Scott GlennQuotes

Alan Shepard: Dear Lord - please don't let me fuck up.

Gordon Cooper: [at launch control center] I didn't quite copy that. Say again, please.

Alan Shepard: Uh, I said everything is A-OK!

Gordon Cooper: [amused; switches channels] Well, I thought that's what you said. He says everything is A-OK!

Gordon Cooper: Uh, where are you putting the window?

German Scientist #1: Window? There is no window.

Gus Grissom: No window? What about the hatch?

German Scientist #1: The hatch?

Gus Grissom: Yeah, the hatch. We need a hatch with explosive bolts that we can open ourselves.

German Scientist #1: I think there is something you do not understand. This is the final form of the capsule. No hatch.

Deke Slayton: What if the automatic controls went out?

German Scientist #1: Backups, checks, etcetera. This would not happen.

Deke Slayton: I said, what would happen if it did?

Scott Carpenter: The pilot would have to fly it back.

German Scientist #2: This is the way it is.

John Glenn: You know, I wonder how the press is going to feel about this.

German Scientist #2: The press? What does the press have to say about this?

German Scientist #1: Yeah, what do they have to say about it?

Gordon Cooper: You boys know what makes this bird go up? Funding makes this bird go up.

Gus Grissom: That's right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.

Gordon Cooper: And, uh, the press over there, they want to see Buck Rogers.

Deke Slayton: And that's us. Buck Rogers.

John Glenn: You see, those fellas over there, they've been making us out as the seven finest, and bravest pilots in all America. And if a story were to come out in the press that we were not being allowed to fly as pilots...

Alan Shepard: We want a window.

German Scientist #2: Uh, there could maybe be in future capsules, be a window, right here.

Gus Grissom: No, that's where the hatch with explosive bolts goes.

German Scientist #1: The hatch with the explosive...? Yeah. There could be a hatch with explosive bolts on the capsule.

Alan Shepard: That is a spacecraft, sir. We do not refer to it as a "capsule". Spacecraft.

German Scientist #1: Yeah. The hatch with explosive bolts on the... spacecraft. There. And there will be pitch and yaw thrusters which will enable the astronaut occupant—

Deke Slayton: The pilot. "Astronaut occupant"?

German Scientist #1: Yeah, the astronaut... pilot to have some...

German Scientist #1: To have...

German Scientist #1: ... control of the re-entry procedures.

John Glenn: Thank you. we appreciate it. You wouldn't mind if we had the press over here take a few photos of us by our spacecraft now, would you?

Recruiter #1: [gags] I guess you've heard about our project. We're going up against the Russians all the way. It's got the highest...

Recruiter #2: Priority.

Recruitrer #1: It's a hazardous undertaking. In fact, it's extremely hazardous, if you get my meaning.

Recruiter #2: It's so hazardous, that, if, uh, you decide not to volunteer, it will not be held against you in any way.

Alan Shepard: Sounds dangerous.

Recruiter #1: It is.

Recruiter #2: Very dangerous.

Alan Shepard: Count me in.

George W. Bush: What about projected casualties?

General: Well, I think now more in the neighborhood of several hundred, no more than 1,000.

George W. Bush: Just remember, Americans don't like to see dead boys on their television sets.

Donald Rumsfeld: Yes, death tends to give war a depressing image.

Tony Gartner: General, Colonel Serling's order to activate lights, was that a standard response to enemy infiltration of the lines?

General Hershberg: At the critical moment, in spite of terrible losses, Colonel Serling didn't hesitate to act. Ordering those tanks to turn on their lights saved the lives of God knows how many of our men. Heroic acts arise out of desperate circumstances.

Gartner: I have no trouble at all believing Colonel Serling is a hero.

Hershberg: Like Captain Karen Walden. Did you know, Mr Gartner, that for the first time, a woman is being considered for the Medal of Honor for her performance under fire? And, um... Colonel Serling is just finishing up the inquiry. How's that going, Nat?

Serling: [stands up, walks over to General Hershberg and throws his very thick report on the desk to the general's surprise] I think, uh... in order to honor a soldier like Karen Walden, we have to tell the truth, General, about what happened over there. The whole, hard... cold truth. And until we do that, uh, we dishonor her and every soldier who died, who gave their life for their country. My full report, General.

Mark Turso: Is it possible?

Ezra Kramer: [[The Bourne Supremacy (film)|We had Bourne six weeks ago in Moscow. He was on foot, wounded, with a full Cossack posse up his ass.; [The Bourne Ultimatum (film)|Somehow, he walked out of there.] Possible? ] ] I've kind of lost my perspective on what's possible.

Montgomery Wick: [to Peter] You did the right thing in cutting the rope. Any good climber woud've. If Royce had had the knife, hed've done it himself.

Clarice Starling: Excuse me. Excuse me, gentlemen. You officers and gentlemen, listen here now. There's things we need to do for her. I know that y'all brought her this far and her folks would thank you if they could for your kindness and your sensitivity, but now please go on now and let us take care of her. Go on now. Thank you. Thank you.

Jack Crawford: [on the phone] OK, good. Yeah, that's right. Elk River. Stand by for transmission.

Jack Crawford: Be very careful with Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Chilton at the asylum will go over all the physical procedures used with him. Do not deviate from them for any reason whatsoever. And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head. Just do your job, but never forget what he is.

Clarice Starling: And what is that?

Dr. Chilton: Oh, he's a monster. Pure psychopath. So rare to capture one alive. From a research point of view, Lecter is our most prized asset.

Dr. Chilton: Crawford is very clever, isn't he, using you?

Clarice Starling: What do you mean, sir?

Dr. Chilton: A pretty young woman to turn him on. I don't believe Lecter's even seen a woman in eight years. And, oh, are you ever his taste. So to speak.

Gloria Russell: What do I do?

Bill Burton: Nothing. Because he's making a terrible mistake. He thinks he has time. He doesn't. Seth Frank's too good. He'll bring him in.

Gloria Russell: Then what?

Tim Collin: Then I kill him.

Gloria Russell: He's got the letter opener. Blood. Fingerprints. Jesus... Think what he can do.

Bill Burton: The man's a thief. A thief who witnessed a murder.

Gloria Russell: Allen, did you have sex with her?

Allen Richmond: I... I don't know.

Gloria Russell: Bill, I need you to examine her.

Bill Burton: I'm no gynecologist.

Gloria Russell: I just made you one!

Bill Burton: Oh, Christ...

Bill Burton: Miss Russell, I should've called the police that night but I was weak. You convinced me to stay silent. I regret that. Know this: every time I see your face, I wanna rip your throat out.