Trucker Cobb Quotes in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

Heinrich Dorfmann: I must say, without a radio, you would have expected them to turn for their alternate airport by now. Wouldn't you?

Trucker Cobb: I don't know, you grew up boy? Are you from the oil fields?

Heinrich Dorfmann: My brother's there Dorfmann. I went to visit him on a holiday.

Trucker Cobb: You went to visit your brother a general?

Heinrich Dorfmann: Yes he's chief under the geophysicist for the Iraqi oil company. That pilot, I would have thought he was a little elderly to be flying without a copilot. Wouldn't you?

Trucker Cobb: That sand's a bastard you know that, a real bastard.