The Day After Tomorrow (2004) · 58 quotes
Tied for 8th most-quoted character in The Day After Tomorrow (2004): in 3 of its 58 quotes
Here it is. Oh, this fireplace probably hasn't been used in about a hundred years.
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?
Friedrich Nietzsche? We cannot burn Friedrich Nietzsche! He was the most important thinker of the 19th century!
Oh, please! Nietzsche was a chauvinist pig who was in love with his sister.
He was not a chauvinist pig!
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.
What have you got there?
A Gutenberg Bible. It was in the rare books room.
You think God's gonna save you?
No, I don't believe in God.
You're holding onto that bible pretty tight.
I'm protecting it. [Glares at Sam] 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.
