# Compendium of 50's Sci-Fi movie quotes: add yours! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499 "2010-03-06T03:07:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/1 "2010-03-06T03:07:43Z")
Inspired by [this recent thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=553798), I added [The Mole People](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049516/) to my Netflix queue. It had some great lines, including these: > [@](#): > > Dr. Roger Bentley: This one died from a blow from a heavy blunt instrument. > Dr. Jud Bellamin: Well, that’s a sign of a higher civilization. > > Dr. Roger Bentley: I don’t like mushrooms. > Dr. Jud Bellamin: Last night we had cave rat for dinner. I’m sure you have some favorite lines from the golden age of Sci-Fi movies…here’s your chance to share! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/2 "2010-03-06T03:17:14Z")
Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothin’. Nothin’ to do but throw rocks at tin cans, and we gotta bring our own tin cans. Cookie on Forbidden Planet ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/3 "2010-03-06T03:37:01Z")
“Them! Them!” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/4 "2010-03-06T03:45:13Z")
[Forbidden Planet](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/quotes) does have a nice quotes page. Commander John J. Adams: "Nice climate you have here. High oxygen content. " Robby the Robot: "I seldom use it myself, sir. It promotes rust. " “Monsters, John. Monsters from the Id.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/5 "2010-03-06T03:48:53Z")
From _Invasion Of The Saucer Men_ (1957): A couple of teenagers run over an alien. They ran to find a telephone or something, and when they got back to the car they saw aliens bashing it. When the cops showed up they found a human body. The kids figured out that the aliens bashed the car so as to make it look as if they’d hit a human. ‘And we thought they were mad at the car!’ ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/6 "2010-03-06T05:51:42Z")
“Whmmmmmm–ping, Whmmmmmm–ping, Whmmmmmm–ping, …” From a whole lot them! ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/7 "2010-03-06T10:49:03Z")
“Your race has no women. It can’t have children. It will die out!” **I Married a Monster from Outer Space** ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/8 "2010-03-06T11:16:58Z")
**The Thing from Another World** Lt. Ken McPherson: What if he can read our minds? Eddie: He’ll be real mad when he gets to me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/9 "2010-03-06T17:00:38Z")
“Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.” - Plan 9 From Outer Space ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/10 "2010-03-06T17:35:26Z")
Also from _Plan 9_: ‘You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!’ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/11 "2010-03-06T17:40:33Z")
The DVD of _The Mole People_ also has the classic (?) _Tarantula_… > [@](#): > > \*Prof. Gerald Deemer: Our business is the future. No man can do it on his own, of course. You don’t pull it out of your hat like a magician’s rabbit. > > Stephanie ‘Steve’ Clayton: You make it sound so creepy. > Dr. Matt Hastings: The unknown always is. > > Stephanie ‘Steve’ Clayton: I think I’ve had enough of the unknown for one afternoon. \* ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/12 "2010-03-06T17:42:54Z")
_The Day The Earth Stood Still_ (1951): ‘Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!’ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/13 "2010-03-06T17:54:39Z")
**On The Beach** (1959): 'It’s all over now, isn’t it? 'Yes, it’s all over. ’ **This Island Earth** (1955): ‘It’s only Neutron. We call him that because he’s so positive.’ **The Blob** (1958): ‘What is it?’ 'I don’t know, but one thing’s for certain, if it can kill Doctor Hallen it can kill somebody else. ’ **20 Million Miles to Earth** (1957): ‘Why is it always, always so costly for Man to move from the present to the future?’ ---
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“If he’s seeing monsters, he’s had too much saki.”- **Godzilla** ---
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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Also from _Plan 9_: ‘You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!’ Beat me to this one. Although his previous line is also good. ‘A beam of sunlight is made up of many atoms!’ ---
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"They’re here already! You’re next! You’re next, You’re next…! " Stanley Driscoll: Is the baby asleep yet, Sally? Nurse Sally Withers: No, but she will be soon. And there’ll be no more tears. **Invasion of the Body Snatchers** , of course ---
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> [@blondebear](#): > > The DVD of _The Mole People_ also has the classic (?) _Tarantula_… I’ll bet you already know this, but… check out the ending of Tarantula. The jet pilot who napalms the spider is non other than Clint Eastwood. I don’t remember if you can see his face behind the oxygen mask. **IF** I remember correctly, this was his very first appearance in a movie; his first speaking appearance followed in The Creature Walks Among Us. I might have them switched. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/18 "2010-03-07T00:11:45Z")
No, Eastwood is unrecognizable. He supposedly have a line, but it’s hard to tell if it’s him or just a voiceover. And **[Tarantula](http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com/2009/06/tarantula.html)** is a pretty good movie overall – another Jack Arnold classic. “Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you’re three feet tall.” ---
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Another line from **The Thing** , when one of the scientists explains that the Thing is more vegetable than animal, a reporter says "An intellectual carrot. The mind boggles. " ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499/20 "2010-03-07T00:47:40Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > No, Eastwood is unrecognizable. He supposedly have a line, but it’s hard to tell if it’s him or just a voiceover. Yeah, Clint has that oxygen mask-thing over the bottom half of his face, you can’t tell if he’s really speaking or not. It does kind of sound like his voice, though. I was reading the bio of Tarantula’s lovely co-star, [Mara Corday](http://www.spookytoms.com/Mara_Corday_Tribute.html), and was delighted to see that she became friends with Eastwood and had parts in some of his later movies. But, back to the topic at hand…_The Tingler_ isn’t strictly Sci-Fi, but I figure we can stretch the category a bit: > [@](#): > > \*Dr. Warren Chapin: The walls! The walls! The walls! The walls! > > Dr. Warren Chapin: It’s an ugly and dangerous thing-ugly because it’s the creation of man’s fear; dangerous because… because a frightened man is dangerous. > > Isabel Stevens Chapin: Let’s celebrate! Your finding the tingler…and me.\* [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compendium-of-50s-sci-fi-movie-quotes-add-yours/531499.md?page=2)