137 quotes found
"Manny: My scythe--I like to keep it next to where my heart used to be."
"Manny: This <*object*> looks like it's about to fall apart."
"Glottis: I am an elemental spirit summoned from the Land of the Dead itself, given one purpose, one skill, one desire... to DRIVE!!"
"Manny: I can't go strolling through the halls now...I'm on the lam!"
"Salvador: Viva la Revolución!"
"Copal: MANNY! YOU COULDN'T FIND A SALE AT A YACHT CLUB!!!"
"Manny: Sorry for the wait Mr. Flores, I am ready to take you now."
"Copal: All right you boneheads, thank your lucky stars and get to your freakin' cars! We have a mass poisoning on our hands! Too many dead to assign specific cases, so all clients are FIRST COME FIRST SERVE! So, let's see some hustle out there!"
"Manny: Better take these cards-- it looks like a long day of solitaire for me."
"Manny: My boss is always giving me these motivational sales books... "They Bought the Farm, Now Sell Them the Cows," stuff like that."
"Manny: Ah the old files, the old clients, the glory days..."
"Manny: {when looking at the door to Manny's office} Wasn't too long ago that the name on the door was, "Supply Closet.""
"Manny: {when using Domino's door} Domino's door is locked. Probably scared I'll steal one of his files. Not a bad idea, actually."
"Manny: {when looking at Copal's door} Ah, the big, golden door to mediocre management."
"Manny: It's my boss' secretary, Eva."
"Manny: {to Eva} I forget... am I supposed to be somewhere right now?"
"Manny: {to Eva} What if we just skipped town tonight? You and me, baby!"
"Manny: {to Eva} Well, enough about me. What's your job like?"
"Manny: Why do some clients qualify for better travel packages?"
"Manny: {to Eva} Any messages for me?"
"Manny: {to Eva} Where is everybody?"
"Manny: {to Eva} So... you going to the Christmas party?"
"Manny: {when trying to pick up the hole punch} Could I take your hole punch?"
"Manny: Mind if I use your hole punch?"
"Manny: {when looking at the big sign in front of the D.O.D.} I remember the year they built that... Mostly because it cost so much we didn't get bonuses that year."
"Manny: It looks like a rope..."
"Manny: It's the festival of the Day of the Dead. Really more of a living person's holiday, but we play along."
"Manny: The Bread of the Dead."
"Manny: I'll just take a little more bread, to honor the dead."
"Balloon twister: I can do anything. I can do birds, amphibians, famous poets--Go ahead. Name one."
"Manny: {to the balloon twister} Could you teach me how to do that?"
"Manny: {to the balloon twister} Practicing what?"
"Manny: {to the balloon twister} Some festival, eh?"
"Manny: Bound only by the paper-thin wrappings of mortality, a soul here lies, struggling to be free. And so it shall, thanks to a bowl of bad gazpacho, and a man named...Calavera."
"Bruno: {upon meeting Manny for the first time} Nice bath-robe"
"Manny: {to Glottis} Hey, you a driver?"
"Manny: Glottis... Glottis... Is that a German name?"
"Manny: {to Glottis} You're not too big. The cars are just too small."
"Manny: Those pictures come with the frames?"
"Manny: {to Domino} I wanna punch you in the mouth."
"Manny: {to Domino} What happened at the Christmas party?"
"Manny: {to Domino} I wanna tell you something."
"Manny: Can I have one of your clients?"
"Manny: Why do you get all the good clients?"
"Manny: Look at all the diplomas!"
"Manny: I think Dom would call the company shrink if I left through the window."
"Tube-switcher guy: Grmmmble, grrr... You and your fancy suits and your nose holes way up in the air... Sticking your empty beer bottles down the message tubes, how fancy is that? Huh? Don't you boys upstairs realize the tube switcher is a sophisticated and delicate piece of machinery?"
"Manny: What's so special about you?"
"Manny: Just curious--How'd you get in there?"
"Manny: Hey, I'm still not getting any messages."
"Manny: As a rule, I never touch anything more sophisticated and delicate than myself."
"Manny: Buenos dias."
"Manny: Are you SURE you're Mercedes Colomar?"
"Manny: Did you kill much when you were alive?"
"Manny: Anything about your past you haven't told me?"
"Manny: {when trying to pick up Meche} I don't like to get involved with the customers that way."
"Manny: Who's out there?"
"Manny: What are they going to do to me?"
"Salvador: {to Manny} Young man, you are an enemy of the Department of Death! Welcome to the club!"
"Manny: You're keeping me here because you need the eggs?"
"Manny: It's my boss' secretary's evil twin!"
"Manny: Have you thought about using messages tied to balloons? I can get you plenty of balloons."
"Salvador: {to Manny, about Meche} Manuel? Are you... in love with her?"
"Manny: I don't have a net, or a desire to have a pet pigeon."
"Manny: I just locked an open door. Strange, yet symbolically compelling."
"Manny: He doesn't even HIDE his booze in a file cabinet. What kind of salesman is he?"
"Manny: I'm going to try to guess his password..."
"Manny: I prefer to eat out of clean dishes that aren't nailed to the roof."
"Manny: You must come with me, young ones, for I am the Grim Reaper."
"Manny: {after seeing the "improvements" Glottis made to his car} Glottis! Are you loco? What got into you? That was a company car!"
"Manny: {trying to scare off a flock of pigeons with a balloon shaped like Robert Frost's head} Run you pigeons, it's Robert Frost!"
