“- Will Parker: My God, we'll never catch them now!
- Kate Bass: We have to put up the whomper!
- Will Parker: The what?
- Kate Bass: The whomper! We're going to put it up, it's going to be whomp, and we are going to get back in the God damn race... do you trust me you pea-brain nincompoop?”
Matthew Modine - Will Parker
Jennifer Grey - Kate Bass

“The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.”

Sir Charlie Chaplin - Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania

“You said you had some gas that'd make me fly. Show me.”

Bobby Jordan - Joe "Joey" Dingle

“He broke a blood vessel because he found his name was omitted from the Encyclopedia of Britannica, because thirty pages were devoted to Thomas Alva Edison, seventeen to Alexander Graham Bell, but not one line to Daniel S. Totten, the inventor of the electric toaster.”

Mary Field - Miss Totten

“- Wallace Wooley: I'm afraid you've got a hangover.
- Daniel: Don't tell me what I've got! I invented the hangover. It was in 1892... B.C.”
Fredric March - Wallace Wooley
Cecil Kellaway - Daniel