Memorable Quotes from Donald Moffat
4 quotesTension Amidst Uncertainty in Isolation
Norwegian passenger with rifle
Se til helvete og kom dere vekk. Det er ikke en bikkje. Det er en slags ting! Det imiterer en bikkje. Det er ikke virkelig! Kom dere vekk, idioter! (Get the hell away. That's not a dog. It's some kind of thing! It's imitating a dog. It's not real! Get away, idiots!)
Clark
I don't know what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is.
Garry
I know you gentlemen have been through a lot. But when you find the time... I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
[after passing the blood test]
Norris
This is just what it wants! To pit us against each other!
Windows
Are you guys gonna listen to Garry?! Are you gonna let him give the orders?! I mean, he can be one of those things!
Blair
Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute, man. I want to come back inside, don't you understand? I'm alright, I'm much better. And I won't harm anybody. Now you gotta let me come back inside.
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The Conflict Between Truth and Deception
Sherman McCoy
There's one thing I can do. I want to see the truth come out, and burn every one of them, and there's only one way to do that.
Mr. McCoy
And what is that?
Sherman McCoy
Lie.
Mr. McCoy
Oh... you know I have always been a great believer in the truth. I have lived my life as honestly as I can. I, I believe in the truth as an essential companion to a man of conscience. A beacon in this vast and dark wasteland, that is our modern world. And yet...
Sherman McCoy
Yes?
Mr. McCoy
...in this case, if the truth won't set you free, then lie.
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Desperate Measures in Arctic Isolation
MacReady
Blair... he got back inside and blew the generator. In six hours, it'll be 100 below in here!
Garry
Well, that's suicide!
MacReady
Not for that Thing. It wants to freeze now. It's got no way out of here. It just wants to go to sleep in the cold until the rescue team finds it.
Garry
What can we do? What can we do?
MacReady
Whether we make it or not, we can't let the Thing freeze again. Maybe we'll just warm things up a little around here. We're not gettin outta here alive. But neither is that Thing.
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Skepticism Towards Extraterrestrial Claims
MacReady
I don't know. Thousands of years ago it crashes, and this thing... gets thrown out, or crawls out, and it ends up freezing in the ice.
Childs
I just cannot believe any of this voodoo bullshit.
Palmer
Childs, happens all the time, man. They're falling out of the skies like flies. Government knows all about it, right, Mac?
Childs
You believe any of this voodoo bullshit, Blair?
Palmer
Childs, Childs... ], man. They practically own South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know.
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Garry
So, come on now, MacReady, Norwegians get ahold of this... and they dig it up out of the ice.
MacReady
Yes, Garry, they dig it up, they cart it back, it gets thawed out, wakes up - probably not the best of moods - I don't know, I wasn't there!
Nauls
Which one of you disrespectful men been tossing his dirty drawers in the kitchen trash can, huh? From now, I want my kitchen clean, all right? Germ free!
[skates in with ripped long johns]
Childs
So how's this motherfucker wake up after thousands of years in the ice?
Bennings
And how can it look like a dog?
MacReady
I don't know how. Cause it's different than us, see? Cause it's from outer space. What do you want from me? Ask him!
[motions to Blair]
Childs
You buy any of this Blair?
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