"Glottis: Uh-oh! Crazy road! Too crazy for the Bone Wagon!"
"Glottis: Manny, I don't know if I like driving over people."
"Manny: {when looking at pile of bones} It's an ugly pile of bones, like me."
"Manny: These spiders have Glottis' heart in their web!"
"Manny: Oh, poor spiders. No more demon heart to eat."
"Manny: Wanna go for a ride?"
"Glottis: Manny, until now we scraped along the ground like rats, but from now on, we soar! Like eagles! Yeah! LIKE EAGLES...ON...POGO STICKS!!!"
"Manny: {while Glottis is showing off the Bone Wagon's new shocks} What a relief. I was getting concerned that our transportation wasn't ostentatious enough."
"Manny: {when falling into the Sea of Lament} Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
"Glottis: {Glottis and Velasco about the Bone Wagon} Well, actually, it's mostly stock, with a few mods here and there..."
"Velasco: You folks gonna stay in Rubacava for a spell?"
"Manny: How do you get around here with all the mist?"
"Manny: {to Celso} What are you doing here?"
"Manny: I'll help you find your wife. What did she look like?"
"Manny: {when looking at the photo of Celso's wife} It's Celso's wife--Actually I don't think skin would help."
"Manny: So, know a good place to stay in town?"
"Velasco: Look, I know how you feel son. Once I lost a very special lady myself. I waved to her from the docks as she sailed out of port and I never saw her again."
"Celso: Oh, Manny. Is there a greater constant in nature than the treachery of women?"
"Manny: Think she'll come in tonight?"
"Manny: How's the flow tonight?"
"Manny: {looks at Velasco} That Dockmaster Velasco is one salty old bag of rope."
"Manny: {when looking at the croupier at Manny's casino} An honest roulette croupier is hard to find..."
"Manny: {when looking at the gamblers in the casino} Ah, my bread and butter..."
"Manny: Why aren't you over at the roulette tables?"
"Manny: Tell me your system, Charlie."
"Manny: I think slot machines attract an undesirable element."
"Manny: I had no idea you liked gambling so much, Glottis."
"Manny: {when trying to pick up the moon} Don't have that kind of equipment."
"Manny: {looks at the moon} It shone, pale as bone / as I stood there alone. / And I thought to myself how the moon..."
"Manny: {looks at the locked gate near SS Limbo} It's locked."
"Manny: {when the player attempts to use a pile of dirty dishes} Not to sound like a capitalist oppressor, but I have people who do that for me now."
"Olivia Ofrenda: [reading a poem] With bony hands I hold my partner/ On soulless feet we cross the floor/ The music stops as if to answer/ An empty knocking at the door/ It seems his skin was sweet as mango/ When last I held him to my breast/ But now we dance this grim fandango/ And will four years before we rest."
"Manny: [at open mic night] Testing...check one...check two....Alright! WHO'S READY TO ROCK AND ROLL?!"
"Manny: Anyone know where I can find some tools?"
"Carla: {to Manny} Why is it all men are after the same thing - except you?!"
"Manny: Don't you ever worry that your job is getting to you, Membrillo?"
"Slisko: You smell like bacon and oppression, man."
"Glottis: {after getting thrown out of the cat track} Hey, come on! You gotta let me back in! I'M A VIP!"
"Manny: {when trying to pick up Glottis} We're underwater--we're not on the moon."
"Manny: Glottis! Do something!"
"Manny: {to Chepito} Amigo!"
"Manny: {to Chepito} Could you send for help?"
"Manny: {to Chepito} Is everything okay with your eyebrows?"
"Manny: {to Chepito} How long have you been down here?"
"Manny: Why are you walking instead of taking a ship?"
"Manny: How do you know where you're going?"
"Manny: Hey kiddles, check out my BONE SAW!"
"{Manny opens the cage door}"
"Manny: {to the Angelitos} I'm the one who's going to take Meche out of here."
"Manny: {after closing the vault door} Oh, Raoul... I'm so, so sorry!"
"Domino: I don't believe you Calavera, you're losing a fight so you pick on one of my pets?! Why aren't you more like me Manny? I've been trying to show you how but you don't listen! If you'd just adopt the proper attitude, just look what could happen to you! (is dragged into coral grinder) AAAAAAAAAGHH!!!!"
"Manny: (Examining the booby-trapped Bone Wagon) About to be known as the 'Blown Wagon'."
"Glottis: LUMBAAAGOOO LEMONAAADE!"
"Hector: Listen to me once and for all, Bowlsley: You are not a florist! You are a manufacturer of weapons!"
"Manny: Listen, Bowlsley, I'm not here to hurt you..."
"{Manny tries to pick up the boxes at Bowlsley's hideout}"
"Manny: I'm not touching any of these human remains."
"Manny: {upon riding the Neon cat sign, also while being attacked by a skull raven not long before} Ayyyyyyyy chihuhahuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
"Manny: You have a really bad taste for men."
"Hector: She loves me, she loves me not..."
"Hector: Oh Manny... so cynical... What happened to you, Manny, that caused you to lose your sense of hope, your love of life?"
"Hector: I guess Domino was right - you don't have a shred of optimism"
"{Manny shoots at the greenhouse window}"
"Manny: Hmmm... Hector supplies water to keep the flowers alive? Does he see them as a memorial, or as trophies?"
"Meche: Manny, when we get to the other side, will we still be together?"
"Tim [Schafer] leads more by inspiring than by directing. (Grim Fandango music composer Peter McConnell talking about the leadership style during the development of the game)"