Sliders Quotes
"Rembrandt Lee "Crying Man" Brown: I didn't mind killing him. I might have a twinge of guilt about killing you, but then again, maybe not.
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Prof. Maximillian P. Arturo: I have never seen such vermin as what passes itself off for human on this world.
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Prof. Maximillian P. Arturo: [Quinn punches a bad guy] Tis better to give than to receive.
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Prof. Maximillian P. Arturo: [after coffee is spilt all over him] Drink it, don't carry it, you idiot!
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Prof. Maximilian Arturo: Mr. Bennish. Appalling as this thought may be, you and I are going to be spending a lot of time together.
Conrad Bennish, Jr.: No way, chief! I've got a girlfriend.
Prof. Maximilian Arturo: Don't be an idiot! You and I are going to make an atom bomb.
Conrad Bennish, Jr.: No way, chief! I've got a girlfriend.
Prof. Maximilian Arturo: Don't be an idiot! You and I are going to make an atom bomb.
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Prof. Maximilian Arturo: The answer to the question is U-4, not U2, Mr. Bennish! [pointing to Conrad Bennish, Jr., who was listening to noisy music without paying any attention to the class].
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[after Prof. Maximilian Arturo found out that he is a Citizen General in a world where Soviet Russia rules America]
Prof. Maximilian Arturo: Always a leader of men, no matter what the circumstances.
Prof. Maximilian Arturo: Always a leader of men, no matter what the circumstances.
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Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown: This guy, Q-ball, he’s got this, like, gizmo, which sucked up my Caddie into a worm-hole — that’s this kinda freaked-out limbo land that sits between Earth’s One, Two and Three. So when we got to Earth Two, this big, albino tornado, man, came hammering down on us...
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Prof. Maximilian Arturo: Biology is for those who don't have the maths for real science.
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[a news anchor talks about the asteroid that is about to destroy life on Earth]
News Anchor: Around the globe, the world braced for the apocalypse with an unprecedented show of peace and amity. In Belfast, Ireland, Catholics and Protestants shared a morning of prayer [footage of both groups praying together]. Elsewhere, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the six-month truce between Serbs and Muslims continued to hold [footage of both groups hanging along]. Not so in the occupied West Bank, however, where Israelis and Palestinians greeted the second-to-last day with renewed violence [footage of both groups fighting each other].
News Anchor: Around the globe, the world braced for the apocalypse with an unprecedented show of peace and amity. In Belfast, Ireland, Catholics and Protestants shared a morning of prayer [footage of both groups praying together]. Elsewhere, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the six-month truce between Serbs and Muslims continued to hold [footage of both groups hanging along]. Not so in the occupied West Bank, however, where Israelis and Palestinians greeted the second-to-last day with renewed violence [footage of both groups fighting each other].
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[after Prof. Maximilian Arturo was forced to slide just as he realized his stolen atom bomb plans were stolen from him]
Conrad Bennish Jr.: Anybody messes with us now...
[turns on loud music]
Conrad Bennish Jr.: ...boom!
Conrad Bennish Jr.: Anybody messes with us now...
[turns on loud music]
Conrad Bennish Jr.: ...boom!
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Prof. Maximilian Arturo: The reason the sun never sets on the British Empire is because God doesn't trust the British in the dark.
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Quinn Mallory: [pointing at the recurring character of his usually long haired, sunglasses wearing college friend, whose double in this world is a business suit wearing Republican] Look, Professor, it's Bennish.
Prof. Maximilian Arturo: My God. And I can actually see his ears.
Prof. Maximilian Arturo: My God. And I can actually see his ears.
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Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown: How much did he win by?
Wade Welles: I don't know. What difference does it make?
Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown: It makes a big difference, girl! I got Harvard plugged to points!
Wade Welles: You bet on a game that you don't understand?
[Short pause]
Wade Welles: You are an idiot!
Wade Welles: I don't know. What difference does it make?
Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown: It makes a big difference, girl! I got Harvard plugged to points!
Wade Welles: You bet on a game that you don't understand?
[Short pause]
Wade Welles: You are an idiot!
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The Gambler: If you won't do it you'll be MORAS MAXIMA.
Quinn Mallory: What?!
The Gambler: MORAS, MORTIS, DEAD!!!
Quinn Mallory: What?!
The Gambler: MORAS, MORTIS, DEAD!!!
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Prof. Maximilian Arturo: [after being mistaken for Luciano Pavarotti] Mr. Pavarotti is an Italian. He speaka likea this. Do I speaka likea this? No. Why? Because I am an Englishman, you blistering idiot!
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Prof. Maximilian Arturo: That which is beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
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Quinn: This is newsprint. How do you divide?
Fire: I have never divided.
Quinn: You stay connected with the other flames?
Fire: I am always one. What they know, I know.
Quinn: Alright, this is wood and graphite.
Fire: Oh I like wood...
Quinn: Listen, there's something important I have to talk about.
Fire: Yes?
Quinn: Very soon, we might be leaving this place and we might have to take you with us.
Fire: I like it here. There is much to burn.
Quinn: If you stay, they will try and destroy you every time you feed. If you survive, you'll only do so by destroying things that we humans care about, and hurting people like me. And one day, all the food will be gone.
Fire: I have decided I will go back where you found me.
Quinn: I'm sorry, I don't know how to get you there.
Fire: I do.
Quinn: Oh, you do. I wish you could tell me how to get home.
Fire: Home?
Quinn: It's a place where we'd like to go someday. It's where we started.
