The Day After Tomorrow (2004) - Quotes

Taglines: Whoever Said "Tomorrow Is Another Day"...Didn't Check The Weather.

Taglines: This Year, A Sweater Won't Do.

Taglines: Nature Has Spoken.

Taglines: 10,000 Years Ago, One Storm Changed The Face Of Our Planet. On May 28, It Will Happen Again.

Taglines: Where Will You Be?

Elsa: What have you got there?

Jeremy: A Gutenberg Bible. It was in the rare books room.

Elsa: You think God's gonna save you?

Jeremy: No, I don't believe in God.

Elsa: You're holding onto that Bible pretty tight.

Jeremy: [glares at Sam] I'm protecting it. This Bible is the first book ever printed. It represents the dawn of the Age of Reason. As far as I'm concerned, the written word is mankind's greatest achievement. You can laugh. But if Western civilization is finished, I'm gonna save at least one little piece of it.

Dennis: Sorry mates, but we've just about run out of petrol.

Simon: [grabs a bottle of Scotch] Hey. Is there any chance that it will run on this?

Terry Rapson: [Simon pours the scotch into three glasses] Are you mad? That's a 12-year-old Scotch!

Simon: Gentlemen. To England.

Rapson: To Mankind.

Dennis: [[w:Manchester United|Manchester United; They drink] To ]!

Simon: [remembers his infant son] I just ... I just wish I could have seen him grow up, you know?

Rapson: [The last of the petroleum fuel burns out, and the power fails] The important thing is that he will grow up.

Dennis: [softly] Amen.

General Pierce: We use the same approach with triage on the battlefield. Sometimes, it's necessary to make difficult choices.

Vice-President Becker: I don't accept that abandoning half the country is necessary!

Tom Gomez: Maybe if you would have listened to him sooner, it wouldn't be.

Becker: Oh, bullshit. It's easy for him to suggest this plan; he's safely here in Washington!

Tom: [Long pause] His son is in Manhattan. I just thought you should know that before you start questioning his motives.

Terry Rapson: Jack, were you able to recreate the thermal cycle?

Jack Hall: Yes. The storm's rotation is pulling super-cooled air from the upper troposphere.

Rapson: But, shouldn't the air warm up before it reaches ground level?

Hall: It should, but it doesn't; the air is descending too rapidly.

Rapson: Is this an isolated incident?

Hall: I'm afraid not. We've located two other supercells in addition to the one over Scotland. There's one over northern Canada, and another one over Siberia.

Rapson: And do we know their projected path?

Hall: [Shows the projected size and location of the storms, over a layout of the continents to Rapson via their computer connection; Shows the next image; last image shows the storms having expanded to have combined to cover the entire planet's surface] Yes. Our previous estimates of 6-8 weeks weren't even close. This one storm is going to change the face of our planet. Here's a projection of 24 hours out. This is 48 hours out... And in 7 to 10 days. When this storm is over, we'll be in a new Ice Age.

Rapson: ...My God.

Hall: Professor, I think it's time you got out of there.

Terry Rapson: I'm afraid that time has come and gone, my friend.

Hall: ...What can we do?

Rapson: Save as many as you can.

Terry Rapson: [Over the phone] What I'm about to tell you is supposed to be confidential. Several hours ago, three helicopters went down over Scotland. They crashed because the fuel in their lines froze.

Jack Hall: At what temperature does-

Rapson: -150° Fahrenheit. I mean, we had to look it up! The temperature dropped phenomenally fast! On the ground, people froze before they could get out of their cars!

Hall: Can you get me a satellite picture of Scotland two hours ago?

Janet: Yeah.

Rapson: We've got mountains of data, but nowhere near enough computer power to analyze it. Can you help us?

Hall: Send us what you've got, we'll do our best.

Rapson: [hangs up] Thanks, Jack. Bye for now.

Janet: This is Scotland at the time the temperature dropped.

Hall: This thing looks just like a hurricane.

Janet: Only hurricanes don't form over land.

Thomas "Tom" Gomez: Booker! What's going on, here?

Booker: [Gomez, Jack and Janet head down to the TVs to get a look] They just issued a tornado warning in Los Angeles.

FOX Anchorman: Breaking news as we prepare to go live to Los Angeles: mixed reports of some extreme weather occuring in the area.

Booker: Report just came in.

FOX Anchorman: All right, we're going to our FOX affiliate in Los Angeles.

FOX Anchorwoman: We have live coverage now from our FOX 11 chopper. Are you there, Bart?

Bart: [describes events] Yes, I'm here. These tornadoes are forming so fast... Oh, oh my God! Lisa, are you getting this on camera? This tornado just erased the Hollywood Sign! The Hollywood sign is gone; it's just shredded!

FOX Anchorwoman: Bart, what can you see, is anyone hurt?

Terry Rapson: This is very odd. There's a buoy here registering a thirteen-degree drop in ocean temperature.

Simon: Oh, yeah, that's right. That buoy malfunctioned the other day. I'll put a call in, see if there are any ships near George's Bank to get it.

Rapson: This buoy isn't in George's Bank. It's just off Greenland.

Simon: [zooms the map out to show both buoys flashing] It is? What are the odds of two buoys failing?

Rapson: [A third one in a different area begins flashing] Remote. Make that three.

Vice-President Raymond Becker: [[w:Kyoto Protocol|Kyoto accord] And who's going to pay the price of the ]? It would cost the world's economy hundreds of billions of dollars.

Hall: With all due respect, Mr. Vice-President, the cost of doing nothing could be even higher. Our climate is fragile. At the rate we're burning fossil fuels and polluting the environment, the ice caps will soon disappear.

Becker: Professor, uh, Hall, our economy is every bit as fragile as the environment. Perhaps you should keep that in mind before making sensationalist claims.

Hall: [Attendees chuckle] Well, the last chunk of ice that broke off was about the size of the state of Rhode Island. Some people might call that pretty sensational.

Vice-President Raymond Becker: [addressing as President] These past few weeks have left us all with a profound sense of humility in the face of nature's destructive power. For years, we operated under the belief that we could continue consuming our planet's natural resources, without consequence. We were wrong. I was wrong. The fact that my first address to you comes from a consulate on foreign soil is a testament to our changed reality. Not only Americans, but people all around the globe have become guests in the nations we once called the Third World'. In our time of need, they have taken us in and sheltered us, and I am deeply grateful for their hospitality. ... For days now, we have despaired about the fate of the people who are trapped in the North. Today, there is cause for hope. Only a few hours ago, I received word that a small group of people survived in New York City, against all odds and in the face of tremendous adversity. I've ordered an immediate search-and-rescue mission to bring them home - and to look for more survivors.

Vice-President Raymond Becker: [Deleted scene; upon learning the Mexicans have closed the US-Mexico border to Americans crossing over, suggesting military action to force an opening] What about them? America is built on land stolen from the Indians, so is Mexico. The only claim nations have on the land they hold is force.

Jack Hall: [in deleted scene, when asked by Jason Evans what will happen to humanity] Well, mankind survived the last Ice Age. We are certainly capable of surviving this one. The only question is, will we learn from our mistakes? I sure as hell would like a chance to learn from mine.