Memorable Quotes from Nick Searcy
4 quotesUrgent Travel Plans Amidst Flight Challenges
Chuck Noland
I absolutely, positively have to get to Memphis tonight.
Pilot Jack
Can't help you. Try ].
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Chuck Noland
Hey, with this extra headwind, are we gonna be able to push it a bit and make the sort?
Pilot Jack
We'll do our best.
Chuck Noland
Our best", huh? Now Gwen, is there something wrong with our doctors that Jack here keeps getting certified to fly? Aren't you concerned?
Pilot Gwen
I'm terrified, but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.
Chuck Noland
That's the spirit there. Relentless is our goal, relentless!
Stan
What do you expect from the guy who stole a crippled kid's bicycle when his truck broke down.
Chuck Noland
I borrowed it. I borrowed it, but I love that the kid's now crippled.
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Lunch Break in a Tense Trial
Nicholas Easter
Well, I guess that's lunch...
[after anti-gun fanatic is dragged kicking and screaming from the courtroom during jury selection, even though he claims he want to be heard]
Henry Jankle
...I was under the impression that we'd already purchased ourselves a verdict.
Wendell Rohr
Gentlemen, I have lost my footing in this trial.
Judge Harkin
I'm not sure, but I believe I'm buying lunch.
Doyle
It's a set-up. Don't do it!
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The Consequences of Small Delays
Stan
So you missed the last truck by two minutes, huh?
Chuck Noland
Two minutes. Actually, it was less than that.
Stan
Well, the plane wasn't that heavy; you could've added fuel, picked up the speed and made up the time.
Chuck Noland
It was about the trucks. Today's truck was two minutes late, tomorrow's will be four minutes late, and then six minutes late, and then eight minutes late, and the next thing you know, we're U.S. Mail.
Stan
Yeah, well, all's I'm saying is, if you'd gotten all those trucks on the plane those Russkies would be walking on water right now. Hey, now, don't-- don't give me that look. It's just grape juice. Right, Chuck?
[to Gwen, while pouring some wine]
Chuck Noland
Yeah, it's like a 1992 full-bodied grape juice.
Pilot Gwen
I see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Stan
Well, we'd offer you some but, you know, somebody's got to fly the plane.
Pilot Gwen
Yeah, well, I just say no, right? Listen, Stan, I've been meaning to ask you. How's Mary?
Stan
Oh. Uh, well... we really don't know anything yet.
Pilot Gwen
Mm-hmm.
Stan
Uh, she went to the doctor yesterday, and uh... it hasn't me-- metastasized as far as they can tell right now. It's just kind of wait and see.
Pilot Gwen
I'm so sorry. Would you tell her I'm gonna come by and see her on my next layover? I just want you to know, Stan, we are all just thinking about her and you, and just blessings.
Stan
Thank you, Gwen, thank you.
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Anticipation of a Reunion
Stan
Forty-five minutes. One Dr. Pepper, two cups of ice.
[hands Chuck a Dr. Pepper and two cups of ice]
Chuck Noland
I like ice.
[chuckles]
Stan
Well, here's the drill. Um, plane pulls in, we get off, and there's a little ceremony right there in the hangar. Fred Smith will say a few words, all you have to do is smile and say "thank you", then we'll take you over to see Kelly.
Chuck Noland
She's actually gonna be there, huh?
Stan
Well, that's what we have arranged. I mean, if you're sure you want to do that...
Chuck Noland
Oh, yeah, yeah. Yes. I don't know what I'm gonna say to her. What in the world am I gonna say to her?
Stan
Chuck, Kelly had to let you go. You know? She thought you were dead... and we buried you. We had a funeral and a coffin and a gravestone, the whole thing.
[sighs]
Chuck Noland
You had a coffin? What was in it?
Stan
Well, everybody put something in. You know, just a cell phone or a beeper, some pictures. I put in some Elvis CDs.
Chuck Noland
So you had my funeral... and then you had Mary's funeral. Stan, I'm so sorry I wasn't around when Mary died. I should've been there for you, and I wasn't. I'm so sorry.
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