“- 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

“- Young Bobby Boucher: Mama, when did Ben Franklin invent electricity?
- Helen 'Mama' Boucher: That's nonsense, I invented electricity. Ben Franklin is the Devil!”
Jamie Williams - Young Bobby Boucher
Kathy Bates - Helen 'Mama' Boucher

“Did I ever tell you about the time I invented snowboarding? I don't want credit for it, but they just keep giving it to me.”
David Koechner - Stumpy

“Medical books aren't written about losers!”
Laurence Fishburne - Thrax

“I often wonder that history should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.”
Frances O'Connor - Fanny Price