Volcano 1997 quotes

Amy

How fast can you get to the corner of Wilshire and Western, we got a problem.

Mike

No, no. Not anymore. We have it stopped.

Amy

The volume of ash coming down is way too high to think that we're out of danger.

Mike

So, why did it just stop?

Amy

Well, maybe it didn't, maybe it just went someplace else.

Mike

So, how do you know it didn't stop?

Amy

You know, I don't. But when Mount Saint Helens blew, the force was twenty seven thousand times greater then that of the Hiroshima bomb. Do you think that vent released anywhere near that much energy yet?

Mike

No.

Amy

Well, lets just assume that we haven't seen the real bulk of the magma yet, okay? Trust me, get down here. [hangs up the phone] Shit.

Amy

Sometimes magma can find one of those fissures and rise up through it.

Mike

What's magma?

Lava.

Mike

Lava? Right here in L.A?

Amy

It is one of the possibilities.

Mike

We have a history of that here in the downtown area?

Parícutin...1943 a Mexican farmer sees smoke coming out of the middle of his cornfield. A week later there's a volcano a thousand feet high. There's no history of anything until it happens. Then there is.

Anita

Yeah, well, I'm doing him a favor, a big favor. I'm gonna miss my class. [phone rings and Anita picks it up] Hello? Mike! Oh, fine; a perfect little ray of sunshine like I was after my parents separated. Every couple of minutes her head comes off her shoulders, rotates 360 degrees, and then she starts watching TV again.

Hey, man, you know what they say. No pain, no gain.

Oh-oh, we're cool now. It's LAPD.

Hey, officer! How about giving us a ride back to civilization please?

What's up? You gonna come out or what? It's our 'hood!

Terry Jasper

Hey, you wanna calm down and tell me what this is all about?

You wanna get outta my face?

Terry Jasper

Hey, if I'm in your face, you’re gonna know it, all right; bro?

Huh, right!

Chief Sindelar

Gonna be delayed. My damn car's stuck behind the damn gate cos we have no damn power!

Chief Sindelar

Tell him he's not in Kansas anymore.

Emmit

You're not in Kansas anymore Mike.

Mike

St. Louis, I'm not in St. Louis.

Emmit

St. Louis, he's not in St. Louis.

Sindelar

I don't give a shit where's he's not! He has a desk now; that's where...

Emmit

You have a desk; that's where you work.

Kelly

Rock beats scissor and scissor beats paper.

I'm not paper; I'm lava. What beats that?

Kelly

This is rock paper scissors you little bitch! So now, I'm gonna beat YOU.

Mike

I can't leave you here after an earthquake.

Kelly Roark

Why not? I'm 13 years old. I know what to do.

Mike

OK. What do you do?

Kelly

Get in the door frame, stick your head between your knees, and kiss your ass goodbye.

Mike

If a dam breaks somewhere, the Mayor calls, I don't want you telling her Roark went fishing.

Emmit

Look, see, the mayor's in Aspen, okay? We don't pull her off of the slopes for only a 4.9. Besides, I'd cover for you.

Mike

I'm sure you would. You look very comfortable sitting behind my desk talking on my telephone.

Emmit

Yeah, it's kinda like I belong there or something.

I can't. I can't.

Kevin

It's only couple of sentences, maybe a question or two.

Then you do it!

Kevin

When the ground moves, people wanna hear from a seismologist, not a pencil pusher.

If I go up there, I am gonna throw up.

Kevin

I don’t think that’s gonna send the sense of calm we're looking for.

Amy

Hey, you guys didn't feel anything this morning, did you?

Kevin

You're off the hook, Flash.

Amy

Oh, you weren't gonna make her talk to those nasty reporters, were you?

I got some stuff I wanna show you later.

Amy

Okay.

Roger Lapher

Freak accident on a storm drain job. They hit a steam pocket and got scalded. No fires, no explosions, no continuing threat. We'll copy you on a report.

Roger

Didn't you hear me? I said the lights are out in San Francisco.

L.A. Fire Chief

But this street's on fire. Nobody gives a shit about San Francisco!

Roger

You're not happy unless you’re declaring an emergency, are you!

Mike

No, actually I enjoy motor sports, music and the company of close friends…sir.

Stan Olber

30,000 people think they're taking the train home tonight. What am I supposed to do for them?

Mike

Put on extra buses.

Stan

It's his mess. Let him take the shit for it.

Roger

You're not happy unless you’re declaring an emergency, are you!