Fire: Where you like to burn?
Quinn: Sort of.
Fire: If you release me in your journey, I will find a way.
Quinn: But.. how?
Fire: Photon solar wave propulsion, and timeslip dimensional access.
Quinn: Come again?
Quinn: You're controlling the television!
Quinn: You can transmit signal waves?
Fire: You do not?
Quinn: No!
Fire: Why have you taken this limited life form?
Quinn: I didn't have a choice.. you did?
[Knock at the door]
Quinn: Go away! We're spraying for cockroaches.
Fire: I have never divided.
Quinn: You stay connected with the other flames?
Fire: I am always one. What they know, I know.
Quinn: Alright, this is wood and graphite.
Fire: Oh I like wood...
Quinn: Listen, there's something important I have to talk about.
Fire: Yes?
Quinn: Very soon, we might be leaving this place and we might have to take you with us.
Fire: I like it here. There is much to burn.
Quinn: If you stay, they will try and destroy you every time you feed. If you survive, you'll only do so by destroying things that we humans care about, and hurting people like me. And one day, all the food will be gone.
Fire: I have decided I will go back where you found me.
Quinn: I'm sorry, I don't know how to get you there.
Fire: I do.
Quinn: Oh, you do. I wish you could tell me how to get home.
Fire: Home?
Quinn: It's a place where we'd like to go someday. It's where we started.
Fire: Where you like to burn?
Quinn: Sort of.
Fire: If you release me in your journey, I will find a way.
Quinn: But.. how?
Fire: Photon solar wave propulsion, and timeslip dimensional access.
Quinn: Come again?
Quinn: You're controlling the television!
Quinn: You can transmit signal waves?
Fire: You do not?
Quinn: No!
Fire: Why have you taken this limited life form?
Quinn: I didn't have a choice.. you did?
[Knock at the door]
Quinn: Go away! We're spraying for cockroaches.
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[Colin Mallory and Maggie Beckett are in a "re-orientation" compound, which resembles 1950's suburbia, they are medicated in a world that mandates it, Maggie has made an attempt at baking, Colin is trying one of her slightly burned cookies, he is attempting to feign enjoyment when eating the cookie]
Colin: Umm, Delicious.
Maggie: You don't like them.
Colin: I do.
Maggie: Colin, you be honest with me.
Colin: But you worked so hard on them, I wouldn't want to hurt your feelings.
[Maggie stares into the view of the camera, thinking about what Colin said]
Maggie: I don't think you could, (shows her "Infuser", a medication dispenser that most on the world they're in are using) not while i'm wearing this thing.
Colin: Oh, I keep forgetting, another benefit of pharmacotherapy, well in that case, these are the worst cookies i've ever tasted!
[They both laugh in a mindless way]
Colin: Umm, Delicious.
Maggie: You don't like them.
Colin: I do.
Maggie: Colin, you be honest with me.
Colin: But you worked so hard on them, I wouldn't want to hurt your feelings.
[Maggie stares into the view of the camera, thinking about what Colin said]
Maggie: I don't think you could, (shows her "Infuser", a medication dispenser that most on the world they're in are using) not while i'm wearing this thing.
Colin: Oh, I keep forgetting, another benefit of pharmacotherapy, well in that case, these are the worst cookies i've ever tasted!
[They both laugh in a mindless way]
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[after Quinn, Rembrandt and Maggie finds out that the ghosts haunting the chandler hotel are really their doubles, a brit-punk rock singer Quinn "Howling Man" Mallory, an "exotic dancer" called Maggie Beckett and a Tweed clad version of Rembrandt Brown, also with them are Colin Mallory and the manager's son, she is crying]
Matthew: Mom, don't cry, Colin said his brother's gonna get out out of here.
Quinn "Howling Man" Mallory: Well, he bloody well better, (holding up the timer) 'cause we've got your little timer, see, and brainiac told us that if you don't get it back before the numbers run down, you're gonna be right up it! (a la Austin Powers) YEAH, baby!
Alt-Rembrandt: Sorry, who thought he was paying attention.
Matthew: Mom, don't cry, Colin said his brother's gonna get out out of here.
Quinn "Howling Man" Mallory: Well, he bloody well better, (holding up the timer) 'cause we've got your little timer, see, and brainiac told us that if you don't get it back before the numbers run down, you're gonna be right up it! (a la Austin Powers) YEAH, baby!
Alt-Rembrandt: Sorry, who thought he was paying attention.
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[a group of Amish-dressed people are coming to attack Colin Mallory]
Quinn Michael Mallory: Great! We're gonna get beat up by the cast of Witness!
Quinn Michael Mallory: Great! We're gonna get beat up by the cast of Witness!
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Wade Kathleen Welles: You bet on a game that you don't understand? You're an idiot!
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Quinn Michael Mallory: [season five opening monologue] What if you found a portal to a parallel universe? What if you could Slide into a thousand different worlds? Where it's the same year, and you're the same person, but everything else is different. And what if you can't find your way home?
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Quinn Michael Mallory: [season one monologue/opening] What if you could find brand new worlds right here on Earth? Where anything is possible. Same planet, different dimension. I've found the gateway.
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Quinn Michael Mallory: [season two opening monologue] What if you could travel to parallel worlds? The same year, the same Earth, only different dimensions. A world where the Russians rule America... or where your dreams of being superstar came true... or where San Francisco was a maximum security prison. My friends and I found the gateway. Now the problem is... finding a way back home.
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