All Quotes

"Don't look back!"

"I’ll say that mercy an’ goodness, such as is in you, though they’re the grand things in human nature, can’t be lived up to on this Utah border. Life’s hell out here. You think—or you used to think—that your religion made this life heaven. Mebbe them scales on your eyes has dropped now. Jane, I wouldn’t have you no different, an’ that’s why I’m going to try to hide you somewhere in this Pass. I’d like to hide many more women, for I’ve come to see there are more like you among your people. An’ I’d like you to see jest how hard an’ cruel this border life is. It’s bloody. You’d think churches an’ churchmen would make it better. They make it worse. You give names to things—bishops, elders, ministers, Mormonism, duty, faith, glory. You dream—or you’re driven mad. I’m a man, an’ I know. I name fanatics, followers, blind women, oppressors, thieves, ranchers, rustlers, riders. An’ we have—what you’ve lived through these last months. It can’t be helped. But it can’t last always."

"Nothing real can defeat us. Nothing unreal exists."

"Progress Over Protocol."

"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."

"Live like you're gonna die tomorrow and study like you're gonna live forever."

"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."

"Asking is a polite way of demanding."

"A thousand pities cannot undo one thoughtless act."

"A fool can throw a stone into the water which ten wise men cannot recover."

"The Three Loves: love of others, the love of justice, and the love of freedom."

"The Four Beauties: Mind, Language, Behavior, and Environment"

"I tell ya, if it ain't one thing, it's another."

"{dying words} What are y'all lookin' at? You're on the clock. Let's saddle up, huh?"

"Laugh(a) while you can, monkeyboy!"

"Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife: "Doomed is your soul and damned is your life.""

"History is'a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark."

"Jesú Christo! (It) [M]ake the ganglia TWITCH!"

"Home. Home is where you wear your hat. "I feel so broke up...I want to go Home!""

"May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined."

"{moments before dying in a fiery explosion} Banzai! I'll see you in HELL!!!"

"{repeated line} BigbooTAY!"

"Let's go back up to my office and talk about this like two reasonable beings."

"Put the snot on the track, John O'Connor."

"It's not my goddamn planet. Understand, monkeyboy?"

"{reading from a printed form} "Declaration of War... The Short Form"."

"Buckaroo, I don't know what to say. Lectroids? Planet 10? Nuclear extortion? A girl named "John"?"

"What are you talking about, man? Some kind of race war in New Jersey?"

"Excuse me, Mr. President. Time is short. In order to prevent John Whorfin's escape, my comrades are at this moment takin' up a geostationary position over New Jersey. De situation is explosive!"

"There is little time. You better come quickly if your planet is still important to you."

"Hellooo, Mr. Secretary! {finger flex}"

"Chase One Helicopter Pilot: This is Chase One. We got his tracks. They go right up to a wall of rock. Holy shit!"

"Hospital PA System: Lithium is no longer available on credit."

"Penny Priddy: I think I'm going crazy... Who's that girl, Buckaroo? What's going on around here? You drag me out of jail, you're... you're like Jerry Lewis, you give me hope to carry on, but... then you leave me in the lurch while you strap on your six-guns! What do you want from me, Buckaroo? Who am I?"

"Yoyodyne PA System: The only joy is the joy of duty. Work... work... work... Keep your nose to the grindstone."

"Red Lectroid Spaceship PA System: We are not in the Eighth dimension, we are over New Jersey. Hope is not lost."

"Sign for Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems: The future begins tomorrow."

"From the "Pinky Caruthers Unknown Facts" DVD feature: There is a term sometimes used at the Banzai Institute: The Three Bs, meaning the Bus, the Bath, and the Bed. That is where the greatest discoveries are made in science. When one is at his most relaxed, the most receptive... that is when a foreign consciousness, a "stray bullet" as B. Banzai calls it, may pop into one's head."

"Radio communication: Horizontal velocity is expanding, over."

"It just didn’t get the press or publicity it needed and the picture got lost in the shuffle."

"Beings from Another Dimension have invaded your world."

"You can't see them...but they can see you."

"Your only hope is Buckaroo Banzai."

"Expect the unexpected. He does."

"In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low."

"...the constitution of the universe may be such that the human self and the substance that things [are] made out of, the spatial matter or whatever you call it, are much more inextricably related than we realized."

"...we have so far beset ourselves with rules, and concepts, and ideas of what must be done to make a building or a town alive, that we have become afraid of what will happen naturally, and convinced that we must work within a "system" and with "methods" since without them our surroundings will come tumbling down in chaos."

"A thing is whole according to how free it is of inner contradictions. When it is at war with itself, and gives rise to forces which act to tear it down, it is unwhole. The more free it is of its own inner contradictions, the more whole and healthy and wholehearted it becomes."

"When we know those moments, when we smile, when we let go, when we are not on guard at all – these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it – for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed."

"Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.... These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they [patterns in the space] are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made."