George Bailey: Help me Clarence! I want to live again. Please God let me live again...

Albert: So if you're aware you exist, then you do. That's why you're still here.

Chris Nielsen: Where is God in all of this?

Albert: Oh, He's up there. Somewhere... shouting down that He loves us. Wondering why we can't hear Him. You think?

Chris Nielsen: What some folks call impossible, is just stuff they haven't seen before.

Albert: Thought is real. Physical is the illusion. Ironic, huh ?

Chris Nielsen: A whole human life is just a heartbeat here in Heaven. Then we'll all be together forever.

Albert: Are you losing your fear?

Chris Nielsen: Fear?

Albert: That you disappeared? You didn't, you only died.

Jill: <stares at Harmonica from her window> Cheyenne. What's he waiting for out there? What's he doing?

Cheyenne: He's whittling on a piece of wood. I got a feeling that when he stops whittling, something's gonna happen.

Harmonica: When you hear a strange sound, drop to the ground.

Dr. Arnold Mayer: <Addressing a lecture hall audience, possibly at the United Nations:

"We've talked about quarks and anti-neutrinos. But, what about people? It's quite a step from demonstrating that sub-atomic particles can travel backward through time to saying that people can. What would be the result of people traveling in time? For one thing, paradoxes become possible. Say you build a time machine, go back and murder your father when he was ten years old. That means you were never born. And if you weren't, how did you build the time machine? It's the possibility of paradoxes that make most people rule out time-travel by human beings. Still, why not? If you were careful, you could do it. You would not go back to kill Adolf Hitler, much as you might like to, 'cause it would change history. A time-traveler would have to be careful, but he could do a surprising number of things. He could observe, for one. He could find out once and for all who was on the grassy knoll that day in Dallas. And he will know what we can only guess at... that we are destroying the planet we live on by complacency. He will have to live with our legacy of pollution & acid rain. Our negligence today is producing a world in which our children's children will be barren, and the human race heading towards extinction. He could also take things, providing they wouldn't be missed: a cup of water from the Pacific Ocean, a stone from the Grand Canyon. This may sound pointless, but sometimes very small differences can be crucial. The difference between a dead man and a man who's alive can be very small. What about a man who's about to die... a man no one will ever see alive again? This is the hard part about looking for time travelers: they don't want to be found. You must look for them in places where no one is. Or where there are people no one will ever see alive again."

 Manbird wrote:

that's where george harrison got that!

"Whaaaa wha wha wha whaaaaaa wha wahhh wha wahhhhhhaaaaa
whaaaaaa wha wahhh wha wahhhhhhaaaaa wha wha wha whaaaaaa!"

Snackless Jones the Crybaby of Peru

"Don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to."

"Hey, hey, hey — don't be mean. We don't have to be mean. 'Cause, remember: no matter where you go... there you are."

                                                                                                   - Buckarool Banzai's Adventures Across the 8th Dimension

Dr. Arnold Mayer: <Addressing a lecture hall audience, possibly at the United Nations> We've talked about quarks and anti-neutrinos. But, what about people? It's quite a step from demonstrating that sub-atomic particles can travel backward through time to saying that people can. What would be the result of people traveling in time? For one thing, paradoxes become possible. Say you build a time machine, go back and murder your father when he was ten years old. That means you were never born. And if you weren't, how did you build the time machine? It's the possibility of paradoxes that make most people rule out time-travel by human beings. Still, why not? If you were careful, you could do it. You would not go back to kill Adolf Hitler, much as you might like to, 'cause it would change history. A time-traveler would have to be careful, but he could do a surprising number of things. He could observe, for one. He could find out once and for all who was on the grassy knoll that day in Dallas. And he will know what we can only guess at... that we are destroying the planet we live on by complacency. He will have to live with our legacy of pollution & acid rain. Our negligence today is producing a world in which our children's children will be barren, and the human race heading towards extinction. He could also take things, providing they wouldn't be missed: a cup of water from the Pacific Ocean, a stone from the Grand Canyon. This may sound pointless, but sometimes very small differences can be crucial. The difference between a dead man and a man who's alive can be very small. What about a man who's about to die... a man no one will ever see alive again? This is the hard part about looking for time travelers: they don't want to be found. You must look for them in places where no one is. Or where there are people no one will ever see alive again.

Mac: Where's the door here?
Gordon: There is no door. Just knock on the window.
Mac: How do you do business with a man who has no door?
Victor: The ethics are just the same.
                                                         - Local Hero (1983)