Powder (1995) - Quotes

Exploring Belief and Connection in Powder

Powder: [[thunder; [storm; [lightning; [God; [God; [God; [God] When a comes up, I can feel it inside. When ] comes down, I can feel it wanting to come to me. Grandma said it was ]. She said the white fire was ]. Do you believe in ], Sheriff? That it was ] who took my mother?

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Seeking Truth Beyond Testing and Doubt

Dr. Aaron Stripler: [[Intelligence|I.Q.; [tests; [intellect; [history; [humankind; [understand] Your ] scored right off the charts Jeremy. There isn't even a classification for you it was so high. All of your ] indicate you have the most advanced ] in the ] of ]. Do you ] what I'm saying?

Powder: [[thought; [sense; [need; [believe; [home] If you ] I was that advanced would you ask me if I understood? … You're not here to ask me questions. You're here to find out how I cheated. It's the only way you can make ] of it. It's what you ] to ]. But I don't need you to believe in me, Doctor Stipler, and I'm not interested in any of your tests. I'm not interested in you or anything else here. I'm interested in going ].

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A Fast Learner's Journey with Humor

Jessie: Your grandmother tutored you — did she ever say anything about it?

Powder: [[learner] She said I was a fast ].

Jessie: Yeah, well, I think that's about to fall into the "no shit" category.

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A Difficult Day in the Hospital

Powder: [[remember] The worst day I can ] was in a hospital.

Sheriff Barnum: What day was that?

Powder: [[Birth|born] The day I was ].

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Discussion on Unusual Characteristics of a Suspect

Sheriff Barnum: [[Mary Shelley#Frankenstein .281818.29|Doctor Frankenstein] You telling me the kid electrocuted the old man? What, you think he's ]?

Deputy Harley Duncan: I'm just saying that that's more than albino, Doug — that is spooky.

Sheriff Barnum: I never thought we'd find a man too white for you there, Harley.

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Discussion of Knowledge and Experience

Powder: [[school; [read] I've never been to ]. I've ] about it though.

Jessie: [[books; Picking up a copy of [[Moby-Dick] But, you said you read all these ]? : Have you read this book? … I know college kids who couldn't wade through this one.

Powder: Pick a page.

Jessie: [[whole] You know that ] book?

Powder: [[all; Jessie steps out and gazes at the cellar lined with books] I know them ]. .

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Family Secrets and Community Perception

Sheriff Barnum: [[death; [phantom; [good] He won't come up from the cellar. He didn't report his grandfather's ] either. We already know he died of natural causes. … The neighbors talk about him as if he's some kind of ]. I haven't met one yet that ever had a ] look at him.

Jessie: What are you telling me, Doug?

Sheriff Barnum: [[secret] That the old folks may have kept him down there — like some kind of a family ].

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Questioning Identity and Belonging

John Box: [[fight] There's not much ] in you, is there freak show? You really think you could be like us?

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The Nature of Fear and Belief

John Box: [[Fear|afraid; [lightning] Well, what you know — the boogeyman's ] of ].

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Confrontation and Discontent in Communication

John Box: [[eyes] Don't look at me, man? … Did you hear what I said? … I don't like your ].

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Questioning Appearance and Identity

John Box: [[vampire; [Space|outerspace] Why you look like that? You look like some kind of ] from ] or something.

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Understanding Connection Through Shared Pain

Deputy Harley Duncan: [[hand; [touches; [time; [heart; [feeling; [Self|myself; [Fear|scared shitless; [dark; [dying; [Hell] That kid, he lays his ] on the deer while it's still shaking, and then he ] me at the same ]. Now, I can't figure out why — till my ] starts pounding, and I'm shaking, and I'm ] ] hurt and ], slipping away in the goddamned ]. That's the worst thing I ever felt. Its like I could feel that animal ]. ], it was like I was the goddamned thing.

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Observation of Lighting Rods on the Roof

Deputy Harley Duncan: * Observing the rows of lighting rods on the roof of Powder's grandfather's house.

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Observation on Excessive Rods on a House

Deputy Harley Duncan: [[lightning] You ever see so many goddamned ] rods on one house?

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Conflicting Voices Among the Kids

Sheriff Doug Barnum: [[stories] I got twenty different kids telling me twenty different ].

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Unseen Forces in the Wilderness

Sheriff Doug Barnum: [[Belief|believe] We've got something out here nobody's gonna ].

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Understanding Humanity's Future Through Difference

Donald Ripley: [[Darkness|dark; [kill; [mind; [evolve; [future; [now] We're stumbling around in a very ] age basically trying not to ] each other. So it hurts me when you say "So what?" Because you are not just different, Jeremy, I think you have a ] that we won't ] to for like thousands of years — you're maybe the man of the ] right here and ].

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Unexplained Phenomenon in the Classroom

Donald Ripley: [[science; [human; [electricity; [w:Spark gap#Visual entertainment|Jacob's Ladder] Something's happened here. Something's happened here. I'm telling you, with everything we know, about ], about the makeup of the ] body, what happened in that classroom is impossible. That kid attracted an arc of ] from thirty feet away, and not just from the ], I mean, after a second it was like it was coming out of the whole… building.

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The Nature of Connection and Communication

Donald Ripley: [[Energy; [transforming; [Eternity|never-ending] ], always relaying, always ], and ].

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Understanding the Unseen Connection

Lindsey Kelloway: * Meeting Powder as he attempts to leave town after electricity arced into his body during a school science demonstration.

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Memorable Moments That Leave a Lasting Impact

Lindsey Kelloway: [[light; [People] That was some ]-show. ] are going to be talking about that to their grandkids grandkids around here.

Perception of the Unfamiliar in Innocence

Jessie Caldwell: [[lived; [know; [ideas; [read; [Children|child] I'm telling you. I've never seen anything like him. … Because of the way he's ] — he doesn't seem to ] what things are. I mean, things you and I take for granted, common everyday objects, simple ]. I just don't think he's ever been exposed to them. He's about the most well-] teenage kid you could ever meet, but in other ways, I think he's a lot like a little ].

Confronting Grief and Loss in Silence

Powder: * To Sheriff Doug Barnum, after the death of his wife.

Understanding the Departure of a Loved One

Powder: [[Cosmos|everywhere] She didn't go some place… your wife. I felt her go. Not "away", just "out" — ].

Connecting Thoughts in Moments of Loss

Powder: * To Sheriff Doug Barnum, about his dying wife's thoughts, as he prepares to set up a mind connection between them.

Reconnecting Through Understanding and Acceptance

Powder: [[believes; [miracles; [now; [Angels|angel; [hearts] She says she ] in ] ], and that you should too. … She thinks I'm an ]. Come to take her home, and to bring you and Steven together again, and remind you of how much you still are in each other's ].

Listening to the Inner Voices

Powder: [[listened; [people; [thoughts; [memories] Have you ever ] to ] from the inside? Listened so close you can hear their ] — and all their ]. Hear them think from places they don't even know they think from?

Family Reactions to Uniqueness and Change

Powder: [[Fear|afraid; [Fear|scared] They were ] to touch me after a while — my grandma and grandpa. They got really ].

Desire for Freedom and Friendship

Powder: [[home; [understand; [pretend; [friend; [good] I want to go ]. Do you ] that? I want to go home. … I saw that I don't like what you do. Any of you. … You ] to be my ], the way you pretend everything. A friend doesn't lock you up. A friend doesn't take you away from your home, and say that its for your own ]. How long do you really think I'll let you keep me here?