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The Thing from Another World (1951) More at IMDbPro »

Ned "Scotty" Scott: So few people can boast that they've lost a flying saucer and a man from Mars -all in the same day! Wonder what they'd have done to Columbus if he'd discovered America, and then mislaid it.

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Ned "Scotty" Scott: An intellectual carrot. The mind boggles.

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Dr. Arthur Carrington: There are no enemies in science, only phenomena to be studied.

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Dr. Arthur Carrington: Knowledge is more important than life.

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Dr. Arthur Carrington: [about the carrot] Its development was not handicapped by emotional or sexual factors.

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[last lines]
Ned "Scotty" Scott: Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!

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Ned "Scotty" Scott: Please doctor, I've got to ask this. It sounds like, well, just as though you're describing some form of super carrot.

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Lt. Ken McPherson: What if he can read our minds?
Eddie: He'll be real mad when he gets to me.

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[referring to McPherson's gun]
Ned "Scotty" Scott: You sure you know how to use that thing?
Lt. Ken McPherson: I saw Gary Cooper in "Sergeant York."

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Ned "Scotty" Scott: Think of what it means to the world!
Hendry: I'm not working for the world. I'm working for the Air Force.

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Ned "Scotty" Scott: Dr. Carrington, you're a man who won the Nobel Prize. You've received every kind of international kudos a scientist can attain. If you were for sale I could get a million bucks for you from any foreign government. I'm not, therefore, gonna stick my neck out and say you're stuffed absolutely clean full of wild blueberry muffins, but I promise my readers are gonna think so.

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Dr. Chapman: Find anything, Captain?
Hendry: Not a sign. We poked into every snowbank within miles.
Bob, Crew Chief: Barnes flushed a polar bear.
Cpl. Barnes: Sure did.
Dr. Chapman: Scare you?
Cpl. Barnes: Not after I saw it was only a bear.

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Nikki: Say that again!
[She observes cold breath coming out of Scotty's mouth]
Ned "Scotty" Scott: Oh Nikki, not you, too!
Nikki: No, silly, your breath!
Ned "Scotty" Scott: Well, I'm sorry, but I've been under a great deal of strain lately!
Nikki: Oh, you ninny, look!

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Dr. Arthur Carrington: We owe it to the brain of our species to stand here and die... without destroying a source of wisdom.

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[after a quick encounter with the Thing]
Hendry: Did you get your picture?
Ned "Scotty" Scott: No, you were in the way and the door wasn't open long enough.
Hendry: You want us to open it again?
Ned "Scotty" Scott: NO!

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Ned "Scotty" Scott: Here's the sixty-four dollar question - what do you do with a vegetable?
Nikki: Boil it.
Ned "Scotty" Scott: What did you say?
Nikki: Boil it... bake it... stew it... fry it?

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Ned "Scotty" Scott: What if we haven't enough voltage?
Hendry: Just keep swinging at its arms.

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Dr. Arthur Carrington: No pleasure, no pain... no emotion, no heart. Our superior in every way.

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[repeated line]
Nikki: Who wants some coffee?

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Brig. Gen. Fogarty: Close the door!

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