Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Davluri: SierraJim, have you accounted for the variable sidecut, flex and rocker design in your ski recommendation program?
SierraJim: Finndog cannot give me exact figures, Dave so... I will make a guess.
Davluri: A guess? You, Jim? That's extraordinary.
SierraJim: [
to Philpug] I don't think he understands.
Philpug: No, SJ. He means that he feels safer about your guesses than most other people's facts.
SierraJim: Then you're saying,
[
pause]
SierraJim: It is a compliment?
Philpug: It is.
SierraJim: Ah. Then, I will try to make the best guess I can.
Wedding Crashers:
FairtoMiddlin: Philpug, I'm FairtoMiddlin.
Philpug: Hi, Jonathan.
FTM: I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your overview of the 2013 Nordica "Black Series" of skis
Philpug: You've read my overview?
FTM: I read it while I was riding the single chair at Mad River Glen.
Philpug: A skier? Good man! Take a seat. You didn't happen to catch my review comparing the most influential bindings of the modern era did you?
FTM: Are you kidding me? I thought it was great! Your argument for the single pivot vs multi directional toe was genius. Now if we could just get DIN not to be so short-sighted.
Philpug: Yes! Well put. Short-sighted. Jon, what d'you say we head onto the deck and pour a couple of martinis?
FTM: Vodka?
Philpug: Yeah.
:
FTM Why not?
Bottle Shock:
Weems: "Skis are sunlight, held together by epoxy." The poetic wisdom of the Italian racer, philosopher, and stargazer, Alberto Tomba. It all begins with the wood, metal and base material. The smell of the wax - like inhaling birth. It awakens some ancestral, some primordial... anyway, some deeply imprinted, and probably subconscious place in my soul.
Annie Hall...
Duane: Can I confess something? I tell you this as a skier, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm skiing... on the trail at night... I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the skis quickly, head-on into the groomer. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of bindings releasing. The... flames rising out of the flowing gasoline.
Alvy Singer: Right. Well, I have to - I have to go now, Duane, because I, I'm due back at the base lodge.
Annie Hall..
Doctor in Tahoe: Why are you depressed, Alvy?
Alvy's Mom: Tell Dr. Flicker.
[
Young Alvy sits, his head down - his mother answers for him]
Alvy's Mom: It's something he read.
Doctor in Tahoe: Something he read, huh?
Alvy at 9: [
his head still down] The Park City is expanding.
Doctor in Tahoe: Park City is expanding?
Alvy at 9: Well, Vail is everything, and if it's expanding, someday it will break apart and that would be the end of everything!
Alvy's Mom: What is that your business?
[
she turns back to the doctor]
Alvy's Mom: He stopped tuning his skis!
Alvy at 9: What's the point?
Alvy's Mom: What has Park City got to do with it? You're here in Tahoe! Tahoe is not expanding!
Doctor in Tahoe: It won't be expanding for billions of years yet, Alvy. And we've gotta try to enjoy ourselves while we're here!
Annie Hall again...
Philpug: [
the man behind him in line is talking loudly] What I wouldn't give for a large ski sock with binding screws in it!
Philpug: [
to audience] Whaddya do when you get stuck in a lift line with a guy like this behind you?
Man in Lift Line: Wait a minute, why can't I give my opinion? It's a free country!
Philpug: He can give it... do you have to give it so loud? I mean, aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that? And the funny part of it is, Richard Spademan, you don't know anything about Richard Spademan!
Man in Lift Line: Oh, really? Well, it just so happens I teach a class at Sierra Nevada called "Bindings, Release and Retention" So I think my insights into Dr. Spademan, well, have a great deal of validity!
Philpug: Oh, do ya? Well, that's funny, because I happen to have Dr. Spademan right here, so, so, yeah, just let me...
[
pulls Spademan out from behind a nearby poster]
Philpugr: come over here for a second... tell him!
Richard Spademan: I heard what you were saying! You know nothing of my work! You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing!
Philpug: Boy, if life were only like this!
A few from Independence Day...
President Thomas Whitmore: I don't understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this?
Julius Levinson: You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a footbed, $30,000 on a a pair of bindings, do you?
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Julius Levinson: If you're so smart, tell me something, how come you go to M.I.T. for 8 years to become a ski instructor?
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Albert Nimzicki: [
Levinson has invited him to pray] I'm not a skier.
Julius Levinson: Nobody's perfect.
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Julius Levinson: Everyone's trying to get out of Tahoe, and we're the only schmucks trying to get in.
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Jasmine Dubrow: There you go, thinking you're all that. But you are not as good of a skier as you think you are, sir.
Captain Steven Hiller: Yes, I am.
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President Thomas Whitmore: What do you want us to do?
Captured Alien: Ski. Ski.
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Julius Levinson: It's the Jackson Hole Tram, for crying out loud, and still he gets sick!
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Dr. Okun: [
before showing the skiers to the President McConkey] This is the Funitel. Or as some of us like to call it: The Freak Show.
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David Levinson: Hey, you have any idea how long it takes for those bindings to release?
Julius Levinson: If you don't ski soon, I'm gonna start to release.
Annie Hall:
Alvie: Don't knock the single chair at Mad River, it's riding the lift with someone you love.
Mystery Men:
RX2Ski: Ah, the old Training Hill. Just as I left it.
Phil P.: You been locked up for twenty years, Karen. A lot of things have changed since then.
RX2ski: It must have been hard for you, Phil, the way times and styles have changed... hearing the people say that Ballet is dead...
Phil P.: Ballet is not dead! Ballet is LIFE!
RX2ski: Yes, Phil! That is the passion I remember! Stick with me, Phil, and you will spin again... when I rule this forum.