the whipped cream; I just had a dessert.

Dragline They took him right down that road.

Convicts What'd he look like, Drag?...Yeah, what'd he look like?..He had his eyes opened or closed, Drag?

Dragline He was smiling... That's right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn't know it fore, they could tell right then that they weren't a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Old Luke, he was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he's a natural-born world-shaker.

Convict Oh man, oh man, I'm dyin'.

Gambler She ain't got nothin but, nothin but one safety pin holdin that thing on. Come on safety pin, POP. Come on baby, POP.

Dragline Hey Lord, whatever I done, don't strike me blind for another couple of minutes. My Lucille!... That's Lucille, you mullet head. Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille.

Convict She don't know what she's doin'.

Luke Oh boy, she knows exactly what she's doin'. She's drivin us crazy and lovin every minute of it.

Dragline Shut your mouth about my Lucille.

Dr Irma Ollich Well, we really don't know how to go about it just yet, although the problem itself is certainly clear enough. Women have become our most valuable natural resource and as it has just been pointed out, one-to-one human relations are no longer possible. This means that each women however reluctantly, will have to... accommodate more than one man. Of course, we will have to go against deep personal feelings and this is an extremely serious matter, but somehow we must find the will to suppress our instincts and that is what troubles me the most. Can we? Can we control our instincts with reason?

Dr Tarowicz Unless we can, there is no future. The human race will die out.

Sylvia It's too much! How can we live like that?!?

Admiral Conway Sylvia, from the bottom of my heart, I wish that I could answer your question.

Dragline He ain't in the box because of the joke played on him. He back-sassed a free man. They got their rules. We ain't got nothin to do with that. Would probably have happened to him sooner or later anyway - a complainer like him. He gotta learn the rules the same as anybody else.

Luke Yeah, them poor old Bosses need all the help they can get.

Dragline You tryin to say somethin'? You got a flappin mouth. One of these days, I'm gonna have to flap me up some dust with it.

Red Leary Where'd you get the dents?

Lightfoot Progress. I dreamt about you last night.

Red Leary What about?

Lightfoot I dreamt you said hello to me.

Red Leary Don't you get smart with me. I'll break both your arms.

Lightfoot I'll keep that in mind.

Red Leary Remember what I said. John and me go back a long way. But you don't mean nothin to me, understand? Nothin'!

Lightfoot What'd you try and kill him for then?

Red Leary Because we were friends.