“The Ninth Configuration” quotes

“In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the ninth configuration. But given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would have taken for just one of these protein molecules to appear entirely by chance? Roughly ten to the two hundred and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Stacy Keach - Col. Vincent Kane

“If God existed, He's a fake. Or, more likely, a foot. A giant, all-powerful, all-knowing foot!”
Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

“- Colonel Kane: You're convinced that God is dead because there's evil in the world.
- Captain Cutshaw: Correct.
- Colonel Kane: Then why don't you think He's alive because of the goodness in the world?”
Stacy Keach - Col. Vincent Kane
Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

“- Lt. Frankie Reno: Why are you teaching the dogs Shakespeare?
- Colonel Kane: Someone's got to do it.”
Jason Miller - Lt. Frankie Reno
Stacy Keach - Col. Vincent Kane

“- Colonel Kane: Maybe we're just fish out of water.
- Col. Richard Fell: What was that?
- Colonel Kane: I just think about sickness, cancer in children, earthquakes, war, painful death. Death, just death. If these things are just part of our natural environment why do we think of them as evil? Why do they horrify us so? Unless we were meant for...” (continue)(continue reading)
Stacy Keach - Col. Vincent Kane
Ed Flanders - Col. Richard Fell

“Infinite goodness is creating a being you know, in advance, is going to complain.”

Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

“- Captain Cutshaw: Can you prove there's a foot?
- Colonel Kane: There are some arguments from reason.
- Captain Cutshaw: Are those the things we use to justify dropping atomic bombs on Japan?”
Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw
Stacy Keach - Col. Vincent Kane

“See the stars? So cold, so far, and so very lonely. Oh, so lonely. All that space... just... empty space. And so far from home. I've circled round and round this house, orbit after orbit. Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like never to stop, and circle alone up there forever. And what if I got there - got to the moon - and couldn't get back? Sure,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

I don't belong to the "God Is Alive And Hiding In Argentina" club, but I believe in the devil, all right. You know why? Because the prick keeps doing commercials!
Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

“Show me a Catholic, and I'll show you a junkie.”

Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

“You're so dumb you're adorable.”

Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

“I know my rights, I demand to see my urologist.”
Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

“I think the end of the world just came for that bag of Fritos I had in my pants pocket.”
Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

“- Captain Cutshaw: Take me to the beach.
- Colonel Kane: It's night, and it's raining.
- Captain Cutshaw: I see you're determined to start an argument.”
Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw
Stacy Keach - Col. Vincent Kane