The Day After Tomorrow Quotes

Jack Hall: [on Sam failing calculus] I'm not angry. I'm disappointed.
Sam Hall: Do you wanna hear my side of it?
Jack Hall: Sam, how can there be two sides?
Sam Hall: Hey, look, I got every question right on the final and the only reason why Mr. Spengler failed me was because I didn't write out the solutions.

Jack Hall: Why not?
Sam Hall: I do them in my head.
Jack Hall: Did you tell him that?
Sam Hall: I did. He didn't believe me. He said if he couldn't do them in his head then I must be cheating.
Jack Hall: Well, that's ridiculous! How can he fail you for being smarter than he is?

Sam Hall: That's what I said.
Jack Hall: [smirks] You did? How'd he take it?
Sam Hall: He flunked me, remember?

Vice President Becker: I don't accept that abandoning half of the country is necessary.
Gomez: Maybe if you would've listened to him sooner, it wouldn't be.
Vice President Becker: Bullshit! It's easy for him to suggest this plan. He's safely here in Washington.
Gomez: His son is in Manhattan. I just thought

you should know that before you start questioning his motives.

Library Security Guard: [as Brian works on a radio] Maybe you should have somebody help with that, you know?
Brian Parks: Sir, I am president of the Electronics Club, the Math Club, and the Chess Club. Now, if there's a bigger nerd in here, please... point him out.
Library Security Guard: ...I'll just leave you alone to work on it,

then.

Jeremy: Friedrich Nietzsche! We cannot burn Friedrich Nietzsche; he was the most important thinker of 19th Century!
Elsa: Oh, please! Nietzsche was a chauvinist pig who was in love with his sister.
Jeremy: He was not a chauvinist pig.
Elsa: But he was in love with his sister.
Brian

Parks: Uh... 'scuse me? You guys? Yeah... there's a whole section on tax law down here that we can burn.

Laura Chapman: I'm fine... s'can't sleep... My mind keeps going over all those worthless Decathlon facts.
Sam Hall: Mm.
Laura Chapman: 'S pretty stupid, huh?
Sam Hall: No, it's alright. I guess you just haven't had time to adjust yet.
Laura Chapman: How'm I supposed to adjust, Sam?

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.
Sam Hall: No, no... No I just, I just said that to avoid admitting the truth.
Laura Chapman: The truth about what?

Sam Hall: ...About w-why I joined the team... I joined it because of you.

Elsa: What've you got there?
Jeremy: The Gutenberg Bible. It was in the Rare Books Room.
Elsa: Think God's gonna save you?
Jeremy: No. I don't believe in God.
Elsa: You're holding on to that Bible pretty tight.
Jeremy: I'm protecting it.
[pause as Elsa

glances at J.D. throwing books on the fire]
Jeremy: 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.
[Elsa gives a light snort]
Jeremy: You can laugh... but if Western civilization is finished... I'm gonna' save at least

one little piece of it.

Jack Hall: Our climate is fragile. At the rate we're polluting the environment and burning fossil fuels, the ice caps will soon disappear.
Vice President Becker: Professor Hall, our economy is every bit as fragile as the environment. Perhaps you should keep that in mind before making sensationalist claims.
Jack Hall: Well, the last

chunk of ice that broke off was the size of the state of Rhode Island. Some people might call that pretty sensational.

President Blake: What exactly are you proposing, Professor?
Jack Hall: Evacuate everyone south of that line.
President Blake: What about the people in the North?
Jack Hall: I'm afraid it's too late for them. If they go outside, the storm will kill them. At this point, their best chance is to stay inside. Try

to ride it out. Pray.