My seventeen-year-old kid knows more science than him
Perhaps, but your seventeen-year-old kid does not control our budget. It doesn't matter if he hates you.
Jack Hall
Dennis Quaid · 17 quotes
Sam
Jake Gyllenhaal · 11 quotes
Terry Rapson
Ian Holm · 11 quotes
Jason
Dash Mihok · 5 quotes
Tom
Tim Bagley · 5 quotes
Brian
Arjay Smith · 4 quotes
Laura
Emmy Rossum · 4 quotes
Janet
Tamlyn Tomita · 3 quotes
Jeremy
Tom Rooney · 3 quotes
Judith
Sheila McCarthy · 3 quotes
Simon
Adrian Lester · 3 quotes
Vice President Becker
Kenneth Welsh · 3 quotes
Vice-President Raymond Becker
Kenneth Welsh · 2 quotes
Most scenes together: Jack Hall & Terry Rapson (5), Sam & Laura (3), Terry Rapson & Simon (3)
The Day After Tomorrow quotes
Page 2 of 4Professor, It's time you got out of there.
I'm afraid that time has come and gone, my friend.
Save as many as you can.
What I do know, is that if we do not act soon, it is our children and our grandchildren who will have to pay the price.
And who's going to pay the price of the Kyoto accord? It would cost the world's economy hundreds of billions of dollars.
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.
Professor, uh, Hall, our economy is every bit as fragile as the environment. Perhaps you should keep that in mind before making sensationalist claims.
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.
Frank, is he always so obsessive?
Frank Yes
Frank No
What do you think is gonna happen to us?
What do you mean?
I mean us? Civilization? Everybody?
Mankind survived the last Ice Age. We're certainly capable of surviving this one. All it depends on is whether or not we're able to learn from our mistakes.
Jack, we got the results.
Six to eight months? That can't be.
That time scale isn't in months -- it's in weeks.
Friedrich Nietzsche? We cannot burn Friedrich Nietzsche! He was the most important thinker of the 19th century!
Elsa Oh, please! Nietzsche was a chauvinist pig who was in love with his sister.
He was not a chauvinist pig!
Elsa But he was in love with his sister.
Uh, excuse me, you guys? Yeah. There's a whole section on tax law down here that we can burn.
Here it is. Oh, this fireplace probably hasn't been used in about a hundred years.
[He opens the flue, dodging the snow that falls from the chimney.]
Ugh, whoa. Alright. [He starts ripping up books and throwing them in the fireplace]
What are you doing?
What did you think we were going to burn?
You can't burn books!
NO! Absolutely not!
You wanna freeze to death?
Everything I've ever cared about, everything I've worked for, has all been preparation for a future that no longer exists. I know you always thought I took the competition too seriously. You were right. It was all for nothing.
No. No, I just said that to avoid admitting the truth.
The truth about what?
About why I joined the team. I joined it because of you.
Hey, thanks for bringing us here.
J.D. I couldn't let you leave New York without seeing the Natural History Museum.
I've got one. Your favorite vacation?
Besides this one?
Lucy Hall
Can you take him to the airport in the morning?
Sam's getting on a plane?
Lucy Hall
He joined the scholastic decathlon team. They're competing in New York.
Sam joined a team?
Lucy Hall
[Quietly]
Yeah, I think there's a girl involved.
[Sam groans.]
President Blake What exactly are you proposing, professor?
[He draws a line from the middle of California across the US to the Virginias]
Evacuate everyone south of that line.
President Blake What about the people in the north?
I'm afraid it's too late for them. If they go outside, the storm will kill them.
Excuse me, are there any pay-phones on the upper floors?
No, no, no. Uh, but there are some on the mezzanine.
Great. [Walks away]
Oh, but I-I-I think it's all underwater!
The important thing is that he will grow up
Dennis [Softly]
Amen.