Burt Lancaster

Col. Thaddeus Gearhart: "I don't care how dirty you are, I will not have you ladies bathing in nude!"
Cora T. Massingale: "There's no other way I know of, colonel."

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

"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!"

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

Vernon Demerest: "Sitting behind that desk made you think like a bookkeeper."
Mel Bakersfeld: "I didn't always fly a desk."
Vernon Demerest: "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."

"If it's the last thing I do, I'll have that entire band transferred to Alaska!"

"Give a woman an acorn and the next thing you know you're up to your rump in oak trees."