— Do not believe in something simply because you have heard it, Nima.
— But great Lama, Tenzin is my brother. He works inside the tunnel, where the ships are built. But where is in your wisdom, great Lama, if Tenzin is right... what if our world is indeed coming to an end? [Rinpoche responds by pouring tea into Tenzin's cup, causing it to overflow] — It is full, great Rinpoche.
— Like this cup, you are full of opinions and speculations. To see the light of wisdom... you first must empty your cup. [Tosses Nima the truck's keys]
Be careful with the clutch... it tends to slip.
Year:
2009
Country:
USA
Genres:
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.
— Go Jackson, go! [Tries to start the car]
— It won't start! about to drive out from the plane [Everyone panics]
— Shut up, everbody! Engine... start! [Everyone stops screaming]
[seconds before the White House is destroyed] I'm coming home, Dorothy.
— Sir, you don't have the authority.
— Who's got the authority? You? You've got the authority? You couldn't keep your goddamn mouth shut. You betrayed top-secret information last year. Could've had us all killed?
— What the hell are you talking about?
— You told your father everything. Put this entire plan in jeopardy. Good thing for you the old man could keep his mouth shut better than you. Oh, come on. Don't look so shocked. We had to monitor everybody who knew. How do you think we kept it a secret for so long?
— So we just killed people who tried to talk?
— Anybody who tried to talk was not just an enemy of the state, they're an enemy of humanity.
— The Director of the Louvre was an enemy of humanity?
— After he called a press conference, he was! Jesus. What did you think? We're all just gonna get onboard, hold hands and sing "Kumbaya"? Sit down and buckle up.
— You'd have to keep a thing like this underwraps. I mean, just think about it, okay? First, the stock market would go. Then the economy, boom! The dollar, boom! And then pandemonium in the streets. War, genocide, ba-ba-ba-ba, boom, boom, boom!
— Bullshit. Nobody could keep that big a secret, Charlie. Somebody would blow the whistle.
— And every once in a while, some poor little sucker tries. Well, like these guys, boom, boom! [pulls down a screen of posted obituaries] Every one of these guys, dead, dead, dead.
— [notices one of them] Whoa, whoa, whoa! That's Professor Meyers.
— He ran the Atlantis shuttle program. Why, did you know him?
— Yeah, he helped me with research on my book.
— Well, that must have been before this "accident."
— Meyers is dead?
— Oh, two months ago. He was one of my most avid listeners and he had it all figured out. Everything the government was doing, where and why... He even sent me a map.
— A map for what Charlie? What's the map for?
— They're building spaceships, man.
— Shit, man, I have to go because I gotta get back to Earth.
— [standing in the Oval Office] I was wrong.
— Do you know how many times I've heard those words in this office? Zero.
— My fellow Americans. This will be the last time I address you. As you know, catastrophe has struck our nation... has struck the world. I wish I could tell you we can prevent the coming destruction. We cannot. Today, none of us are strangers. Today, we are one family, stepping into the darkness together. We are a nation of many religion, but I believe these words reflect the spirit of all our faiths. The Lord is my shepherd...
— Impact warning. Thirty degrees west. Forty-five degrees east. Target elevation, 29,035 feet.[Ark Computer: ]
— 29,000 feet? What the hell is at 29,000 feet?
— We're headed straight for the north face of Mount Everest, Mr. Anheuser. And if we can't start our engines, we will not survive the impact.
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