The Day After Tomorrow (2004) quotes

Director
Roland Emmerich.

Cast
Dennis Quaid.
Jake Gyllenhaal.
Emmy Rossum.

Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City, to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.

I’m not angry. I’m disappointed.
– Jack Hall
Do you wanna hear my side of it?
– Sam Hall
Sam, how can there be two sides?
– Jack 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.
– Sam Hall
Why not?
– Jack Hall
I do them in my head.
– Sam Hall
Did you tell him that?
– Jack Hall
I did. He didn’t believe me. He said if he couldn’t do them in his head then I must be cheating.
– Sam Hall
Well, that’s ridiculous! How can he fail you for being smarter than he is?
– Jack Hall
That’s what I said.
– Sam Hall
You did? How’d he take it?
– Jack Hall
He flunked me, remember?
– Sam Hall

Maybe you should have somebody help with that, you know?
– Library Security Guard
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.
– Brian Parks
…I’ll just leave you alone to work on it, then.
– Library Security Guard

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

Professor, it’s time you got out of there.
– Jack Hall
I’m afraid that time has come and gone, my friend.
– Terry Rapson
What can we do?
– Jack Hall
Save as many as you can.
– Terry Rapson

What do you think’s going to happen to us?
– Jason Evans
What do you mean?
– Jack Hall
I mean “us”? Civilization? Everyone?
– Jason Evans
Mankind survived the last ice age. We’re certainly capable of surviving this one. All depends on whether or not we’re able to learn from our mistakes?
– Jack Hall

I’ve got one. Your favorite vacation?
– Laura Chapman
Besides this one?
– Sam Hall

Friedrich Nietzsche! We cannot burn Friedrich Nietzsche; he was the most important thinker of 19th Century!
– Jeremy
Oh, please! Nietzsche was a chauvinist pig, who was in love with his sister.
– Elsa
He was not a chauvinist pig.
– Jeremy
But he was in love with his sister.
– Elsa
Uh… ‘scuse me? You guys? Yeah… there’s a whole section on tax law down here that we can burn.
– Brian Parks

Have you ever seen the air so clear?
– Parker

I’m fine… s’can’t sleep… My mind keeps going over all those worthless Decathlon facts.
– Laura Chapman
Mm.
– Sam Hall
‘S pretty stupid, huh?
– Laura Chapman
No, it’s alright. I guess you just haven’t had time to adjust yet.
– Sam Hall
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.
– Laura Chapman
No, no… No I just, I just said that to avoid admitting the truth.
– Sam Hall
The truth about what?
– Laura Chapman
…About w-why I joined the team… I joined it because of you.
– Sam Hall

Okay. What happened?
– Jason Evans
Well, we had to get inside in kind of a hurry, so I sort of pushed you in.
– Jack Hall
I should be used to you pushing me around.
– Jason Evans

What exactly are you proposing, Professor?
– President Blake
Evacuate everyone South of that line.
– Jack Hall
What about the people in the North?
– President Blake
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.
– Jack Hall

When this storm is over, we’ll be in a new ice age.
– Jack Hall
My God.
– Terry Rapson

I just wish I could have seen him grow up, you know.
– Simon
The important thing is he will grow up.
– Terry Rapson
Amen!
– Dennis

I know you have an innate talent for rubbing people the wrong way, Jack, but why for the Love of God would you aggravate the Vice President?
– Parker
Because my seventeen year old kid knows more science than he does.
– Jack Hall
Perhaps, but your seventeen year old kid doesn’t control our budget. It doesn’t matter if HE hates you.
– Parker
My son doesn’t hate me.
– Jack Hall

I thought you said it was too dangerous to go outside.
– Jeremy
I know I did.
– Sam Hall

Let’s go! Pull, Brian! Take the medicine to Laura. Come on! We’re almost there. Come on. Brian, close the door!
– Sam Hall

Books can be good for something other than burning.
– Judith

What’s happening?
– Jason Evans
The whole damn shelf is breaking off!
– Frank Harris

Australia just saw the largest typhoon ever reported!
– Jack Hall

Hello, professor. How was India?
– Simon
Oh, you know what these scientific gatherings are. All dancing girls, wine and parties.
– Terry Rapson

I think we are on the verge of a major climate shift!
– Jack Hall

The government has to start making long term preparations now.
– Jack Hall
Jack, all you have is a theory.
– Gomez

Booker! What’s going on, here?
– Gomez
They just issued a tornado warning in Los Angeles.
– Booker