- Hap Stuart: [Offscreen] Watta yuh do when the wings fall off?
- Dave Logan: [Not knowing who's talking to him] Take a train, sucker.
- Tom Collins: [Looking suspiciously at some aggressive sea gulls] Hey, do goony birds have teeth?
- Engineer on Clipper: Why?
- Tom Collins: I was just wondering, that's all.
- Mr. B.C. Hill: [to Dave] You aviators are swell people, but you're too visionary, too friendly, too easy-going. You're daydreamers instead of go-getters. In a way, you've got to be crazy. You're not satisfied to live with flying - you've got to be in love with it.
- Mr. B.C. Hill: [Emphatic about his decision to shut down the unprofitale airline] I'm sorry, but my mind's made up!
- Dave Logan: We worked like dogs to make this airline go! We haven't had a single crash. We've got a future!
- Dave Logan: [Argumentatively] Don't stall! If you got something on your chest, spill it.
- Hap Stuart: Okay, Sailor, here it is - You used to be a regular guy - now you're not even human. When you start cannin' guys like Bill Andrews that have been with the outfit for years, that proves it! You're letting your job turn you into a heel with a cast-iron heart. You don't have to be tough just to show everybody you're a big shot!
- Dave Logan: Somebody's got to be tough to get things done around here!
- Tom Collins: That's the queerest looking crate I ever saw. What makes you think it will fly?
- Dad Brunn: It will fly, alright. Some day you'll prove it.
- Tom Collins: If I do, I should have my head examined!
- Jean Logan: I didn't want to leave you Dave, but I had to because...
- Dave Logan: Because you didn't believe in me then. And I can't quite sell myself the idea you believe in me now.
- Sunny Avery: Hello - remember me?
- Tom Collins: How could I forget yuh? What're doin' here?
- Sunny Avery: Well, I got sorta lonely so I thought I'd see how you felt.
- Tom Collins: I feel terrible now, how do you feel?
- Sunny Avery: Oh, I feel good.
- Tom Collins: Well, you go away, we'll both feel good. I gotta fly this ship to China.
- Sunny Avery: Oh, what do you want to go there for?
- Tom Collins: I gotta take some laundry.
- [runs off]
- [referring to Dave Logan after safely landing the China Clipper after flying through a typhoon]
- Hap Stuart: I was just thinking how swell it would have been if he just said, "Thanks".